{"id":360,"date":"2009-03-18T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/18\/my-lego-network\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T03:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T03:52:15","slug":"my-lego-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/18\/my-lego-network\/","title":{"rendered":"My LEGO Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"my<\/a>*rant-on*
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Okay… One of the members of GFLUG is big into <\/span><\/span>My LEGO Network<\/span><\/span><\/a> (or MLN for short). It’s a social network filled with games, quests, building friends & objects, trading objects, etc. aimed at kids (the GFLUG member has a 9 year old son). So I tried it out. It’s Flash based. It’s cool. But under Safari on my iMac, it runs soo ssslllooowww; almost to the point of being unusable. When you’re doing a quest and have to click in several places to build objects, or flip from building objects to trading them with Networkers… It’s just painful!<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>And another thing I find annoying? The LEGO Universe Creation Lab… where people take a building challenge, then show off their creations. Flipping through creations 9 at a time, with so much extra Flash crap on the page just makes it painful to paginate through!<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Don’t get me wrong, I love Flash and can see some of the potential benefits of it. But LEGO get a fraking UI designer to help out with your web-site pages. Either find a way to optimize your pages or replace some of the Flash with JavaScript. Bottom line, thinking about he people using your web-site & make them want to keep coming back to it, not making them die from a slow page load!<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
*rant-off*<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/span>…I return you to your normal LEGO broadcast & I’m sorry for the interruption… <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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