Yeah, exciting. Except that vaporware never is exciting- it's been a ridiculous amount of time, we've lost untold numbers of prospective newbies to the lack of updates, and you've gotta be in friggin' denial to still imagine it's gonna happen.
How, exactly, is it different than a standard upload? The page itself doesn't have any special code that I can see- like I said, a day in Dreamweaver to add new table entries on the outside. If Gamespy has some wierd setup, that's one thing, but if this is another one of those "we're making it unnecessarily complex because it's more convenient because today is Opposite Day" things, then it's a relatively simple affair to chuck out the whole ****ing deal and make a new setup.
I mean, really, how hard can you manage to make a table of file listings? I've got a multimedia page with animations, multiple layers, mousovers I barely even understand and enough rendered **** to take a month in production, but when I get down to it I can crank out a page a week- and that's factoring in setting up scenes with existing models and rendering them. You don't have to do that, it's just text (which can be provided by the creator) and links to files (which have to be provided by the creator). There's jack **** to do, how can you possibly set it up so that it takes more than a year to add one single file to it?
Actually, I'm not sure I wanna know. But you see my point- this is just stupid.
Hell, who needs interactivity, anyway? It'd get abused, have to be moderated anyway, would contract bugs, be more difficult to fix, and already has hurt the community more than it ever is gonna help, and it ain't even up yet! Ten minutes to open the file in Dreamweaver, copy/paste a table, type in a new name, reroute the link and paste in a new 50-word description, and upload the ****er. There. You've got a setup with a one-day to one-week lag between post and upload (infinitely shorter than the nonexistent one now), it's simple to maintain and fix, can be quality-controlled by admins, and for ****'s sake if you're all too lazy to do it give me the upload codes and I can manage it in my spare time. I've done more difficult ones before.
See, here's my take- I can have this system up in a week, given that someone gives the the upload information and someone else lets the modders know what's up. From what I hear and what I've seen of the realities of databases, it'll work very nearly as well as anything you can create. It can be maintained and updated in seconds, requires only the amount of effort involved in making, say, a newspost (or spamming here, since the newspost is kinda a bad example seeing how rarely you do that). And if this mythic fancy-schmantsy new uberfunctional frontpage ever comes along, you can put it on over this one just as easily as the ****ty, run-down piece of crap we have now. There's no real loss on anyone's side, I've offered to do the majority of the work (which is still next to none) already several times, and for once we won't have something that's an embarassment to everyone around. Unless you can come up with a really good, compelling reason as to why this can't or shouldn't be done (One that doesn't involve the concept of "I'm even too lazy to let someone else do all the work"), this is all just**** and excuse-making. Inertia. Whatever it is, I'm not gonna sit around waiting for a code Godot just because y'all admins are under the illusion that it's gonna pop up tomorrow, and tomorro the next day (nobody else is fooled).
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