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vex
Registered: May 2011
Posts: 4 |
FR: Let me * star releases to build my personal top list
It would be great if you had the possibility to "star" releases, so that you could build a list of your personal top releases over time.
There is sooo much good stuff in CSDb and it happens all the time that I stumble upon a good release and forget about it later, desperately searching for it afterwards...
With this feature all I had to do was a simple click on a star or some funky little logo to make that release go into my top list.
Just my five cents.. :)
Anyways, thanks for your great work here. CSDb is pure awesomeness. |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1576 |
LOL People asking for features on CSDb. What year it is, 2002?
All you could get is poop. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Build your own scene database, harvest CSDb and add features as you like.
If only I had the time and knowledge... |
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vex
Registered: May 2011
Posts: 4 |
Okay, guys, so we have successfully identified the underlying problem, which is:
- hardly maintained code
Now, there are some obvious solutions:
1: code CSDbNG from scratch (not gonna happen, as we are all a bunch of lazies)
2: open source CSDb and branch to CSDbNG
3: give some young and motivated programmers access to
the CSDb codebase so things get fixed/added in the future (definitely not me)
4: Keep things as they are. Do your custom workarounds or just don't care.
I'd prefer option 2 or 3. 4 would be the worst from my point of view. Because things will start to break, fail, get hacked, be corrupted, etc. in a wonderful number of ways and if we're not able to maintain this site it will sooner or later be fubar.
Option number 1 would be nice, of course, but without database and code open sourced, it'd be a tedious task to rip all the information that's stored here. It's kind of a last resort solution.
Who's owner of the code, anyways? Maybe I should ask him. |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1576 |
@vex: This is hardly news. For the last 10+ years every once in a while someone gets fed up with some shit and a thread like this appears. But whatever is discussed in it quickly gets forgotten, so I wouldn't get my hopes up too high on any of those solutions.
Seems to me that the general concensus of the moderators/admins/devs is a detached, disinterested acceptance of the current situation, and we oughta deal with it. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11123 |
everyone who had looked at the code so far came to the conclusion that rewriting all of it is the one and only practical solution, as its already patched and hacked beyond all hope and no sane webdeveloper would do things even remotely similar these days. opensourcing certainly wouldnt help a lot at all there, except scaring away more people perhaps =)
so indeed, mace gave the proper answer. just do it. harvesting the data (or even get the database and convert it) will be the least of all problems =) |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 491 |
I had sent a message to mods about an help offer but haven't got a reply, yet. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2847 |
Don't waste your mojo, Skate, the elders have decided it's unpossible to fix. :) |
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Peacemaker
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 243 |
i bet the source does not even have comments.. damn it. the source is lost.. for ever
(sark off) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11123 |
the missing comments are certainly not the biggest problem in this code :o) |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 491 |
You can even obfuscate and precompile. There is always a way to reverse and refactor. So, whoever has the authority to invite me to the dev team and share the repo, please contact me. I'm fine with a denial but at the moment i didn't even get an answer. |
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