A plea to save old mods

[TheCardinal]

I don´t know if this is the right place to put my plea. Should a moderator consider another subforum to be better suited fo it, feel free to move it.

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I've been playing KSP for several years now and during that time many versions have come and gone.

With each version new mods were developed, often to disappear when the next KSP version was released.

In many cases a lot of work was put into extending the KSP experience by adding something which didn´t exist in the stock game.

It IS a waste to let those mods vanish when a new KSP version is released.

It might be argued that the new coding of KSP makes old mods unusable and therefor the mod has lost it´s value.

I firmly believe differently. Yes, plugins and parts usually no longer can be used in the new version. However, plugins can be modified or simply be used as an example how to achieve something. Most parts which don´t use plugins can be made functional again by modifying the cfg files. The same applies to some parts which do use a plugin. A good example is the WEKA shuttle created by Lunniy Korabl. I´ve been using it ever since it was created.

I therefor plea to create some sort of a repository for old mods. It´s certain some mods stored there won´t be usable ever again but some will. Every mod put there might inspire users to create another mod and the sources certainly will be helpfull in the development of them.

[r4pt0r]

IIRC there were some people who ripped and saved the whole spaceport prior to its death, but that was frowned upon for some reason.

[sal_vager]

...but that was frowned upon for some reason.

That reason being the copyright infringement of all the modders work that was, and still is, all rights reserved or otherwise non-redistributable, which is why Squad didn't close the unmaintainable mess that was just a skin to wordpress commonly known as "Spaceport" straight away, allowing players to continue to access addons while the modders who had an interest in preserving and supporting their work could upload it elsewhere.

Thankfully the other addon repositories do respect the modders and their choices, and do not intentionally host the works of others without consent.

Also as many modders have shown there is a path to keep old addons alive, if the creator can be contacted and permission given, a new modder can take up the work and continue it

[_Augustus_]

That reason being the copyright infringement of all the modders work that was, and still is, all rights reserved or otherwise non-redistributable, which is why Squad didn't close the unmaintainable mess that was just a skin to wordpress commonly known as "Spaceport" straight away, allowing players to continue to access addons while the modders who had an interest in preserving and supporting their work could upload it elsewhere.

Thankfully the other addon repositories do respect the modders and their choices, and do not intentionally host the works of others without consent.

Also as many modders have shown there is a path to keep old addons alive, if the creator can be contacted and permission given, a new modder can take up the work and continue it

I second this.