Comprehensive mod listing?

[Buster Charlie]

Ckan is great, I'm sure spaceddock will be great, Github is just great, even some people love to curse... then you have stuff like hyper edit which has its own website.

Maybe I missed it right here on this very forum, but is there a spreadsheet or database or Google doc that compiled every current /active mod out there,  should there be?

My thoughts are some mod authors prefer one site over another, or they have their private site, or they just have dropbox. You'll never get all mods on one location, and that's a shame for the mod hungry user (did someone say stable 64bit?)

 

So my request and or suggestion or proposal is something that looks like the ckan mod listing, maybe slightly different parameters,  but isn't installing, modifing, redisyributibg,or doing anything except linking directly to the mod.

I just hate the idea of missing out on a good mod because it's hidden someplace obscure 

[Starhawk]

I always go to the OP of this thread to look for mods:

Happy landings!

[Buster Charlie]

Okay that's a start, not sure I like the fact that it doesn't appear to specify 1.0.5 or whatnot, but I didn't see that post so that's a very good tip, thank you 

[wasml]

It would require a good chunk of someones time to keep the list up to date. Just scanning this site for new mods is time consuming not to mention other sites - not saying it won't happen but the list maintainer would have to be really dedicated. On the up side the best mods tend to stay on the first page for awhile so your chances of spotting them are good.

Edited February 19, 2016 by wasml

[Buster Charlie]

Would there be a way to do some wikia style listing that the community can edit?

[Streetwind]

That would still not be complete because someone new who says "I feel like making a mod today" may just post it on the forums without knowing that wikia thing even exists. I mean, you didn't know that the mod list thread on the forums existed, and it's been pinned there at the top for over two years now

No, the only way to have it fully complete and up to date is to have a dedicated person invest several hours of time at least once a week to scour the web, the forums and the various download sources to catalogue everything they find. It would be super tedious, which is why nobody does it.

Edited February 22, 2016 by Streetwind

[Stone Blue]

2 hours ago, Streetwind said:

No, the only way to have it fully complete and up to date is to have a dedicated person invest several hours of time at least once a week to scour the web, the forums and the various download sources to catalogue everything they find. It would be super tedious, which is why nobody does it.

This would STILL be impossible with just one or two people doing this... Believe me, I KNOW... I've been doing it for a couple years now...
I have a spreadsheet I keep, and its gotten crazy, just trying to handle between 300-500 mods... I spend WAYYY too much time on it that I shouldnt be...lol

Granted, I was shooting for having the older, last released version of mods, for older versions of KSP, stay on the list, so people playing old versions would know what versions were backward compatable....As well as keeping important notes on dependencies, incompatabilities, or other most important details about the mods...

I was relying heavily on KerbalStuff for a lot of that old info, and now with KS shutting down, the wind is out of my sails for continuing the project...

Anyway, back on point, it CERTAINLY would take one or two people a LOT of time, and effort to keep such a list up to date... Theres also dealing with, WHICH mods to keep track of... One person's gem of a mod, may be seemingly pointless to another... And remember there are probably over a couple THOUSAND unique mods, changing at any one time...

 

[Buster Charlie]

2 hours ago, Streetwind said:

That would still not be complete because someone new who says "I feel like making a mod today" may just post it on the forums without knowing that wikia thing even exists. I mean, you didn't know that the mod list thread on the forums existed, and it's been pinned there at the top for over two years now

No, the only way to have it fully complete and up to date is to have a dedicated person invest several hours of time at least once a week to scour the web, the forums and the various download sources to catalogue everything they find. It would be super tedious, which is why nobody does it.

I was honestly thinking a more casual approach.  It doesn't have to be 100 percent accurate all the time, I was just thinking that it would get updated on a basis at which people update it. Because right now, there is no such list beyond ckan, which I'm guessing you may be able to poll for data. But there athlete mod authors that reject ckan, so I'm just really looking at ways to take ckans list and complete it