THE CLOSING OF LEGO UNI!

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Intrepid: Those are very good points. Plus, I believe at one point it was mistaken for an official site on either here or BZP. I can't remember exactly what, but someone pretty much said it was official, at the time. But it wasn't. =P

[iratecorpse]

Might be worth reading and taking the following into account:

http://aboutus.lego.com/en-us/corporate/fairplay.aspx

Couldn't see this mentioned in the thread. Hope it helps

Also, I know from personal experience that LEGO's legal department are generally very helpful and happy for LEGO's community to expand and be supported by sites like this.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah, I had mentioned that on the last page, after I had read it. And from the looks of it, they just don't like LEGO in URLs, and using the official logo, in terms of major issues.

[Jpags1234]

Well, that was unexpected. I never thought they would just shut down the sight outright. I wonder if anything could happen to get it back up, get the information back, or anything. Anyway, thanks to Ms.RR for inviting me to this site and hopefully we can get as much of your community back as possible. I know that I'll be spreading the word with people i know in game.

[Dolnor]

How about if they renamed it to EggoUni?  Lego my Eggo? -)

Curse was created in 2001 by a couple in Colorado.  They are the only two employees listed...the husband as the Founder and the wife as the CEO.  I know others work for them but don't know how their employment status is established...volunteer?...consultant?...who knows and I don't care.  I understand why they would shut down rather than enter litigation with LEGO. 

But some warning would have been better to the members of LegoUni.  Something like "Dear LegoUni fans, due to circumstances beyond our current control, LegoUni is going to be put into statis for a while.  Please accept our apologies for this issue.  If you would like to save your posts and/or submitted pictures, please make copies of them now for your archives.  Hopefully after the current situtation is resolved, some form of LegoUni can re-activated in the near future."  Anything other than "pulling the plug" would have been fine. 

I am disappointed but not bitter...time to more forward!  There are some great resources and people here...time to rebuild and make a better home for everyone!


TQQdles™,

Dolnor Numbwit
Eternal Newbie
Always Opinionated!

[MsRowdyRedhead]

PLEASE see updated first post. Thank You!!

[admiraltyphoon]

Too bad that this did happen ..."starts crying"....
Now every one is starting their own forums(musicboy told me that).

[Intrepid]

Too bad that this did happen ..."starts crying"....
Now every one is starting their own forums(musicboy told me that).

Even if a few people branch out and fire up new forums we're at least finding each other again Admiral. There's no problem joining more than one forum if they hold your interest.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Too bad that this did happen ..."starts crying"....
Now every one is starting their own forums(musicboy told me that).

Even if a few people branch out and fire up new forums we're at least finding each other again Admiral. There's no problem joining more than one forum if they hold your interest.

Exactly. Thank you.In fact I was quite distressed yesterday to hear that someone was running around LU saying that I said everyone had to come here...

I was recently berated on Lego Universe by a MLNO member who felt I was undermining the community by not joining that forum, who also stated that the LEGO Uni forum membership was supposed to move to MLNO because that was the official new location, citing MsRR presence there as proof, as well as saying that, as a mod, she had the right to move the community wherever she felt. I know she didn't say this, and I don't suspect she'd agree

There IS no official new location. There are choices, and like a buffet you can pick as many to join as you choose. I love that so many of you have come here, but I would never dissuade anyone from belonging to another forum. I have been here since 2008, and during that time I have also belonged to MLNTips, MHOZ, IBricks/Inzone, UTTA, and MLNTeam, as well as LEGO Uni.  There is a rich resource of venues for thr LEGO community. NONE is the best. It's a matter of where you feel good hanging out, and what suits your needs.

And if anyone tells you I said otherwise, tell him/her I said to come see me. 

[Intrepid]

[rant]I just joined the Luni forum as well because I have a bit of interest in helping with the database stuff they do. To me the 2 forums have different agendas and enthusiasm for me to draw on. And both forums are infinitely better than the LEGO forum which is not an option for me.

When Uni closed down I heard rumors that Choco and Musicboy and Sully are building forums or want to. If that happens I'll probably join them too. Someone ask me if there is a forum war going on and I just can't see that happening just because several people have an interest in building boards. Back in the beginning of the internet anyone with any server space was building a BBS and if you had lots of space you had a ftp address to download binaries (images and midis).

I don't know the facts about Uni shutting down. I loved the place because it was where my mates were. It's no different now. I've made a lot of friends and plan to go where they go; plain as that. In the meantime I've made friends with people like Legodac and Herochild that I'll be following now as well.

