Basically, we’ve owned up to our past stubbornness. The change isn’t just with the site, it’s also with our attitude as a staff.

I also know that the present moderators of FBTB haven’t keen on critisism on their moderating, to say the least, which is a real shame and makes any discussion about views on their moderation next to impossible.

Still, I have never left FBTB; my interest in SW Lego is still strong, and I am a firm believer in “panta rei”: all things change, and so of course I once again have joined FBTB, keen to see if there really will be a change in the direction and moderation of FBTB.

Brothers-Brick is actually the only English LEGO site I check on a normal basis, it’s normally not a mess of wacko comments.

Eurobricks is the same as FBTB, it was run by 13 year olds, and the founder of the site, who left and I forgot his name, was frankly an ass. Now they try this 18 year old rule, but the site is still a mess. I only go their for leaked pictures, but they are even cutting back on that.

Brickset is the same way it’s Star Wars 10 year old freaks who think the prequels are wonderful, and the older ones are like black and white silent movies. Plus I would love if Huw could actually make rules that even he/she would follow, “We won’t post leak pictures, we will, we won’t….”, can’t make up his mind.

95% of LEGO sites are just jokes with children yelling at each other over stupid little things, and the mods just stand there and don’t care at all.

I can’t remember specifically when I first registered on FBTB (at least as early as 2002), but I was very active there until 2004-2005. The main reason I left was the same reason we instituted our new leak policy and Terms of Service here on The Brothers Brick recently — I felt that the “level of discourse” had fallen dramatically, driven largely by a huge influx of younger LEGO Star Wars fans — many of whom didn’t actually build anything, making that incarnation of FBTB a community of chatterboxes, rather than LEGO builders. In parallel with that shift, my own interest in LEGO Star Wars waned (thank you crappy prequals!).

I know that there are other “FBTB diaspora” out there who share my experience.

This reset (“FBTB 3.0″), coupled with the addition of Indiana Jones and other newer licensed themes, has the potential to address both of these main reasons I left FBTB. I’m curious to know what others think, and whether this holds true over the long run.

Again, huge kudos to Ace Kim and the rest of the FBTB staff for all their years of hard work, and for taking this step forward.

I apologize for being a bit overbearing, but I’m curious about your response. I would actually be more interested to hear why you have nothing to say. I have to admit my first reaction is to think that LEGO coverage online is becoming a bit more homogenized, but I’m not sure if that’s a bad thing or a good thing. At any rate, I used to be active in FBTB and I wish it all the best no matter what!

I have nothing to say.

Back on subject, the site looks fantastic!

Just a heads up that people are continuing to have issues with the new site not working for them. The main culprit seems to be with the DNS; DNS propagation can take 24 to 48 hours, so some sporadic redirection to the old site may still occur for another day or so.