Hi Marc,
after initiating this whole debate by
"stepping on Darkmiss' feet" (sorry for that!)
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2442&start=0,
I really appreciate your efforts for 'unification' of this venture, as well
as your initiative of creating a WEBring.
But after quite a bit of thinking about the internal /conception/ of
'webring.com', I guess it is better if you follow Don's friendly recommendation,
Don. Edwards wrote:As far as Fridger's comments, just ignore him. Let him do and go his
own way.
although he probably meant it in a slightly different sense;-).
Let me try to give you at least a flavor of what concerned me:
We are about to commit quite a bit of the marvelously uncommercial
spirit of Celestia and its friends into the hands of this thoroughly
commercial site. I think there is a basic mismatch of 'philosophy'.
...even if we play 'tricks', like you suggested, by
-- entering incorrect birthdays and email addresses,
-- switching on our 'commercial popup suppressors' (which I do not
have in Linux;-))
-- reducing their 'navigation' bar to a minimum
-- etc
As usual, most Americans will find my feelings exaggerated in this
respect...
Next, some of you might even remember that my 'Celestia Texture Foundry'
was the first dedicated Celestia texture site of its kind. Now there
are almost as many as there are different textures;-). I am very happy with
this trend. Probably, my site is simply coming a little to age and
needs some new input and fresh thoughts. Of course, it would most of
all need a little more spare time as concerns myself.
Hence, indeed
Don. Edwards wrote:As far as Fridger's comments, just ignore him. Let him do and go his
own way.
Unless there is a truly uncommercial WEBring
somewhere, let me at least mention that my personal preferences would go
much more into the directions Christophe proposed and Chris picked up
enthusiastically,
chris wrote:Christophe wrote:...Something like
KDE look for
example.
Then the next step would be to build an interface to that repository
inside Celestia to automate the download and installation of add-ons,
a Windows Update for Celestia if you will.
This would be brilliant . . . I'd offer shatters.net, but I don't
have the bandwidth. Last week, over 30GB of traffic (almost entirely
Celestia-related) went over my DSL line. If my line was saturated
every second for a week, I could handle about 36GB, i.e. I'm scarily
close to maxing out my connection.
Christophe, do you know anyplace that would host an official add-on repository?
--Chris
Christophe wrote:I see two possible solutions:
I can try and get free hosting from the company I work for, that would
be shared hosting probably with limited storage but a very big
pipe. I'll keep you posted on this.
Or, I've been thinking of getting my own dedicated server from
Lost Oasis (warning, French
ahead). That would give me a lot of space but limited bandwidth
especially with international traffic. Anybody who's experimented with
an
Open Brick is welcome to
comment on it.
During our extensive collaboration on Celestia's code, I was happy to
discover that apart from our mother tongues Christophe an I tend to speak
much of the 'same language' in various other respects...;-)
Bye Fridger
