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| Someone brought this up at BrickFest PDX and others agreed it would be an excellent idea: Rather than mainly linking to internal LUGNET resources, the first thing someone should see when they visit the LUGNET homepage is iconic links to other major (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) why don't you guys just take over WorldLUG. I'll give you the whole architecture. Anybody can develop any module in any language, plus you can syndicate all the content out to people's sites using XML/SOAP/RSS etc. jus email me if you want, (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) Nah, you can draw on a post-it note. You can even use colored pencils. :) What I mean by "post-it note style" is that there's a big, grid-like board, and conversation happens by people coming and putting a note into the general area of the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) I'm a professional Software Engineer with 3 years of PHP and mysql experience, were I to log in and discover poorly commented, badly structured, inefficent code I don't think I'd laugh, I think I'd fix it. As a community, I think you are (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) Icky. What about when amatures come in and write code that is... laughable... at best. Then you have a website made of mangled, chaotic code that definetly does not help the community at all. Poor commenting, bad structure, inefficent (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) 1) That the site software will be published under an Open Source license. 2) That the content (or at least as much as possible of it) will be available as a whole under an Open Source license. 3) Probably also that we will set up a formal (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) Without saying that you are wrong in that assessment, let me ask on what basis do you make that claim? If Lugnet is the final answer, why do other sites start? Do those that prefer it do so simply because Lugnet is all they know? Is it really (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) * big big big snip * (...) I hadn't actually intended to weigh the pros and cons of text vs. graphical community systems; what I was really trying to get across was there are different presentations for different audiences. The audience of (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| Hello! (...) Well, most AFOLs already have been LEGO fans as kids and - after a periode of neglecting the brick, the so called 'dark ages' - found back to their old love. That means: For the purpose of growing hard core LEGO fans it's necassary to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) Well, heck, maybe I'm confused and that confused you in turn. I don't spend that much time at the two levels you mention at C-C, so they don't bother me. They give me the minimum clutter to move on to where I want to go. Not that I actually go (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) And let me be super-clear here for anyone just jumping in -- Classic-Castle is a nifty site and I have nothing against them. I'm just mentioning their forum as an example. And I understand that phpBB is nice and open source and free and easy (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| [ followup-to .publish.html, since this isn't generally interesting. :) ] (...) And that is indeed why I'm confused. I was referring to the phpBB on Classic-castle in the paragraph you quoted. Like all such BB forums, it basically has a big monotone (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish.html)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) why not just add a few new links/rearranging the front/homepage of LUGnet to make the central portal for the community? Jeff (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) <snip> What exactly does it mean to be "community owned"? Is the site going to be like a WIKI and anyone can change the content? Is there going to be a controlling body (say, for example, of 9 people) who are going to make all the decisions (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| [ -> .org ] (...) So what would be available to not-logged-in users? Greatest common factor? From a pragmatic standpoint, that seems like that'll dramatically chop the usefulness of the site -- imagine if Google only showed Kid-Safe-Verified sites (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) My understanding is that LEGO would like to have a site that they can feel comfortable sending traffic (kids and adults), but which they don't control and aren't responsible for. This site (LEGOFan) could include content (such as offsite (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| [follow-to to .org, since that's where other people seem to be redirecting] (...) It has a really funny "Moderated for safety; Cool!" logo. I printed it out really big for our security team here. :) (URL) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) Perhaps it is time to have another revolution. After all, LUGNET was at least partly founded as a response to user's dissatisfaction with some problems inherent in r.t.l (one of them , ironically, being that r.t.l was too open a system which (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| I really don't have a problem with the community trying to set up a web-site and trying to get the community to come together. I agree (with Terry) that saying that a certain site will be the one-stop shop is insulting. The one point I'd like to (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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| (...) Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the current forum on www.LEGO.com have a pretty hefty amount of modding? I remember reading when I first went there that no links to outside websites would be allowed, and all forum posts would be edited (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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