Honestly, don’t feel responsible. Truly and earnestly, I don’t think anyone is ‘to blame.’ It’s partially a limitation of discourse and partially that this kind of stuff becomes almost impossibly unwieldy to keep up to date with. If everyone’s posting their own uploads, every single animation is prone to dropping and maintenance grows exponentially.
My post wasn’t to point fingers, but to address an issue that I think is worth discussing.
Forcing people to post their animations twice to prop up a dying horse isn’t going to keep it alive.
I do/did not intend to make people post things twice. That, to me, is actually bad since it makes things more difficult for the creator to maintain and update.
I’ll also freely admit that plenty of people don’t care for this thread. I do. I just haven’t physically had time and thus never noticed just how much was missing.
Perhaps it was presumptive of me to declare this thread dead without first starting a discussion
This is the only complaint I have. No one person decides “hey this thing is old and bad”, the group as a whole ought to do that.
I don’t even care about “[giving] Klok credit” nor do I belive this is particularly worth debating nor anyone’s effort: Putting a “see here” as opposed to a full “this thread is old and bad” would be more appropriate in my opinion. It’s not really “deprecated”, it’s just fallen out of favor for the new blood and that’s perfectly acceptable and honestly a good thing that people look at the two and decide they enjoy one over the other.
The fact that this leads to the current situation of one being awful and the other being good is the same to me.
I was particularly upset that day in particular for other reasons that have no relevance, which is why I just reverted the opening blurb instead of starting discussion myself.
I’d argue that the root of the confusion stems from this site itself:
If I want to see a Library / Directory
I have to set the search to “Resources” and then select “Top”
and even then you won’t find everything.
Why can’t the mods pin the “core” topics to the top of the homepage
so that everyone knows where to post their stuff
instead of letting the hundreds of board members to selectively choose what to bookmark?
And the graphics part is kinda ok. Most works are grouped either here or the other topic.
Have you tried searching for music?
And I’d also pin some blame to the creators themselves:
You are creating dropbox links and you forget to maintain them and make back ups of them.
Can’t you guys just get some USBs with the exclusive job of backing up your DropBox?
The creators of this and of the other graphic repository are the last to be blamed
for problems that started from others.
Sheesh, I can’t rest with having broken-ass anims can I?
After a few reports of Axe and Handaxe in the Ephraim Repack being broken, I reuploaded an update that fixes the issue. Download link should be the same, but have at you, just in case!
Thank you, DerTheVaporeon. Your opinions are very accurate.
The first mistake actually I noticed and corrected, but it looks like I forgot to fix the preview.
With the power of working for free because this started as not my project and it became something entirely different and I need to do commissions to get myself a phone smh Klok’s motivation and Peerless’s cheers…
Here I bring you, Athlete/Linus!
This took aproximately 3 months to finish, and I would like to thank Klok and Peerless for their motivation, as well as Pikmin’s and Nuramon’s. As usual, I’ll credit 'em, as well as Greentea, who made the original animation.