Occasionally I hear people talk about forums not being in the real world. Really? So those are bots postings and AI writing me PMs? I have friends I made online years ago playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory that I have traveled thousands of miles to see get married and we still telephone each other often enough to keep the REAL LIFE friendship alive. I have close enough friendships with people like MRR, Sully and Stickboy that there's always a place at my fire for them and there families sight unseen because they've shown me the inside of their hearts and I know them to be good stuff. Yes I'm thankful to this and any forum that allows me to stay connected to my friends of every level.[/rant]

[iratecorpse]

You tell 'em, Intrepid! I mean, I met my girlfriend of 7 years (in July) through playing Worms. Nobody can tell me making friends on the Internet isn't really making friends.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

[rant]I just joined the Luni forum as well because I have a bit of interest in helping with the database stuff they do. To me the 2 forums have different agendas and enthusiasm for me to draw on. And both forums are infinitely better than the LEGO forum which is not an option for me.

When Uni closed down I heard rumors that Choco and Musicboy and Sully are building forums or want to. If that happens I'll probably join them too. Someone ask me if there is a forum war going on and I just can't see that happening just because several people have an interest in building boards. Back in the beginning of the internet anyone with any server space was building a BBS and if you had lots of space you had a ftp address to download binaries (images and midis).

I don't know the facts about Uni shutting down. I loved the place because it was where my mates were. It's no different now. I've made a lot of friends and plan to go where they go; plain as that. In the meantime I've made friends with people like Legodac and Herochild that I'll be following now as well.

Occasionally I hear people talk about forums not being in the real world. Really? So those are bots postings and AI writing me PMs? I have friends I made online years ago playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory that I have traveled thousands of miles to see get married and we still telephone each other often enough to keep the REAL LIFE friendship alive. I have close enough friendships with people like MRR, Sully and Stickboy that there's always a place at my fire for them and there families sight unseen because they've shown me the inside of their hearts and I know them to be good stuff. Yes I'm thankful to this and any forum that allows me to stay connected to my friends of every level.[/rant]

You tell 'em, Intrepid! I mean, I met my girlfriend of 7 years (in July) through playing Worms. Nobody can tell me making friends on the Internet isn't really making friends.

VOTE UP!

[MsRowdyRedhead]

I am partial to the MLNO for obvious reasons, but I am seriously looking forward to the new forum Quetz & Sully are forming.
Why??
Because it is all about the community and supporting the community.
Because it will have more bells and whistles than MLNO (there is only so much you can do with SMF)
Because it is all about the community and supporting the community. yeah, I know I said that once but it bears repeating. Quetz & Sully are not in any kind of competition to grab the most members, they are not focused on anything but SERVING the LEGO UNIVERSE COMMUNITY.
We need a forum that has as its central goal being a gathering place for the community to discuss the game and other things. And when that forum opens I will join and support it in any way I can. Of course, the MLNO will always be my home.
MLNO is in rebuilding mode after a data wipe, and trying to recover the years worth of LU stuff that was not backed up on the SMF servers, and is a bit less organized than we would like to be. In The LU area alone we lost a few dozen topics and hundreds of posts, not to mention the rest of the forum.
MLNTeam has a nice community, but not much activity in the LU area.
Vanish is incredibly generous in starting a forum at lunibook, but his focus has to be on his first love.. the database.
There are a bunch of other forums out there, but I do not know the staff, or who has access to ip, email and other info, so I probably won't be joining them.

One critical thing to keep in mind is to stay connected until the new forum is up.
No one is restricted to belonging to only ONE forum.
Until LEGOUni closed I was on the staff of a couple. I also support BZP, and a few other forums.
There is good stuff to be said and read everywhere. Lets not loose sight of that and scatter to the winds.

lastly, a note to Sully & Quetz... please open soon!!

[JediGuineaPig]

curse has put up a maintenance notice now
http://www.legouni.com/

We are continuing to work on bringing our affected websites online. We are completing an update to our hardware infrastructure that will allow us to bring the websites online as early as Saturday. We are thankful for your patience and understanding during this trying time, and are aware of the inconvenience this has caused. Please know we are doing everything in our power to correct the hardware malfunction that lead to this downtime.

just thought i would mention it........

[MsRowdyRedhead]

I wonder what changes they will have made.....

[JediGuineaPig]

it turns out over the past day many curse sites have been displaying that message after curse experienced a hardware failure.
looks like LEGOuni wont be coming back after all.... unless they accidentally reload it in the rush to get the other sites up.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Yeah.. Sully pointed that out to me.

But you know what?? I don't miss it so much anymore.. most of my friends are here or at other forums where I can find them.