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Well and the thing is every time someone post a new script you have to update your post. Thats pretty hard to say the least.
Six year in moderation of different forums. I like stuff like this: creating manuals, instructions, database, perfectionism thing... So, it is not big problem for me.
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All script links go to some mediafire page
I have mediafire cloud soft and for me, for files hosting - mediafire is better solution: no captcha, no premium accounts, no "wait xillion years before you can download file", and special thing for JS files: in-build redactor, so anyone can look through the code without downloading it, to be sure whats wrong with it or do it have "viral" content. I know, this is holywar about which filehost is best, but five years ago I stand with that one and its OK for me.
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instead of to the creator's forum attachment link or their forum post.
Hey, it will be in next updates. =)
Because it is very hard to explain all details about some scripts (item manager, income summary e.t.c) - I will post link on specific thread (if it is exist). To be fair, - I guess every author should create dedicated thread for their script, but my democraty is nothing and everyone do as they want.
For now I just want to ask what you thing about thread like I create. So, links to thread will be, definitely.
About the attachment... Well... You know... I have a very bad experience, about attachments...
Few years ago I moderate one forum dedicate to game killing floor . And here, I manage to create subfoum for "mutators" (game based on Unreal Engine 2 and mutators is like somekind of a little customizations, like new weapons, monsters, modes e.t.c.). I posted all this mutators in attachments, and do this for around year and got, maybe, 300 of them. One day admin turned from one forum engine to another and all my attachments was been corrupted! Instead of files like: "Скачать "MP40a SILENCED", I have like this: "Invalid attachement 4432210."
Thys all my attachments were corrupted and I will forced to reupload them as a links on my filehost account. For insurance purpose... So, that's why I hate attachments at all. Look at this thread from the beginning and you will find that some attachments DO not have files, or corrupted, or deleted, or what-ever-happened for them...
And I hate to send people to download files in different threads. It looks like "hey, you want to download one script? Look AT THIS thread, post number 1404" and when someone moved on this link he find message like this: "here was old version, now move HERE for new one" e.t.c. You got the point...
And other thing is, people has a tendency create some thing and do not archive it for future. I have look through the this forum and find some rare builds, version and scripts itself noone hear about and nobody do something to collect them all (aha, like pokemons >_>) and manage to turn into big museum somekind of.
And there is big chance that we will sent people to download script from some custom attachment, but author just will someday moves angry (someone flame on him or ban?) and he will deleted his attachment with script in revenge-fashion. This is Internet, people around like this, and my experience show that this cases not so rare.
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I suspect that will be very off-putting to many who naturally distrust such things.
Here I totally agree with you... But on the other hand we just collect scripts and create "scripts compendium" for history, developers and lurkers. We do not force people to use only this one thread to download scripts - they will have option to use alternative ways (so does author have option to distribute their script as they want...)
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because the forum doesn't support tables/html.
And this really offend me... I able to make better layout, if this options do exist..
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wiki is a much better format
I got your point. Wiki is really good for some kind of information, but for my project, as I stated before, I think it is not comfortably...
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Bytheway, I look in my folder on PC with scripts. There are 38 more (do not count different versions of some) to post. So, this thread will be even bigger. And for 90% of them I do not have any idea what they do, because there are no "description" or "include" or "match" tags... Why developers do not include information like this? *gabble ramble gabble ramble*...
This post has been edited by f4tal: Jan 21 2016, 22:16