Phillyman

Its a great idea and one I have been sitting on for a while. Our Databases already drop out a dat file nightly, and I was writing a program to rename and organize off of that dat file. If you have more insight into the workings and display of such a program let me know your thoughts.

and the goal has been met! I will gather all the names above this weekend and pull a name from a hat for the grand prize

I know I have been absent for a while. Right now dealing with finding a new place to move and moving hundreds of pounds of magazines. But I like this idea, lets flesh it out and then I can get a quote to see what it would cost to put into action....if anything.

I remember sending this one to E-day

On 10/28/2019 at 4:57 AM, kitsunebi77 said:

@Phillyman Is this something that's impossible?  My post got ignored the first time around.  To reiterate, whenever a scanned mag is not the sole creation of a single person, EVERYONE credited in any way for any mag in our download section should receive reputation whenever that file is liked with the "like" or "thank you" buttons.  That means not just

Very little is impossible, but it comes down to a few things.

1) Can I do it natively thru the existing software.......No

2) Is there an add on from Invision that can do this.....No

3) Is there anyone out there making a third party modification to do this.....No

So once all of those have been exhausted, we are looking at hiring someone to modify Retromags, and that usually comes out to somewhere around $50-$75 per hour in labor. Now I have no issues hiring someone to mod the software, but keep in mind that once modded, each time we do upgrades, that mod may break and I may need to rehire the guy to fix whatever broke. Lets say this functionality cost me $250, and then once a year it breaks and costs us $100 to fix it. Do we have 25 users that can chip in $10 to get this started? Do we have 10 users who can chip in $10 a year to keep it working?

So I am all for it, I can get a quote for the price, but we need to have the entire idea flushed out. These guys will code what I ask for, but nothing more. So you want multiple people to get reputation from the Download Manager? What about the forum post that gets posted along side of it?

2 hours ago, TOLUST said:

No worries ! I love this site

Were you the member that I met in Jessup? Maryland one day to pick up magazines? I remember meeting someone about 8-9 years ago, but my memory is not the greatest. But yeah these mags existed on Retromags back before the crash of MegaUpload, they may have been a few that we lost in the shuffle.

22 minutes ago, E-Day said:

Actually, we never got that set up, so it's not backing up to my NAS yet.

9 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

Phillyman could best answer that, but the entire site is backed up multiple times per day if I'm not mistaken.

The Retromags website & Seedbox are backed up daily to my OneDrive and my NAS at home. They are then duplicated over to @E-days NAS in Canada. @Areala has a big fat hard drive that has all the Retromags releases on it as well.

90% of the releases are on 1337x's public torrent tracker, as well as out at a few private trackers. One of these days, I will float them all up to Newsgroups (Usenet) as well.

Oh and places like The Eye are also mirroring the vast majority of our releases - https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/RetroMags/

Also the Magazine Database is backed up every 6 hours.

We got so many backups, Juvenile is going to sing at our holiday party this year!

When a mag comes along, you must whip it!

Ticket was in, just waiting for it to be escalated to Tier 2/3 support, they patched the error here and in the next release

On 8/18/2019 at 6:20 PM, kitsunebi77 said:

(by whom I mean @Phillyman - I no longer have the ability to create databases, so don't ask me!) 

This has been fixed, also if you just give me a list of all the Official magazine titles, I can create the categories and then give you permission to fill in the records.

11 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

Looks like VGBounceHouse's problem got fixed with this upload.  Not sure if it was the work of @Phillyman or due to the recent software upgrade.  I'm still S.O.L., though.

It was me! And I fixed YOUR issue today!

6 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

Is this really the first time this has been scanned? 

Possible that is was scanned in the past with poor quality, or that it was lost during one of the many catastrophes we suffered thru the years

Yup @KiwiArcader is a good guy, no matter what anyone else says

I am sure it just slipped thru the cracks.

I am curious as to what happens when E-Day changes his name, and everything says E-day around here. Will the posts and downloads all change. Scanned by E-day, who is that?

55 minutes ago, E-Day said:

It's worth changing just to have you change yours to that!

Now thinking my name should be Harry Plopkins!

Fair point, I just had the Torrent announcement showing on the Forums home page, I made it show everywhere now. Not sure if I will keep it that way or find a better way. Its either 1 section or all sections and it looks weird in some areas.

21 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

You can sign up to receive new release notification emails so you won't miss anything.  For the past couple of months, there has been something released pretty much on a daily basis, so you may have missed quite a bit!

So on this, I wanted to point out a quick note.

The feedburner link that I have set to show below each release, is done thru Google without my interaction. But it is really only meant for non members of Retromags.

Members of Retromags - They should be using the notification system to stay notified of new releases. Our notification system is very powerful and they can choose whether to be notified off of the posts in the New Release Forum section, or they can be notified off of the Download Manager section, and if they choose the Download Manager section, they can further choose whether they want to be notified of all Nintendo Powers, or All USA magazines. They can also choose whether these notifications just show up when they log into Retromags, or if these notifications send Emails as they happen, or wait until the end of the week to send a summary of all releases that week.

Non Members of Retromags - they can use the Feedburner email that fires out at 5PM Eastern USA if a release was put out the day prior.

I too have thought about changing my name here at Retromags. Before I settled on Phillyman I was SmackedAzz and Southprker, I haven't used any of those since around 2002 with AIM.

Just got these

Only 4 more slots available, then I send the last $600 off to @CIVICMINDED and we draw a winner for the contest

The Download Manager just redirects you guys to leech.retromags.com/base, do you get the same issues downloading from there?

-Robert