Good news. The forum software license has been renewed for 6 months.

[voltmanderer]

Due to the outage, I started precautiously making a mirror backup of the wiki, just in case it goes offline suddenly. Any idea of the actual size of the forum? I expect that in a few years time, this may not exist any more, but the history contained within, as well as all the tutorials, art, stories, etc is just too important to allow to sunset. With only a 6 month license renewal, perhaps it's time to release archival images of the whole forum from a single snapshot date, and allow those to be downloaded by interested parties or released into the wilds on Bittorrent.

[theJesuit]

8 hours ago, voltmanderer said:

Due to the outage, I started precautiously making a mirror backup of the wiki, just in case it goes offline suddenly. Any idea of the actual size of the forum? I expect that in a few years time, this may not exist any more, but the history contained within, as well as all the tutorials, art, stories, etc is just too important to allow to sunset. With only a 6 month license renewal, perhaps it's time to release archival images of the whole forum from a single snapshot date, and allow those to be downloaded by interested parties or released into the wilds on Bittorrent.

I hadn't considered the wiki!

[Neeeosis]

But if the forum closes, where and how can we download all the mods? Maybe on github, but there are a lot of explanations, faq and tips on the forum page of some mods

Look at the MKS (modular kolonisation system) page...

Btw i would be ok to donate some money in order to maintain this forum.

[Superfluous J]

3 hours ago, Neeeosis said:

But if the forum closes, where and how can we download all the mods?

Spacedock.

And if that closes, well then we're in trouble.

[AVaughan]

Ckan has most of the mods indexed.  (And it knows download locations as well).  No reason to think that is going away anytime soon.

 

[Scarecrow71]

@Vanamonde

So what happens in March when the license runs out?

[RandomKid]

On 12/26/2024 at 6:19 PM, Scarecrow71 said:

@Vanamonde

So what happens in March when the license runs out?

Who knows.

[Gargamel]

On 12/26/2024 at 4:19 PM, Scarecrow71 said:

@Vanamonde

So what happens in March when the license runs out?

Considering we've given all the info we have, you know as much as we do. 

[Terran R]

23 hours ago, RandomKid said:

Quem sabe.

only time will tell

[AlamoVampire]

from what ive heard from a source that i trust implicitly, is that its been renewed for a year, and this information was relayed to me back in november. i will not say who told me, but suffice to say, that again, i trust them and their reputation is stellar. if they wish to speak up they may or if they tell me i can reveal who they are i will, but until im green lit to say who, i cant. 

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[Scarecrow71]

9 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:

from what ive heard from a source that i trust implicitly, is that its been renewed for a year, and this information was relayed to me back in november. i will not say who told me, but suffice to say, that again, i trust them and their reputation is stellar. if they wish to speak up they may or if they tell me i can reveal who they are i will, but until im green lit to say who, i cant. 

231512312024

I have a hard time believing this.  "I know something, but I can't tell anyone unless I'm told I can, even though I'm sure they wouldn't mind but haven't told me I can yet."  Why even bother telling us that you know something if you can't tell us who told you?  It falls under the same category as the forum user who, last year, claimed they were in talks with Take Two to purchase the IP.  Which, as we all know, turned out to be bunk.

It's bad enough that we don't know who bought the studio (which, to me, is just more of the same "We know something but can't tell you" garbage).  Unless you can give us actual details, please don't come out here and tell us you have it on good anonymous authority.  I'll trust the actual post from the mods that validated it was only 6 months.

[Lisias]

On 1/1/2025 at 2:14 AM, AlamoVampire said:

from what ive heard from a source that i trust implicitly, is that its been renewed for a year, and this information was relayed to me back in november. i will not say who told me, but suffice to say, that again, i trust them and their reputation is stellar. if they wish to speak up they may or if they tell me i can reveal who they are i will, but until im green lit to say who, i cant. 

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Given that que Forum QoS is finally getting better (not perfect, but way better) at the same time the concurrent users rise in quantity, I believe que there're people working on it and, so, there's a good chance we survive this ordeal after all.

Edited 8 hours ago by Lisias
Kraken damned auto-correctors!

[PDCWolf]

4 hours ago, Lisias said:

 at the same time the concurrent users rise in quantity

Source needed, and I'd also need a good proof it's not self-fulfilling from the forum having better uptime and thus allowing the 1000+ lurkers (mostly crawler bots) to be online for longer.

[softweir]

57 minutes ago, PDCWolf said:

Source needed, and I'd also need a good proof it's not self-fulfilling from the forum having better uptime and thus allowing the 1000+ lurkers (mostly crawler bots) to be online for longer.

I believe @Lisias's point was "the forum is remaining stable despite an apparent increase in users and/or bots". That the stability increase will have inevitably lead to an increase in apparent users doesn't invalidate the point that there is an improvement in stability.