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Re: Coming soon, Free web hosting for MOCs
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Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:02:21 GMT
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> I don?t buy it. Certainly I hope I am wrong but I think this is an elaborate
> hoax ala Mr. Beneke 2000. Too many things just don?t add up for me ? I?ll
> spare the bandwidth.
It's no joke. I'd never ramp up everyone's hopes like that for some kind of
hoax.
MOCpages is something that I've been planning for over a year. That was
when I started noticing (among many other things) the exponential growth in
popularity on Brickshelf, and the growth of visitors and review-writers on
my own web site (www.brickapple.com).
MOCpages is basically an extended, beefed-up version of my personal web
site, which allows site visitors to write reviews, rate my MOCs, etc. My
site didn't have a content management front end, though, which meant adding
new pages was tough for me. So I wanted to build some web-forms for myself
to do so. That way, for example, I could toss up a page while I was at work
as soon as I noticed a brickshelf gallery became moderated. ...Then I
realized that all this could just as easily be generalized to a point that
anyone could make pages in the same manner. That started a recurring notion
in the back of my head that finally emerged as a relational database design
and some mockups last summer.
I've had the time to do the development because I have been out-of-work
since October. (New York City's unemployment is the highest in the country,
especially for the tech market.) So, because I really love web development,
I've been working on MOCpages for about 12 hours a day, 5, 6, or 7 days a
week, for the past 2 months solid. (Plus I spent time on-and-off for about 3
months before that doing the design and planning.) Whew. So, 20,000 lines
of code later, and here we are. :)
( By the way, what is "Mr. Beneke 2000" ? )
> Sean, if you want to change your launch date, I may reconsider.
LOL, oh, I see, April 1st? Well, it's only coincidence, trust me. The
alpha was released and testing began on March 1 by a very tight group of
people (mostly non-lego folk: web techies, usability people, etc). I
scheduled a week and a half for alpha test & fix, and then the rest of the
month will be a public beta. (Thanks to everyone who has volunteered for
the beta so far!)
Anyway, I'll keep you all updated on the progress, starting with a general
announcement when the public beta opens sometime next week. There still may
be a few things missing if I get a lot more bugs back from my Alpha testers,
but so far things are looking good.
Sean
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sean@mocpages.com
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| (...) Well then let this serve as my public apology. I am sorry for doubting this effort. In my defense however past attempts warrant caution at this time of year... (...) This is the more than elaborate April Fools joke of 2000. It is by far the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I don’t buy it. Certainly I hope I am wrong but I think this is an elaborate hoax ala Mr. Beneke 2000. Too many things just don’t add up for me – I’ll spare the bandwidth. Sean, if you want to change your launch date, I may reconsider. -Nick (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.publish)
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