Worth of uploading files to the site itself

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2010, January 12 - 12:59am

Attila

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Worth of uploading files to the site itself

Question: Is it even worth the effort to upload new files to this website? They keep disappearing, or taking so long to become available that we can count on lots of pestering posts claiming the download doesn't work. And I'm not even talking about the large "archived" downloads. I'm a patient guy, but I thought all this was supposed to be fixed.

ADD: My concern is that there's a false sense of security in uploading things to the site. If we can't count on it working for the time being, maybe new uploads should be disallowed for now, with a request for contributors to provide mirror links and hang on to their archives for the future when everything's working the way it should.

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2010, January 12 - 1:57am

OSX2000

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I agree. I keep everything I've uploaded or downloaded here archived.

2010, January 12 - 12:19pm

SwedeBear

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I second that with following adjustment. Until the expected move to a new server, and new regulations, hopefully the 'uploads' could be represented by the usual info; screenshots, working OS versions etc *but* the file/s it/themself. They would be in form of mirroring. This way the frame for each title is done and completed by the final dl link on the server.

2010, January 12 - 6:23pm

bertyboy

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The trouble for many recent uploads is the size, > 400MB, some even multi-disc. And as you know they're not being uploaded to the site. Otherwise I'm happy to load stuff to here and one of the mirrors.

2010, January 12 - 8:36pm

SwedeBear

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I´m thinking of the info value. You could get a Moby Games-ish packet of info here with focus on the Mac versions. Unlike Moby Games. And we could still provide the patches and updates. The disks in particular would be on mirror services. Until a new server would, hopefully, change the location of those images we already have the pages ready for them.

2010, January 12 - 8:44pm

bertyboy

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I always preferred gamedb.com over moby games, and then InsideMacGames over both.

2010, January 12 - 8:53pm

SwedeBear

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So lets say gamebd.com-ish or InsideMacGames-ish instead?

2010, January 13 - 4:09pm

Attila

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I like this site, I just don't like having files vanish and frequent posts asking about it.

2010, January 13 - 6:31pm

SwedeBear

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So do I. My suggestion is to keep the pages for each game and app and continue to do so. Even if you can´t/wouldn´t supply a link to the game itself on the page, the information is valuable kept in one place like MG. And every new page marks an available title.
I understand your feelings about the nagging and that´s one drawback with a relatively open 'community' like this place. There are places alike MG using storing services which only need the files to be active, ie dl:ed within certain interval. Maybe a solution…