HOLY DOWNTIME

[Snowcone]

Sorry for the site issues this week everyone. About noon east coast time we got hit with a spike of about 600,000 requests that triggered a DDOS mechanism with our host and CDN and they took it all down. It took me until later that night to get service back online. I have no clue if it was malicious or someone trying to script a download of all the covers that went sideways. Either way, not good.

[marioxb]

It's all good now! Great to see you back, man! Now, about those uploads...

[Tech13]

wow. that is crazy if someone attempted to datamine the site.

[Bear78]

Sorry for the site issues this week everyone. About noon east coast time we got hit with a spike of about 600,000 requests that triggered a DDOS mechanism with our host and CDN and they took it all down. It took me until later that night to get service back online. I have no clue if it was malicious or someone trying to script a download of all the covers that went sideways. Either way, not good.

Thanks for getting it back online man.

[Patman]

If it was someone trying to get all the covers, it may not be a horrible idea to get a torrent up of the site's content if that's not too much of a pain in the ass.

[Tech13]

If it was someone trying to get all the covers, it may not be a horrible idea to get a torrent up of the site's content if that's not too much of a pain in the ass.

In the past others have requested this and been met with a resounding NO!

Anyone who needs fast access to every cover on the site does not have good intentions in mind.

[ShoothimNow]

Patman, why would you need that many covers.  You obviously don't own have every game in existence.  If you don't own them, then why do you need them.

I'm not calling you out, just saying.  In over 10+ years of people crying and pleading for torrent collections, not one person has persuaded us otherwise.

[PX0]

If it was someone trying to get all the covers, it may not be a horrible idea to get a torrent up of the site's content if that's not too much of a pain in the ass.

I agree, that bulk downloads can make sense.

But the mayor issue with bulk downloads would be the additional cost and work it might require. Even a torrent would have to be managed and might need a paid account. This site is free and has almost no income. So compromises have to be made.  

Snowcone has still not managed to address the broken upload in almost half a year now. That makes it seem unlikely that there will ever be any other sort of changes to the site.  

[wiggy]

If it was someone trying to get all the covers, it may not be a horrible idea to get a torrent up of the site's content if that's not too much of a pain in the ass.

In the past others have requested this and been met with a resounding NO!

Anyone who needs fast access to every cover on the site does not have good intentions in mind.

They could be well intentioned. When I was building my white N64 covers I needed to download every available N64 cover plus a ton of raw scans and such.  And I’ve downloaded a ton of other covers for personal use as well (usually to extract logos from).

[Snowcone]

Snowcone has still not managed to address the broken upload in almost half a year now. That makes it seem unlikely that there will ever be any other sort of changes to the site.  

Believe it or not, I don't come to the forums daily so sometimes things like this don't hit my radar for a really long time. I'm committed to keeping this site online on my dime for as long as possible, which for the moment is forever.

[Snowcone]

If it was someone trying to get all the covers, it may not be a horrible idea to get a torrent up of the site's content if that's not too much of a pain in the ass.

It's not a bad idea, but if we do that, then we should shut down the site and move this to a reddit community with associated BT content. At that point our content quality might suffer and the community might wither. I'd love to facilitate this type of bulk downloading but the other side to this is that anyone could build a new version of our site overnight. So it's a strange double edged sword here.

[Bear78]

Snowcone has still not managed to address the broken upload in almost half a year now. That makes it seem unlikely that there will ever be any other sort of changes to the site.  

Believe it or not, I don't come to the forums daily so sometimes things like this don't hit my radar for a really long time. I'm committed to keeping this site online on my dime for as long as possible, which for the moment is forever.

Thanks for getting it fixed and for hosting the site man!  Honestly, if you ever want to take donations for the site, I'd be happy to chip in a few bucks to help out.  I know hosting isn't cheap let alone being the primary admin.   

[Snowcone]

Snowcone has still not managed to address the broken upload in almost half a year now. That makes it seem unlikely that there will ever be any other sort of changes to the site.  

Believe it or not, I don't come to the forums daily so sometimes things like this don't hit my radar for a really long time. I'm committed to keeping this site online on my dime for as long as possible, which for the moment is forever.

Thanks for getting it fixed and for hosting the site man!  Honestly, if you ever want to take donations for the site, I'd be happy to chip in a few bucks to help out.  I know hosting isn't cheap let alone being the primary admin.   

We had a donation link in the early days but i never want folks to feel compelled to throw money my way. paypal@snackbar-games.com is the best way though

[Tech13]

Snowcone has still not managed to address the broken upload in almost half a year now. That makes it seem unlikely that there will ever be any other sort of changes to the site.  

Believe it or not, I don't come to the forums daily so sometimes things like this don't hit my radar for a really long time. I'm committed to keeping this site online on my dime for as long as possible, which for the moment is forever.

Thanks for getting it fixed and for hosting the site man!  Honestly, if you ever want to take donations for the site, I'd be happy to chip in a few bucks to help out.  I know hosting isn't cheap let alone being the primary admin.   

We had a donation link in the early days but i never want folks to feel compelled to throw money my way. paypal@snackbar-games.com is the best way though

There should be a tasteful way to passively mention the ability to donate.  It should look official so that people know the money is going to the right cause.

[PX0]

Snowcone has still not managed to address the broken upload in almost half a year now. That makes it seem unlikely that there will ever be any other sort of changes to the site.  

Believe it or not, I don't come to the forums daily so sometimes things like this don't hit my radar for a really long time. I'm committed to keeping this site online on my dime for as long as possible, which for the moment is forever.

It is not about you personally. I am sure, you have your reasons and I know, that you don't do this for profit.

I just feel like 6 month response time is way too much and I wish there would be more comunication with users.
It is alright, if you are not able to fix an issue right away, but at least let people know that you are aware of the problem and that it will get fixed eventually.

It is nice to hear that you still feel commited to this project though.