Hi all,

 

It's been a while -- I thought I'd post an update on some work that we've finished.

 

File approval changes

I've just finished deploying some changes to our file approval process.

You will no longer need your file to be approved again to edit details of your file in the 'Upload new version' screen. 

Additionally, and this concerns script modifications the most, old versions of your file will be downloadable and your file will no longer be hidden (provided you leave an old version on the Upload a new version file list) whilst your new version is queued for approval. You will also be able to edit the file after the initial automated security check, and whilst the new file is waiting for approval.

This is still undergoing testing, and if you see any issues, feel free to message me.

 

Individual file tags (For downloads with multiple files)

Sometimes users can get confused on which version of your file to download. This is especially true for script mods, or mods which have extra files which aren't required. You can now choose to tag an individual file as 'Main file', 'Old version' or 'Extra'.

These tags will then show next to the file name on the file download page.

 

A reminder: Our advertising guidelines

Just a friendly reminder, our Guidelines state where advertising is provided, and it doesn't really include files. We have long overlooked this however, as we acknowledge the efforts mod authors put into their files and that for most files it isn't a problem.

However, we are starting to see more and more files where the entire description is nothing but an advertisement for a Discord.

We will start to take action if your file description is acting as nothing more than an advertisement. As an example, if your files description is 50% a Discord logo -- or your Discord link is size 36pt and the rest considerably smaller, we will request that you add substance to your description, or remove adverts.

We really don't want to go down the path of other sites with restricting the description to just plain text, so let's keep it classy!

 

Inside the File

Inside the File is back, which means for most files you can see what's in them before downloading. Check below the 'File Information' on the sidebar of a file page for an example.

 

Cheers

Cyan

16 hours ago, Cyan said:

 

Inside the File

Inside the File is back, which means for most files you can see what's in them before downloading. Check below the 'File Information' on the sidebar of a file page for an example.

 

 

Any chance of a case by case option to disable this?  For example, look at my file: 

 

That is not appealing, and adds unneeded scrolling.

 

If not the option to disable, maybe allow the author to minimize it by default?  Or is this an unavoidable part of having it enabled?

Edited April 18, 20197 yr by Reddington

There's not a way of disabling Inside the File at a per-file level at the moment.

3 hours ago, Cyan said:

There's not a way of disabling Inside the File at a per-file level at the moment.

 

Alright, thanks.

The file approval time is too long, some files have been available for several days, still can not download

3 minutes ago, AUG said:

The file approval time is too long, some files have been available for several days, still can not download

We have deployed a solution to this and allow authors to keep an old version of their files available to download whilst the new one is being approved.