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emanuele:

--- Quote from: Arantor on May 07, 2012, 03:47:22 PM ---Mods on the official page also carry the burden of 'supporting it for ever and ever' and if you don't, you will be raged against. Some people even suggest that anything published on the official mod site should be taken off its author and onto a new maintainer if the author fails to keep it up to date.

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That's a slightly different (and probably more complex) problem.
But still potentially related.


--- Quote from: Elmacik on May 08, 2012, 02:07:17 AM ---I didn't mean that they could steal and release in another place. I meant they could by-pass the mod site while releasing their own mod and open topics here just like you did. :) And any team member won't be able to tell him/her: "hey, go submit your mod to the mods site, don't create topics here".
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I suspected I misinterpreted your post after having posted.
BTW it's the same: you already have plenty of mods sitting in this board and in others.
There are plenty of sites around the web that distribute mods (I have all my mods (uploaded or not to the mods site) available at github).
None of these is (and cannot) in any way be "controlled" by the member of the SMF team.

BTW, as far as I understood the mod site it isn't a way to control the mods, it's more a repository of mods so that people looking for something can easily find what they are looking for. "In addition" a "service" (to both the modders and the end users) is provided (that is the approval process) that tries to look at potential issues in the mod (of course there is all the discussion about the effectiveness of this step, but it would be completely out of topic here...that is already out of topic...), but SMF doesn't have any interest in control mods distribution in any way (that's my personal understanding and opinion).

Publishing mods here I'm just renouncing the service (of course this has implications for end users, but I wrote a warning in the second line of my first post, if they don't read it it's neither my fault nor my problem) and the common repository, nothing less, nothing more.


--- Quote from: Elmacik on May 08, 2012, 02:07:17 AM ---
--- Quote from: emanuele --- ...  available to the entire community ...
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Is this the same idea with:


--- Quote from: emanuele --- ... less people will find my mods ...
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:P

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Yes, the fact that something is available doesn't mean it's easy to find! It's a sort of NP-complete problem. :P

Elmacik:

--- Quote from: emanuele ---There are plenty of sites around the web that distribute mods
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Yep right; but this site is not one of them; this one is "official" for SMF. There at least must be coordination of the things in the site.


--- Quote from: emanuele ---Yes, the fact that something is available doesn't mean it's easy to find!
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Right; but wishing something to be useful for the community is contradictory to wishing community wouldn't find it. :)

Arantor:
You can argue but I don't think you're going to win this one. It is useful for the community in that it exists at all, but I'd argue that putting it on the main mod site puts an overhead on emanuele that he does not wish.

If he were compelled to put them on the web site, the odds are these mods wouldn't exist at all. Thus in the sense of lesser of two evils, being here rather than being on the mod site as opposed to not existing, this is clearly the lesser evil.

Elmacik:
Of course this is not arguing, thus there won't be any winning ;) Whatever, it was just an opinion, "for the community". :)

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