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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:56:08 GMT
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Dan Simonson wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.build, Dan Boger wrote:
> > That is
> > one of the main things we hope LEGOFan can improve on.  By making the code that
> > runs the site accessible for anyone to download, modify, and submit updates, we
> > allow a much wider pool of developers to work on the site.
> > 
> > This means, that if someone has a great idea for a new way to, say, track
> > community events, they can just write a module, upload it, and everyone
> > benefits.  Currently, they would have to just go set it up at yet another site,
> > and they would not have any way to integrate with the vast amount of data and
> > code that's already there.
> > 
> > I think that's one point that's being missed here.
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> 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
> programming is what the downfall of this site, LEGOfan.net, may be.

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 underestimating that resources available
to it.

Peter



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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)

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