Guest Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 4 hours ago, Virtualgenius said: Squad should man up and support Kerbalstuff as they are the reason it was created, by either donating funds or providing some hosting for it if they hadnt backdoored everyone on the curse debacle perhaps we the community may have come up with amiable arangemant Well... http://downoruprightnow.com/status/kerbalstuff.com It's been down for a little while now. I don't think it's going to last much longer. It's a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Blue Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 1 hour ago, CliftonM said: It's been down for a little while now. I don't think it's going to last much longer. It's a shame. Well, i hope it lasts at least a couple more months, till I can grab all the old versions of mods for my archives... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukethecoder64 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hmm.... If bandwidth/hosting is an issue, perhaps KS could be ported over to github pages? Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Patience, everyone. SirCmpwn has a life away from Kerbalstuff and the outage seems to have started on the weekend, I'm sure he will bring it back online as soon as he can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceplaneAddict Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I honestly donèt care if it's down or not, 'cause I will always wait. Curse sux too much for me to ditch KerbalStuff. Take your time, do what you want @SirCmpwn! Iz kewl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stibbons Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I have a) 15 years professional sysadmin experience b) a little bit of cash to spare to offset hosting costs How can I donate one or both of these to help keep KS running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avivey Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 8 minutes ago, stibbons said: I have a) 15 years professional sysadmin experience b) a little bit of cash to spare to offset hosting costs How can I donate one or both of these to help keep KS running? I second both of these (sort of). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiiZzioN Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) The archiving ability KerbalStuff has is to valuable to lose, in my personal opinion. Another thing that that I love is the emails I get when a mod updates. I don't have a ton of cash at the moment, but I'm willing to put some down to help the hosting costs. It'll have to wait till next month sadly due to how paychecks work... If @SirCmpwn would tell me where I can direct the payment, that'd be swell. Edit: Well, I just noticed that SirCmpwn hasn't been on the forums since December 9th. That's no fun... Edited February 15, 2016 by FiiZzioN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vist Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Would just like to give a shout out to SirCmpwn, for his effort in putting up and maintaining Kerbal Stuff site. Sorry to find out that you've decided to close your awesome site. Kerbal Stuff is WAY better than curse. https://kerbalstuff.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaintedLion Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Yeah, SirCmpwn has decided to close KerbalStuff. Man, this screws CKAN up. If Squad had only endorsed KS rather than Curse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekew11 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) Losing this gem is one hell of a punch in the gut for me, and for the KSP community at large. Upmost Respect to SirCmpwn for seeing this project through this far. Here's hoping we as a community can come together to get this site back up again one day soon. Edited February 15, 2016 by zekew11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malah Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 26 minutes ago, TaintedLion said: Yeah, SirCmpwn has decided to close KerbalStuff. Man, this screws CKAN up. If Squad had only endorsed KS rather than Curse... Hello, where have you seen that SirCmpwn has decided to close KerbalStuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaintedLion Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Just now, Malah said: Hello, where have you seen that SirCmpwn has decided to close KerbalStuff? Just go to kerbalstuff.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 4 minutes ago, Malah said: Hello, where have you seen that SirCmpwn has decided to close KerbalStuff? See kerbalstuff.com: Quote Kerbal Stuff is shutting down On June 1st 2014, I started working on Kerbal Stuff. 20 months have passed. 1,191 mods have been uploaded and 20,407 users registered with the site. Today, I am officially closing Kerbal Stuff. I'll explain how it came to this. I built Kerbal Stuff after the announcement that KSP mods were to be officially moved to Curse. At the time, and still today, I did not feel that Curse would do right by the kommunity. I stepped up to build an alternative that would be much better than the mess Curse would provide. I built Kerbal Stuff to do right by the kommunity where Squad wouldn't. I opened up a beta and got some modders on board, and Kerbal Stuff was very well received. It's fair to say that Kerbal Stuff decisively won the battle over Curse, providing hosting for nearly double the number of mods. It boils down to Kerbal Stuff simply being better at it. Kerbal Stuff had no ads for its entire lifetime, emailed users when their mods updated, and cared more about the modders and the players. Undoubtedly Kerbal Stuff has had a direct impact on Squad's revenue - how many players must have hopped back into Kerbal Space Program after getting an email about their favorite mod receiving an update? In the past month, despite frequent