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After a 5 year vacation from lego I am trying to catch up. I've already skimmed the LDraw site, BayLug, Brickshelf, BrickLink, Shipyard, and Moonbase. I looked at the .space roll call, but it has not been updated since 2003. The .space timeline was (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Always good to see an "old schooler" reappear on the board! Welcome back, Doug! A couple of things have changed since you left. The first is the implimentation of FTX. It's fun; You should try (URL) try it>. Hey, sorry about that last (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason for this? Nothing puerile, I hope. Jim (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Au contraire! It is purely puerile! (and all in good fun:-) TRAINSTRAINSTRAINS! ===...=== JOHN (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) My question was about the reasons for the alluded exodus from .space, of course, not about the content of your post. Jim (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Ahh, well that's a good question to which I haven't the answer. My guess would be that a few of the ringleaders wanted more control over the direction and tone of the NG and the rest just followed the leaders like the mindless lemmings that (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Hi, John. A name I remember. Thanks for the welcome. I trust your train collection continues to thrive and grow? (...) I suspected as much after looking through the archives, checking the traffic report, and visiting classic-space.com. I (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Oh, baby, (URL) does it ever!>:-) I use my LUGNET NG as our web site. No jumping ship, here! (...) One might say that LUGNET is a victim of its own success. It brought us all together, and all of the little sects got together and formed boards (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Impressive as ever. Which reminds me, can lego trains be weatherized (run outdoors)? I have to take that up in .trains (...) From my reading it appears that lugnet went through some management turmoil--unprocessed memberships, infrequent (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Doug Dropeskey wrote: Snip (...) I think it was a bit of both. The community wanted websites with more specialized content. Needs were not being met (articles, chat, easy to join) so other sites were started. (...) Yes. Major (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jim I can't answer for anybody but myself, but the reason I joined CSF (besides the fact that my lugnet account was screwed up at the moment) is that it's so much easier to join and use: you don't have to find the well hidden free (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I must confess that about 13000 of those are my posts. What can I say, I'm a blabbermouth. Aaron (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yep! I believe this graph is in posts per week: (URL) have some data on FBTB, classic-castle, and classic-space as well, but it's quasi-out-of-date as well (Jul 4 2006 - Mar 1 2007). The ballpark estimates (posts per week) from that period (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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(...) - snip - (...) - snip - (...) Yeah, I wouldn't add BZPower, it's really not an AFOL site. But I would consider FBTB an AFOL site, there's a larger percentage of adults there than at BZP, I think. (BTW, BZPower currently gets about 12,000 posts (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow, that's some nice traffic! I remember hunting for some stats and starting to write a slurper, but quickly realized that slurping that much data could be a pretty large hit considering the post volume. I also seem to recall that there was (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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Hey Doug, Welcome back! As others have noted, there has been a proliferation of groups out there. With each new group there has been a renewed discussion of whether or not this is a good thing. As an admin and major poster at Classic-Castle, I'm (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Sure, I sent it off in email a few minutes ago. There are stats back to 2002. - Kelly (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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