Simfile Database

[Rebirth0]

Re: Simfile Database

Nobody is going to put in enough money for $200 a month and I'm not paying that by myself anyway so yeah. We would be doing simple web hosting for now

[Ohaider]

Re: Simfile Database

If this were to be done, would we FINALLY be able to retrieve our old files from pre-crash days? Last time we inquired, Velocity said there was no space on the site.

Old Database was trashed, no remnants

t's what i heard

[Charlo]

Re: Simfile Database

Nobody is going to put in enough money for $200 a month and I'm not paying that by myself anyway so yeah. We would be doing simple web hosting for now

Right, if it ever got to the point of a dedicated server you would probably need ads to raise the money, since donations will never be enough.

[cedolad]

Re: Simfile Database

Right, if it ever got to the point of a dedicated server you would probably need ads to raise the money, since donations will never be enough.

I doubt it would pull enough traffic to get a significant amount of coin from ads.

[DigitalS3r4ph]

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I need a place to be able to upload my new simfiles and share with friends.

[blindreper1179]

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Just make a "minipack" and put it on mediafire. Or get izzy to put it on his simfile database.

[Charlo]

Re: Simfile Database

So should I work on a database design/site design/feature description? Even if this never comes to fruition (like most ambitious stepmania plans...lol), I could always use the practice. Anybody else could help too (don't want to seem like an egomaniac ).

[kommisar]

Re: Simfile Database

find someone with an ftp willing to let you host simfiles


otherwise, mediafire

[xferrarix]

Re: Simfile Database

single releases are fine for now imo, its not like theyre huge downloads

if anything if you want to keep to this whole pack idea basis, make 2 or 3 files and put it all in one zip onto mediafire and post the zip. 20~25MB downloads are pretty fast and usually take around one to three minutes. it'd be cool if we could get a database up like the old FFR one again. i used FFR for single releases all the time when it was around

[Rebirth0]

Re: Simfile Database

So should I work on a database design/site design/feature description? Even if this never comes to fruition (like most ambitious stepmania plans...lol), I could always use the practice. Anybody else could help too (don't want to seem like an egomaniac ).

If you wanted to try and make something I would not be opposed. I can explain what to make and how. But I'm still not really sure if this is happening yet. I'm not committing to anything if I'm the only person paying for it and there's not a community attached. (RF)

[cedolad]

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If I were in a better financial situation I'd pitch in, but I couldn't commit at the moment. Unless we figured out exactly what we needed and if it were cheap enough etc.

[Rebirth0]

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I actually can't imagine it being more than $10 per month until it got very large. I just don't know what the bandwidth usage is going to be like with 100+ potential packs being uploaded and being downloaded every day

[cedolad]

Re: Simfile Database

Rebirth, we (me, you and Charlo since we're the only ones that serious) should maybe talk about this more privately, figure out the host and such and get organized.

[Rebirth0]

Re: Simfile Database

Added you on skype but I don't see Charlo with any contact info

[Patashu]

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I am all for a new simfile database, but the process of discovery and recommendation needs to be possible in it. Think about how in bemanistyle if you wanted to try new files you had to have a song name, song artist or simfile artist in mind already - there was no tagging system, no way to search for only pad or only keyboard files, by difficulty, by genre, by files that people who like the same files as you like, etc etc etc. If you need any help with that kind of thing (either conceptual or implementation) give me an IM, I might be able to help