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Re: Brickshelf empty?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:49:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tobbe Arnesson wrote:
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Seems I was not the only one to leave this place. :(
Can’t see how flickr and possibility to edit posts and masking mail-addresses
can be the reason for this. Does not matter if the system is slightly flawed
if the crowd and quality of builds and posts is maintained.
Did this decline happen suddenly as a reaction to some change (I left partly
due to all the negative energy in here when TLG changed the shade of gray) or
has it been a slow downfall?
Where is everybody now?
To me it seems the quality of the products is still high with the creator
series and others. And I’d personally would love to buy an 8258. :D
Used to “hang” mostly in Technic and lurk in rtlToronto and Mecha. All seems
equally dead. :(
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At Brickworld 2009, the fragmentation of the AFOL online community was the
subject of several discussions. This fact seems to be well-known to AFOLs at
this point. Even the LEGO Community Team knew about this. As you pointed out,
one question is: where has everybody gone, and why? A second question - and the
subject of discussion at Brickworld - was: how can this fragmentation be
addressed?
As to where everyone has gone - I think the most popular answers are Flickr,
Eurobricks, and a few theme-specific sites such as FBTB and Classic-Castle. It
also seems like there are now a million different LEGO blogs - perhaps some fans
are spending their time reading or writing blogs instead of participating in
forums. The bottom line here is that the fan community is no longer centered
around any single site; they are scattered over half a dozen or more different
sites.
In my observation, LUGNET’s traffic underwent a slow - but sustained - decline
to the point where instead of there being regular news to read, you were lucky
to manage a few new posts per day. As new posts waned, so did interest and
traffic - and vice versa. It didn’t seem like there was a mass exodus... just
an ever-increasing lack of new posts.
It’s hard to come up with an answer to the issues of AFOL community
fragmentation. I’m open to suggestions! It seems like LUGNET is a good
resource, and it’s a shame that the community isn’t making better use of it.
-Jordan
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| (...) I think part of the reason why things have fragmented such as they have, but not as a conscious decision by any one group or individual, is the lack of redundancy that is Lugnet. There was a period of time many years ago when Lugnet's server (...) (15 years ago, 16-Jul-09, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Lately I have been posting a lot more on Eurobricks and a lot less on Lugnet mostly because Eurobricks is a LOT easier to post on than Lugnet (like all the times the authentication email takes forever to arrive or worse still, never gets (...) (15 years ago, 17-Jul-09, to lugnet.general)
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| Seems I was not the only one to leave this place. :( Can't see how flickr and possibility to edit posts and masking mail-addresses can be the reason for this. Does not matter if the system is slightly flawed if the crowd and quality of builds and (...) (15 years ago, 16-Jul-09, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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