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In lugnet.admin.curators, Adrian Egli wrote:
> There are people out there (like me) who still post MOCs on LUGNET
> but the way we share our photos has changed the last few years.
Strangely, I never did see LUGNET as a photo-sharing community (not even with
the firm connection to Brickshelf). Most of what I use LUGNET for, well...
doesn't work on Flickr. It's hard to organize a GBC standard, or trash-talk
about a robotic competition (especially from those darn Canadians), or share
coding secrets, or the advantages of certain gearing and geometry combinations,
via pictures... even pictures with comments.
What LUGNET has that Flicker and "niche" sites lack is the overview - for
instance, while this is posted to two groups I don't have a direct connection
to, I still get to see it and react to it... because I "watch" the main feed.
When everybody is elsewhere, in their own little worlds... well, it doesn't
work.
> What killed off RTL nearly a decade ago was the diversity LUGNET
> brought to the niches in the LEGO community...
I thought it was spam and rampant commercial use, but I admit I wasn't around
during the rtl years. There are USENET groups that are still thriving, 20 years
or more after I first joined them. So I'm really not sure everything always
needs to be "updated" to remain alive.
> but my theory of what will kill off LUGNET in the future is its
> inability to "store-photos-and-share-comments" that Flickr is
> providing now.
Maybe. But as I noted, some of us just don't use that service. Or need it.
--
Brian Davis
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