02-02-2009, 09:20 PM
When Freddy and I accepted Vern's plead for admin responsibilities at this MM forum, one of our concern was how to present custom mansions to forum readers and MM players. Freddy came up with the idea which we have used for more than 2 years now:
1. Organizing the CM's by a) Author, b) Release date and c) CM name
2. Creating a CM
3. We also laid out a few rules of numbering CM versions in order to make it easier for users to check whether they had the newest version.
As most of you know my computer's hard disk crashed badly in last autumn and I just got my computer back a few days ago. For a few months only Freddy could upload new CM's or new updates of older CM's since there are a few things we look into before uploading and without a working MM program I was unable to do proper CM uploads.
And then Freddy had to attend to personal matters and has been away for a while now, making it impossible to upload new CM's (and updates) the proper way.
(I know that Freddy will be back eventually, so don't worry).
Meanwhile I have had a few new CM's to upload and the only way to do it was to ask the authors to upload them themselves in the
I hope you are still following my storyline :
Now we have most of our CM's in a special board for downloads where they are sorted according to authors, names or dates. Then we have a few mansions that can only be downloaded in their special boards.
My question is:
Do we want to keep the old system (and then I will move the most recent CM's to the download board),
OR
Do we want to be able to download the CM's from the CM discussion boards (in which case we will NOT make them available for download in the old system as well)?
1. Organizing the CM's by a) Author, b) Release date and c) CM name
2. Creating a CM
subcategory in such a way that when a user clicks on a link in one of the boards in 1. above, he is taken to a category where the CM's are named by their checksum as it is calculated when the CM zipfile is run through the command
openssl -shain the Unix Terminal program found in the ~/Application/Utilities folder. The idea was that the user would then be able to check whether the CM zipfile had downloaded correctly.
3. We also laid out a few rules of numbering CM versions in order to make it easier for users to check whether they had the newest version.
As most of you know my computer's hard disk crashed badly in last autumn and I just got my computer back a few days ago. For a few months only Freddy could upload new CM's or new updates of older CM's since there are a few things we look into before uploading and without a working MM program I was unable to do proper CM uploads.
And then Freddy had to attend to personal matters and has been away for a while now, making it impossible to upload new CM's (and updates) the proper way.
(I know that Freddy will be back eventually, so don't worry).
Meanwhile I have had a few new CM's to upload and the only way to do it was to ask the authors to upload them themselves in the
Talkboard. Then I made a new board for the uploaded CM and moved it to that board for downloading and discussing purposes in order to keep the same system that we have now: One CM in one discussion board.
I hope you are still following my storyline :
Now we have most of our CM's in a special board for downloads where they are sorted according to authors, names or dates. Then we have a few mansions that can only be downloaded in their special boards.
My question is:
Do we want to keep the old system (and then I will move the most recent CM's to the download board),
OR
Do we want to be able to download the CM's from the CM discussion boards (in which case we will NOT make them available for download in the old system as well)?
