If your mod is hosted on KerbalStuff, you might want to consider rehosting

[TaintedLion]

KerbalStuff was shut down last night for various reasons. If your mod is hosted on KerbalStuff, you should consider rehosting on a site like Curse or Github.

Edited February 15, 2016 by TaintedLion
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[MinimumSky5]

Do we know why? I'm just curious as to why it was taken off, and if it can return.

[Mipe]

3 minutes ago, MinimumSky5 said:

Do we know why? I'm just curious as to why it was taken off, and if it can return.

Just visit the KerbalStuff.com site.

[MinimumSky5]

Sorry, I assumed that by taken down, you meant that I would only receive an address error if I tried to get to the site.

[smjjames]

Well damn, there goes one of the better hosting places and a good place to look at for updates.

[drtedastro]

Sorry to see this happen.

KerbalStuff certainly was my preferred site for mods.

I know this is too little too late, but, thanks for all of the work, time and effort that was put into this.

Best regards for any and all future work.

Cheers/

[legoclone09]

Aww, this is very sad. Maybe, since the source code is still on Github, someone else can re-host the site?

[mostlydave]

This sucks and I really appreciate the effort that went into kerbal stuff, but this if probably the exact reason squad doesn't officially endorse it. I'm sure they get a cut of the ad revenue on curse, and as we see here all it takes is one man's change of attitude to take the site offline. 

 

[-ctn-]

This is very sad to me. I loved KerbalStuff and the layout, and the automatic emails that would send out when a mod you followed was updated. And the automatic CKAN integration. Curse is laid out much more poorly.

As a modder, my CRS mod has literally almost ten times as many downloads on KerbalStuff as it does on Curse. That makes me sad, because I loved seeing how many people were downloading and enjoying my little mods that I share with the community. 

[Gaultesian]

One of my habits for the morning was to get to work, and then pull up Kerbal Stuff and peruse it for 5 minutes:  it always made my work morning more manageable for the five minutes of my time I spent on it, and if I could have (or give) a dollar for every download I did on KS.....

I always disliked curse.

Github is going to be my choice of download (provided modders use is regularly, which most of them do).  Curse will be used only when all other options are nil.

RIP Kerbal Stuff....I am saddened by my loss of this fun website. And to the author/creator of Kerbal Stuff, thank you so much for time and patience.

Edited February 15, 2016 by Gaultesian

[agent 902]

This is realy sad,we are now missing a well made site to host mods,it just like when spaceport got taken away and replaced by dang stupid curse

[Budgie]

Haven't posted on the forum in ages, but I think this warrants a comment. KerbalStuff will indeed be missed, and I hope this thread serves as an admittedly late replacement for the huge lack of thanks for such a reliable and useful site.

Thanks to you, SirCmpwn!

[maculator]

This really sucks. Kerbalstuff was my favorite site for mods.

[TaintedLion]

Is it alright if I ask the moderators to sticky this so all mod devs can see this?

[Jivaii]

Myself and a few others are currently downloading the entire KerbalStuff library (all 61.5 GB). I'll probably see about trying to contact mod authors and assist in figuring out if and where the mods can be re-hosted. The mod authors I can't contact, I'll likely consider uploading the mods with their names pasted everywhere.

 

http://spacedock.info/ is a new potential host, we'll see how it works out.

Edited February 15, 2016 by Jivaii

[Yemo]

4 minutes ago, TaintedLion said:

Is it alright if I ask the moderators to sticky this so all mod devs can see this?

As long as you rephrase it to something along the lines of

"If your mod is hosted on KerbalStuff, might want to consider rehosting"

since there is no need to do anything especially without an adequate alternative which provides similar levels of convenience and features for the modders as kerbalstuff did.

Edited February 15, 2016 by Yemo

[TaintedLion]

1 minute ago, Yemo said:

As long as you rephrase it to something along the lines of

"If your mod is hosted on KerbalStuff, might want to consider rehosting"

since there is no need to do anything especially without an adequate alternative which provides similar levels of convenience and features for the modders as kerbalstuff did.

Done.

[FreeThinker]

11 minutes ago, Jivaii said:

Myself and a few others are currently downloading the entire KerbalStuff library (all 61.5 GB). I'll probably see about trying to contact mod authors and assist in figuring out if and where the mods can be re-hosted. The mod authors I can't contact, I'll likely consider uploading the mods with their names pasted everywhere.