downtime and slow page loads, Kerbal Stuff has served 1.2 million page views over 279 thousand sessions for over 84 thousand unique visitors. As thanks, Squad continues to endorse Curse as the official source for KSP mods. They refuse to even mention Kerbal Stuff in public. During the early days, they even pursued me legally for the use of the word "Kerbal" in the name. Even setting Squad aside, running Kerbal Stuff is a largely thankless job. In fact, for the most part, I just hear complaints. Most people don't actually care about the effort put into it. Whenever I've taken the time to add features or make improvements or meet the requests of users, no one has shown any appreciation. I stopped volunteering my time and energy to extend this website, because my efforts were always met with silence or complaints. I don't have expectations of anyone. I don't expect anyone to gush over how great any new features I implement are. I don't expect Squad to support Kerbal Stuff as the official source for mods. However, these factors have contributed to the apathy I have for the ongoing maintenance of Kerbal Stuff. I'm not willing to invest more of my time and energy into making Kerbal Stuff faster or more stable. I have been well aware of the slowness and instability, but I simply have no motivation to fix it. I would like to thank those who have been supportive. Thanks to the volunteer admins for helping maintain the site. Thanks as well to the modders who chose to host their mods on Kerbal Stuff, and the users who chose to use it as their source for mods. All of the mods hosted on Kerbal Stuff are available via this torrent. The source code for Kerbal Stuff will continue to be available on Github. I can be reached at[email protected]. - Drew "SirCmpwn" DeVault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frango9000 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 i feel just like when I killed Jeb for the 1st time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stibbons Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 6 hours ago, stibbons said: How can I donate one or both of these to help keep KS running? Apparently that answer is now "start building a replacement". Alright then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narvster Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Oh wow, this is just awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarkRG Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Has anyone actually taken a look at the file structure of that torrent? I just did, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever... I don't currently have the space for 60GB so that I can sort through it properly, but with that file structure there's no way to find the individual mods I want. Well, anyway, here's a magnet link to the torrent (I think that should work) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acea Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I'll miss Kerbal Stuff like the old SpacePort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuudoushi Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 2 minutes ago, StarkRG said: Has anyone actually taken a look at the file structure of that torrent? I just did, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever... I don't currently have the space for 60GB so that I can sort through it properly, but with that file structure there's no way to find the individual mods I want. Well, anyway, here's a magnet link to the torrent (I think that should work) It's sorted (for the most part) by author name. It's still a freakishly large file.. 61.5 gb... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekew11 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 There is discussion on reddit of a community-driven re-boot that may be of interest to those here. With a good show of support this could potentially be less of an end and more of a change of caretakers, allowing us to keep our kerbalstuff and SirCmpwn to take a much deserved indefinitely long vacation from its daily maintenance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stibbons Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 4 minutes ago, StarkRG said: Has anyone actually taken a look at the file structure of that torrent? I just did, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever... Looks like a straight dump of the application's data directory. Top level is usernames and a unique ID, next level is mod name. The directory structure makes more sense in combination with the database. Not sure yet if it asking for a database dump would be productive or if it's better to start from scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarkRG Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 2 minutes ago, stibbons said: Looks like a straight dump of the application's data directory. Top level is usernames and a unique ID, next level is mod name. The directory structure makes more sense in combination with the database. Not sure yet if it asking for a database dump would be productive or if it's better to start from scratch. Yeah, I'm starting to see a slight order, still requires figuring out the mod author's directory. And there's a whole load of nearly empty directories too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMG Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Worst news for this month, maybe Squad should reconsider for an apology to SirCmpw, as well as all modders and lovers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceKraken Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) NOOO GOD! NO GOD PLEASE NO! NO! NOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! R.I.P kerbalstuff.com 2014 - 2016 Edited February 15, 2016 by SpaceKraken T_T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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