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Sounds bad. I keep local copies of anything I upload on the internet, but a lot of good stuff on there will have been lost if this is genuine. I don't think it was hacked, as the Zerostuds forum went down the same way last year. The general image (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The loss of Brickshelf, even for a temporary period, is a serious loss to the LEGO community. I visit the site every day and depend on it a great deal. Without knowing the circumstances or the facts, some of you have attacked Kevin based on (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If this turns out to be permanent, I am glad that there are alternatives out there. But when I started out here on Lugnet, it was because of Brickshelf. Had I not had a free service with which to use to upload my LEGO related photos, I don't (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) **Snip** (...) **snip** (...) Okay, folks-- Troy: Point made. While I am sad that this service has ended, if someone was running it out of pocket, bless them. I do resent being called a vulture, however--I have said nothing against a man I (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) Pardon me, but if you provide a MAJOR service to a community that a huge number of people use, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS FREE OR NOT, it is pure politeness and respect to GIVE WARNING BEFORE YOU DISCONTINUE SERVICE. Honestly, to do otherwise (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I second that, Thanks Troy. I would say more, but I am currently busy re-uploading pics for my store. I am also happy to pay for the service brickshelf has provided. I assumed that Brickshelf was part of LUGNET, and that my donation was to (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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You and 3/4 of the people on Lugnet. --- Rick (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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It would have been nice if only the accounts of people who didn't donate money to Brickshelf were gone. I imagine that doing that would have reduced the number of files on the site to about 1% of what it was. As a Brickshelf member who donated to (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Looks like it's gone for good... :( I would happily pay a fee (like the Lugnet $10) to be able to post my photos again, if it meant keeping Brickshelf online. Dan and Jennifer, thank you for trying to find a solution with Kevin. Maybe you guys (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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Troy, thank you for posting this - much more eloquently than I would have been able to. Dan (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general) !
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This is not directed at Tim, but rather some of the whiners that responed to his post above... When I first saw that BrickShelf was down, I was all gung-ho to see what I could do to help bring it back up. As the host for Classic-Castle, I do have (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general) !!
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(...) Ack! Not a good thread to walk into... ...Unfortunately, it's not just one's own photos being lost (if this is true). I keep copies of my MOC images on CD ROM, and recent ones on my hard drive. But that doesn't save the numerous MOCs of other (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) If Kevin would need Peeron to help with that, it can be done. Keep in mind that Brickshelf proper was a *huge* bandwidth hog - I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was multiple TB/mo. Dan (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) i just sent off an email with the 2 main questions everyone is asking. hopefully we'll get some answers. ondrew p.s. is there anyone who could temporaraly host brickshelf for lets say 2 weeks so people can backup there photos? (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) But would anyone trust another of his sites now? Remember he did the same thing with zerostuds.com - suddenly it was just gone. For a site which he must have known a lot of people check daily and was a cornerstone of the Lego community, this (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Well, if I hacked the site, I think I'd put a message slightly more flamboyant than "Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience". But I am not a h@x0r, so I have no idea what goes on in their heads. ROSCO (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) There was a (URL) thread> a couple of years ago where there was a suggestion on BS to transfer all your images to Maj as BS was shutting down, so that should probably have been taken as a warning. Kevin hasn't mentioned anything about it (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Kevin has almost never communicated with the lego community at all and he's barely updated Brickshelf over the years at all. It looked like it was from 1995. I'm not surprised by this move at all. I'm just hoping it really isn't gone or there (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm glad I kept all my pics--but like Maggie, I have a hard time buying into the theory that someone would just shut 'er down with little/no warning. This has to be a hack job...I hope I'm right about this-- Play Well and Prosper, Matthew "The (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, I can - it would have swamped his server, big time. It's gonna take ages to fix all the links on my web pages, and that's even WITH backups of all my pics. And that's not to mention all the links I have to other people's pics... oh (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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