 

http://spacedock.info/ is a new potential host, we'll see how it works out.

Does it include the change logs? because I used Kerbalstuff to list all changes I made in KSPI, which is a lot.

[Jivaii]

1 hour ago, agent 902 said:

This is realy sad,we are now missing a well made site to host mods,it just like when spaceport got taken away and replaced by dang stupid curse

 

27 minutes ago, Budgie said:

Haven't posted on the forum in ages, but I think this warrants a comment. KerbalStuff will indeed be missed, and I hope this thread serves as an admittedly late replacement for the huge lack of thanks for such a reliable and useful site.

Thanks to you, SirCmpwn!

 

1 hour ago, smjjames said:

Well damn, there goes one of the better hosting places and a good place to look at for updates.

 

There's a group of people working to get another hosting site up. In the process of downloading the entire library of KerbalStuff.

 

3 minutes ago, FreeThinker said:

Does it include the change logs? because I used Kerbalstuff to list all changes I made in KSPI, which is a lot.

I don't know at this point. I've only got 9% of the entire library atm.

 

Looked at the file list, seems I'm getting older versions of mods as well. Still no idea if the changelogs are included.

Edited February 15, 2016 by Jivaii

[agent 902]

5 minutes ago, Jivaii said:

 

 

 

There's a group of people working to get another hosting site up. In the process of downloading the entire library of KerbalStuff.

omg that's awesome,a new site,KS 2.0 is on the way!

[sieve]

Vanilla kerbal= excrements, curse = excrements

Looks like no more ksp for me, It's really depressing to see things like this happening. 180 USD/month could keep the site alive but squad decide to endorse curse and their ad revenue instead.

[Kerbart]

2 minutes ago, sieve said:

Vanilla kerbal= excrements, curse = excrements

Looks like no more ksp for me, It's really depressing to see things like this happening. 180 USD/month could keep the site alive but squad decide to endorse curse and their ad revenue instead.

Ads? On KSP's Curse page? Let me look. Let's start by following the link Get Mods! at the top of this page...

http://imgur.com/a01Jh1x

Nope, no ads here. Maybe if I actually select a mod. Will I see ads?

http://imgur.com/BAeSHAV

Nope, no ads here either. Must be when I download the mod then?

http://imgur.com/wfNWCai

AAAAGH! THE HORROR! GET IT OFF ME! GET OFF! Oh, wait, it's just a regular download dialog.

So, where are these horrible ads that you speak off? Surely you can find them by going directly to curse.com, but why would you? Unless you want to see them? But why complain about them then?

[njmksr]

1 hour ago, Jivaii said:

Myself and a few others are currently downloading the entire KerbalStuff library (all 61.5 GB). I'll probably see about trying to contact mod authors and assist in figuring out if and where the mods can be re-hosted. The mod authors I can't contact, I'll likely consider uploading the mods with their names pasted everywhere.

 

http://spacedock.info/ is a new potential host, we'll see how it works out.

So how do we figure out the download counts on the mods?

[Darkstar One]

4 hours ago, smjjames said:

Well damn, there goes one of the better hosting places and a good place to look at for updates.

Would say not "the better" but "the best" - do dammn sad. Guess Squads ignorance and their idea of sticking with curse additional to the unclear delay of 1.1 moves KSP sadly from its living into its dying timeframe of existence.

[theJesuit]

2 hours ago, Kerbart said:

Ads? On KSP's Curse page? Let me look. Let's start by following the link Get Mods! at the top of this page...

http://imgur.com/a01Jh1x

Nope, no ads here. Maybe if I actually select a mod. Will I see ads?

http://imgur.com/BAeSHAV

Nope, no ads here either. Must be when I download the mod then?

http://imgur.com/wfNWCai

AAAAGH! THE HORROR! GET IT OFF ME! GET OFF! Oh, wait, it's just a regular download dialog.

So, where are these horrible ads that you speak off? Surely you can find them by going directly to curse.com, but why would you? Unless you want to see them? But why complain about them then?

Agreed.  Curseforge is the way to go rather than straight Curse.  The upset over Curse does seem to be as bad as te move to Steam many moons ago but with KS's viable alternative and simplistic way to join we didn't get over it. People should goggle it.

Peace.