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Re: The LEGO Company and the North American AFOL
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Date: 
Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:16:05 GMT
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David Koudys wrote:

I know of no direct replacement out there.

Neither do I, but for example the discussion groups at Embarcadero (current
owners of the former Borland Delphi programming tool) are AFAIK using a
standard product, and are usable both on the web and via nntp.
http://edn.embarcadero.com/delphi

which means I see all the latest posts in all threads (mostly just
lugnet automatic updates now 'cause I don't use any filters, either).
But then I can go into my groups, or space or whatever and just read
those...  In any PHPBB or whatever, I have to go into each category
and catch up.

Most every web based board have a page for 'Unread posts' and 'Unread
responses to me' nowadays, but you need to be logged in, of course.
www.eurobricks.com/forum/ is just one example, www.swebrick.se is another.

Moreover, there as no other single website that encompasses all
aspects of the hobby and the AFOL.

Now all these other sites are
'niche'.  I get that--I mean if you're a star wars fan, why do you
want to hear about robots and such...

However, a single point of contact for fans of all genres and all
aspects of this hobby is non-existant now, really.

I'd say neither Eurobricks nor swebrick are 'niche', as far as the content
is concerned. swebrick is definitely niche with respect to language...

A Merry Lego Christmas from Sweden!

--
Anders Isaksson



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  Re: The LEGO Company and the North American AFOL
 
(...) Yep. Many points for improvement (admins are presumably working on it), but I know of no direct replacement out there. I've been to most of the major LEGO discussion groups out there and none of them have the same functionality/versatility and (...) (12 years ago, 21-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)

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