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Re: Update news on BrickShelf.com
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Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:51:59 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Abner Finley wrote:
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UPDATE NEWS on BrickShelf.com
According to the mainpage of BRICKSHELF.com as if 9:25pm CST July 19, 2007
“Notice: Brickshelf will not be shutting down!
We will be offering “featured” accounts for $5/month shortly.
We have received hundreds of supportive emails in the past few days including
many who said they would like to contribute financially but did not know how.
This has had us rethink the practicality of charging for enhanced features.We
plan to do this without reducing current functionality for free users. Thank
you for your enormous show of support. IMPORTANT: do NOT try to download the
entire site, it causes major problems, slows things down for normal users and
you will be permanently blocked. We will make older folders public again
after we see the crawlers go away.”
-Abner
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I’ve been busy and pretty much unable to post for most of the BS ‘drama’ but
would like to chime in now. Firstly I’d like to extend my thanks to Kevin for
providing this service for so long. It has been one of the ‘constants’ in the
AFOL community and has been of great service. Furthermore I’m extremely glad
that Kevin has decided to bring it back with a new model. I’m sorry I haven’t
had time to write this elsewhere but it’s been a difficult time for decent
computer access.
One thing that does worry me about the new system is this part of the message:
‘without reducing functionality for free users’. The current system for free
users wastes disk space and bandwidth, as well as the nerves and time of people
using BS. Without a change to this system I would find it hard to justify me
paying $60US a year in order to allow these idiots to waste my time (and up
until this point I have been donating regularly so I’m not just trying to be
cheap).
This is not really a criticism of Kevin as he has made a system which allows
people to post what they like. This system has, unfortunately, been abused (and
that abuse supported to a degree) by ignorance, laziness and stupidity. I would
really like to see free users forbidden from uploading any images with a
filesize greater than 256Kb. That size still allows people to post accurate and
clear images of their work but stops the pointless 2048x1568 barely compressed
straight-from-the-camera rubbish that everyone I have spoken to about it are
sick of.
Please, please, please let this be done as a service for all users, paying or
otherwise, and if not for them as a service to BS itself to reduce its costs.
Tim
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) I tend to agree with Tim. Limit free users to X amount of space. Disallow .bmp files. Maybe add some new functionalities for featured account holders. I'll be one of them. JOHN (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Tim, I have to disagree with a blanket restriction regarding filesize restrictions for images. While a 256K limit is fine for single MOCs (like your dazzling creations), it can be inadequate for other things like train displays and larger MOCs (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Update news on BrickShelf.com
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| (...) Tim: What is considered a valid file size/resolution for BS pics? I've always kinda wondered what I should resize to for BS. I usually upload at 1024x768, but sometimes 1600x1200 if I really want people to see fine detail. Is this too big? I (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Update news on BrickShelf.com
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| UPDATE NEWS on BrickShelf.com According to the mainpage of BRICKSHELF.com as if 9:25pm CST July 19, 2007 "Notice: Brickshelf will not be shutting down! We will be offering "featured" accounts for $5/month shortly. We have received hundreds of (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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