Forum Down Time

[Atrocities]

I think it is a great idea to have a dedicate site for uploading and downloading things. I was just saying that I also felt that having them on the forum was big bonus. Things do change, and I am all for improving the forum, the site, and shrapnels bottom line.

Shrapnels reputation is growing as more and more people are becoming aware of the fine games they offer.

How many of you have a SEIV mouse pad? I do. How about the commerative print? I don't have that.

[Fyron]

I am not much in to "accessorizing" my games.

[David E. Gervais]

Change is good, as long as my avatars survive the upgrade. Speaking of avatars, I wonder if Shrapnel would like to make them available for the general masses in all the other forums? (Of course only the non-reserved avatars should/would be available to the public.)

What do you all think?

Cheers!

[Atrocities]

I think that is a great idea David. I hope shrapnel agrees.

[Richard]

Actually I have wanted to ask you about that for a long time, but it will take some work to do.

Actually bandwidth is not an issue, between our two servers we have 2 Terabyte a month of bandwidth available before we hit usage charges.

The problem is the board solution is not perfect, it does not really allow the features that a good download/upload manager should allow for.

If I had the time I would just write it myself, but again we have other options in the works.

[Fyron]

You could snag the downloads module out of a Nuke portal such as PHP Nuke. Not entirely sure of the "legal" issues, but they are released under GPL for free public use...

[Richard]

No offense but phpnuke is a nightmare to work with, if you want to do more than just use the standard mods. Actually if I went that route I would probably uss stock phpbb and use it's mods, or something like ezportal or mx-system. But I think our eventual solution will make more sense.