Hey all, this is my first forum post, so please excuse any improper etiquette of mine.
I had a Nostalgia itch recently, and decided I would hunt down a classic copy of KSP from when I first started playing. To keep a long and difficult story short, I was having a blast. The old aesthetics really quenched my nostalgia thirst. But as nice as it was, KSP was definitely lacking in it's quality of life features back in the day.
So I went on yet another hunt for some classic mods that worked with KSP 0.20.0, and ended up having much less success than I hoped. CKAN, Spacedock, and Curseforge all run dry once you go further back than 0.23 or around there. Github seems to have the most potential, some mods have very old releases still archived on there but I haven't found any that work with 0.20 yet.
So far, the only working mods I've found are a copy of Banana for Scale I found on CKAN, and an release of B9 Aerospace which somehow still has it's Mediafire page (https://www.mediafire.com/download/uz3sx8631qebreu/B9_Aerospace_Pack_R3-1.zip).
So, I have come to you guys for some help. If any of you have been playing back in the day and have any old copies of mods stored away on your hard drive, or you know of any other places to find them, Perhaps we could start an effort to save these mods by Hosting them somewhere again.
I'm not a modder and I'm not familiar with the rules around uploading mods that you haven't made yourself, but I feel like for the purpose of preserving them, surely uploading them to Curseforge or Spacedock while giving credit to the author should be allowed yes? Once the file is hosted somewhere safe, adding them to CKAN could go a long way.
Maybe this is all just a pipe dream, but I figured I would at least make an attempt.