Comments on: News: Brickshelf gone for good (UPDATE 7/15 PM)

By: Why buying LEGO through the LEGO fan sites you visit is so important [Editorial] | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog

Sun, 02 May 2010 17:51:07 +0000

[...] Realistically, we know that many of us will continue buying LEGO from brick-and-mortar stores — our local independent toy store, Toys R Us, the LEGO Store in the mall, or wherever. But it’s also important that everyone understand how much high-traffic LEGO fans sites like The Brothers Brick, FBTB, and Brickset rely on our readers to pay the bills. Helping to secure some level of financial stability is one way to make sure these community resources don’t go away. [...]

By: Boilerplate & Beyond Vol. 2: Am I doing it for ego? Probably. – Keith Goldman interviews Adrian Drake | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:52:39 +0000

[...] When BrickShelf went down a few years ago it caused panic in the streets of LEGO-town. At the time you spearheaded a drive to [...]

By: How to get blogged on The Brothers Brick, in 3 easy steps [Editorial] | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:32:36 +0000

[...] many features of the modern Web (such as feeds and support for apostrophes), and experienced a major outage in 2007 that caused a mass exodus to other image-hosting and photo-sharing sites. Lack of updates [...]

By: The Brothers Brick turns 3 today! [Editorial] | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:50:59 +0000

[...] community has seen its shares of ups and downs over this past year. We rallied together during the Great Brickshelf Crisis of 2007, and we’ve avoided much of the fragmentation I feared at the time. In addition to blogs and [...]

By: Jesse Malchow

Jesse Malchow — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:48:06 +0000

apparently brickshelf will not close, but they will be charging members money from what I can piece together, they will open when the trollers leave

By: Jesse Malchow

Jesse Malchow — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:35:05 +0000

it seems that brickshelf, though still working, has lost alot of images and only the main page can be displayed

well for me anyways

By: Lego Shark

Lego Shark — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:27:22 +0000

Man… brickshelf.com, i will miss you. I am incredibly glad that maj is still up. i mean, they are pretty much the same thing.

By: John

John — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:29:38 +0000

The user gallery part at brickery.net has been opened. Register for free and create your albums! http://www.brickery.net/

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:41:27 +0000

Well MOCpages is free right?

By: Vidgamer838

Vidgamer838 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:03:09 +0000

I guess Flickr is going to be making a LOT of money this month…

By: Dunechaser

Dunechaser — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:22:11 +0000

Thanks Jesse — I’d forgotten about those who might be subscribed to get e-mail updates on new comments to this post.

By: Jesse Malchow

Jesse Malchow — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:18:13 +0000

brickshelf us up until July 31 of this year, theres even a message on the site, so save while you can

By: ry

ry — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:04:20 +0000

Andrew, thanks for the heads up.

Time to go grab my goods while I still can!

By: smcginnis

smcginnis — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:35:41 +0000

Wow, the CC links are embarrassing, but sadly true…. The only site with multiple locked topics on this. Usually CC’s rather reasonable. :?

~smcginnis

By: Ty

Ty — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:23:00 +0000

There is a (very short) reaction on my blog. It’s kinda dumb though.