Lost Video Island

thefilmchick · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:34 am Post subject:

Lame. Is it possible those communities and LVI could pool fiscal resources somehow? If a paid plan comes via concentrated donations of the Lost vidding community (or the vidding community at large) and if paid plans can keep the videos hosted for free, it'd more easily stand a chance of being supported if the money was kept on one network. What are the costs involved?

Barring that, it is possible via cPanel/Ruby on Rails/etc. to set up a video hosting site fairly easily, but there are a host of other things involved in actually owning the site for video hosting I don't want to personally touch.

If anyone needed tech help in that arena, I'd be willing to offer my time this summer, provided it was solely an LVI resource.
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Aislynn · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:44 am Post subject:

Yeah, the legal ramifications of actually hosting vids ourselves was something Lostcalier and Enchirito (the site founders and original admin and webmaster respectively) looked into back at the start. LVI actually predates Youtube and many of the other free hosting places out there, so back In The Day, you just about had to have your own website to host your vids on or use something like Yousendit, which expired in 7 days.

So they looked into if it was feasible to try to host the vids on LVI, which quickly proved impossible as more and more vids came in. But even more so was the fact that if LVI is actually hosting the vids, then we much more susceptible to being shut down or sued than we are as a site that lists vids but does not actually host them.

Anyway, I had a look at Ning directly and it seems like May 4, 2010 is when they are going to tell their new pricing plans and such.

Source

I'd imagine that's also when they'll be shutting down the free service but I haven't confirmed that yet.

nikkimonique · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:29 pm Post subject:

So sad!!!

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thefilmchick · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:37 pm Post subject:

So: Should we decide which one to pool resources towards, in the event it becomes necessary? If it's a question of, say, 10 people tossing $10 at the problem for permanent availability, I'd be willing to chip in (especially as Youtube likes to mute Elvis Costello and Warren Zevon), but, like I said, as there are multiple sites out there, we should decide which one gets the money, so we're not spreading our resources too thin.
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nikkimonique · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:00 pm Post subject:

yeah I wouldn't mind paying to help Namaste Nikki Town stay up.

Its got quite a few members now and Nikki is fun!

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thefilmchick · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject:

I'm on Namaste Nikki Town as well--would be willing to toss a tenner at them. Would you, Nikki? I think if we can get ten people to cover, we should be covered, but since apparently they haven't posted the rates yet...
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nikkimonique · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:30 pm Post subject:

A message to all members of Namaste Nikki Town

Now that we have hit 108 members for our town. Im glad to say that I have re-newed our network for a few years! I know some of you have emailed me that NING is undergoing some changes and nothing will effect our great community of people.
I created this for all of us to place our video's and talk with all of our friends...

I know many of us will continue to make LOST ad's even after the show had ended...This is a open vidding source for all songs, Vids and anything LOST!!!!

HUGS- Nikki

Visit Namaste Nikki Town at: http://namastenikki.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
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thefilmchick · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:37 pm Post subject:

Lol. Well, I guess not, then!
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nikkimonique · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject:

sounds like she is going to pay for it

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Aislynn · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:01 pm Post subject:

Oh, that's AWESOME news about Namaste Nikki Town! Thanks for letting us know, Nikki!

I wasn't anticipating any of the vidding networks there being able to pay the fee! BAM, obviously, already said they can't and Showyourvids has been rather abandoned by the creator from what I've heard.

I believe there are a couple more vidding networks but I couldn't recall their names...

I'm not a member at Namaste Nikki Town yet so I can't see the announcement directly. Does it accept vids other than Lost or is it only for Lost vids?