[Phillyman]

KiwiArcader, on 16 January 2010 - 05:29 PM, said:

And if you're happy with it Phillyman then that's fine ....

Jake and I only wanted your view on having these sort of bulk links made available before posting them here given we could just as easily created these ourselves from our MU text export facility.

The only sad part is its a double hit on our traffic, Lets say someone puts up Jdownloader links.....not only does it bypass them coming here...but also a return person coming. For every person who clicks to MegaUpload from Retromags.....MegaUpload refers someone here the following day. Again though I will not prevent it, but it will not be a supported option that is monitored by our staff. This means you will be relying on a member like Kuaneos to keep the list updated.

Carry on

[KiwiArcader]

Phillyman, on 17 January 2010 - 02:15 PM, said:

The only sad part is its a double hit on our traffic, Lets say someone puts up Jdownloader links.....not only does it bypass them coming here...but also a return person coming. For every person who clicks to MegaUpload from Retromags.....MegaUpload refers someone here the following day. Again though I will not prevent it, but it will not be a supported option that is monitored by our staff. This means you will be relying on a member like Kuaneos to keep the list updated.

Carry on

Hence my personally not really liking the idea. The whole point of retromags is to preserve mags but in my mind the sentiment behind the site is also to make it interesting for people to come back by providng interesting information about the mags, content so they know what is in the mag before they download it and to provide a medium where people are encouraged not just to take but also to give back to the cause.

Bulk links provide none of the above. They merely provide a conduit for someone to just grab and run in one fell swoop. If that's the case we may as well have just created a torrent and not even have this site at all.

I know someone can just grab a mag at a time and then create a list and place it somewhere else. I know we can't prevent that happening. But that doesn't mean we should host the links here. It's a principle thing as far as I am concerned. If we're going down that path why not grab and make all OoPA's links available in one list here too? Or stop scanning ourselves and just find any old scans on the internet and make lists of those too?

Sorry ... that's my opinion. No-one will make me feel any different about it. You have to draw the line in the sand on a principle somewhere.

[Crookedmouth]

Thanks guys, sorry if that came across wrong. I was just asking.

I can't believe the site is almost back to normal.

I will get back to scanning and editing my meager collection.

[Waremonger]

Phillyman, on 16 January 2010 - 05:00 PM, said:

Hey CrookedMouth, Only I have the ability to change who a file is from. The entire Download section was erased due to a stupid mistake, as such right now we are mass uploading everything yet again. I am planning to mass email every Team Member and ask them to let me know what files are theirs. Go ahead and compile a list of what you uploaded and I will change the ownership back into your name. Sorry for the mess up, but we are trying to rectify it as fast as possible.

I've been MIA recently because I had to relocate and it took quite a lot of my time. Needless to say I was a bit shocked when I came back after (at least) a 6 month layoff and saw my submissions changed (mostly w/o giving me credit). It's good to see that ownership will be given back to the original uploader. Here is the stuff that I uploaded:

Electronic Games Vol. 1 No. 2 (Mar 82)
Electronic Games Vol. 1 No. 17 (Jul 83)
Electronic Games Vol. 2 No. 6 (Aug 83)
Computer Fun Issue #1 (Apr 1984)
Ahoy! Issue #1 (Jan 84)
COMPUTE! Vol. 9 No. 10, Issue #90 (Nov 87)
How to Win at Donkey Kong (Jun 1982)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Official Player's Guide
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Official Player's Guide

I've noticed that some of the stuff doesn't look like it's been re-uploaded yet so I can do that if needed?


CrookedMouth: Thanks for looking out for me :-)

[KiwiArcader]

Hiya Waremonger .... we'd been wondering where you had disappeared to. Lots of changes since you were here last for sure what with Hosting issues ... member issues ... site issues ... wife issues ... LOL

Anyways ... Glad to see you back.