GHF's New Mod Hosting/Download Area

[Fliggerty]

The GHF Council is very excited to debut our new  Downloads area!!!!  

We have been working for quite some time to get this put together and ready for public use.  Rather than simply using forum post attachments, this is an entire dedicated file hosting system.  Being based upon the platform I built for Morrowind Modding History, this was designed specifically for mods.  

There some nifty features we want to emphasize:

• Upload files up to 300MB in size.
• Attach unlimited additional files to a single download entry.
• Include as many screenshots as you wish.
• Full BBCode support in descriptions; this means you can style your text, include images, even embed YouTube videos!
• Authors can enable/disable public comments and screenshot uploading.
• We are constantly working on improving SEO; so search engines everywhere will be able to quickly find your files.

Now, to address some potential technical concerns you may have:

• We run a full rsync backup to a remote server every night.  There is also a weekly compressed file backup done which is stored on a 3rd server that is in a different physical location.  Your files will never be lost.
• We run up-to-the-minute database backups on a remote server.  So comments and descriptions and other changes are mirrored almost immediately.
• There are several layers of security.  We won't get into details here, so let it suffice to say we have confidence.
• All of the GHF network sites run on an OnApp-driven VPS cloud.  As such, no single point of hardware failure can have a long-term effect on the stability of the sites.  And the SAN that runs our particular VPS is hosted in a Tier III secure data center.

Now...don't you want to join the recent rush and upload your mods here now?  


--The GHF Council

[Leonardo]

The new download are is now public. Party time!!!      

[silver_fox_rival undefined]

Sweet! Now we can solve all of that confusion and an excess of threads that are not needed as well. Yay!

[Crankgorilla]

Very good. I'll have to set aside some time this evening to have an inspect proper. Remember to update your Twitter feed on the new update GHF.  

[sassman]

• We run a full rsync backup to a remote server every night.  There is also a weekly compressed file backup done which is stored on a 3rd server that is in a different physical location.  Your files will never be lost.
• We run up-to-the-minute database backups on a remote server.  So comments and descriptions and other changes are mirrored almost immediately.
• There are several layers of security.  We won't get into details here, so let it suffice to say we have confidence.
• All of the GHF network sites run on an OnApp-driven VPS cloud.  As such, no single point of hardware failure can have a long-term effect on the stability of the sites.  And the SAN that runs our particular VPS is hosted in a Tier III secure data center.

Dayam, Fliggerty!  Do you have teams of Ninja Monkeys guarding the data center, too?  I DEFINITELY wanna store my mods here.  This sounds like the Fort Knox of Morrowind Modding files!  

[Wollibeebee]

good job team-F!

[Midgetalien]

yay

Better finish uploading my mods then...

[latendresse76 Avoiding Ilsa Lund]

Dayam, Fliggerty!  Do you have teams of Ninja Monkeys guarding the data center, too?  I DEFINITELY wanna store my mods here.  This sounds like the Fort Knox of Morrowind Modding files!  

I don't consider my self a Ninja Monkey!

any how you got mods there... sassman! Do you have a preference on how your name is [s]displaced[/s] displayed there?

I guess it wasn't noted that All mods that were hosted in the forums have been transferred and those with screens and Mirror links have been been added to the pages for each.

If there are and issues that need some help feel free to PM me. If i can help I will if it needs to go to the Boss man it will.

[sassman]

I don't consider my self a Ninja Monkey!

any how you got mods there... sassman! Do you have a preference on how your name is [s]displaced[/s] displayed there?

Well, some variation on "The SASS Man" would be perfect, Latendresse.  I saw they were up there, BTW.  Nice site.  I'll have another mod archive to throw up online soon, too...possibly a couple.

[Arthmoor]

Always good to have another mirror.

One problem, minor, but there. When entering the description during the initial upload submission, the formatting is lost. I had to go back into the edit interface to restore the spacing between paragraphs.

The screenshot upload button also doesn't seem to recognize when a file is selected. Maybe that can only be done after the entry is approved though so now that mine have been I'll try it again.

Oh, and we could do with a "Cities, Towns, and Villages" category.

[Fliggerty]

Thanks for the bug reports.  I know of the formatting thing, and will put a fix in place as soon as possible.

As for the screenshot button, are you getting any browser javascript errors?  What browser are you using?  And is it giving you the option to put in a caption after you select a file?

[Arthmoor]

No javascript errors.
I click "upload screenshots". It opens the box to pick a file. I click browse. The window opens to select one. I pick a file. Nothing after that happens. The file selection box shows no text, nothing in the small box immediately above it changes. I never get to a point of being asked for a caption.

Firefox 6.0 release version. I don't have NoScript installed so it isn't being randomly blocked.

[Fliggerty]

I have fixed the bug with the initial description losing formatting.

I cannot replicate the problems with the screenshot uploads.  I've tried it in several browsers, all with perfect success.  I am curious if anyone else can replicate it?

Do you happen to have the Firefox extension Firebug?  If so, please open the Firebug console and refresh the page then try it again.  That will tell you if there are indeed any javascript errors of any sort.

[Arthmoor]

Downloaded Firebug, and wouldn't you know it, came back and the upload form worked?

However, it is still throwing an error:

a(this).closest is not a function
http://download.fliggerty.com/js/jquery ... 1.4.min.js
Line 26

There were others too but the image uploaded so fast I couldn't catch them.

Slight correction - it only wants to work as long as Firebug's console is open. How weird is that?

Er... ok. Nope. It's because the javascript isn't loading on the page each time.
The form only works when this is displayed in Firebug: GET http://download.fliggerty.com/js/tiny_mce.js 200 OK

[Fliggerty]

So sometimes js/tiny_mce.js isn't loading?  When you are experiencing the problem, if you view the source, can you view the contents of that file?

[Arthmoor]

Exactly, sometimes it doesn't load. I notice though that the GET header is looking for tiny_mce.js but in your HTML source, you've got the script line looking for tinymce.js - without the underscore. Maybe it's trying to load two different versions of itself?