Here's a thought, which took time to logically develop: Charge people $.05 or $.10 per file to host it. That would cut down on trash uploaded and give ticalc.org's staff some salary, bringing in lots of dough. With that in mind, featured programs could be exempt, but those files already on the site, if the author can't be contacted, may pose a problem. A solution is to contact all available authors and make payment plans or delete files, and for the staff to pick which problem files to keep (those whose author can't be contacted). I know this is a free site, but I'm sure ALOT of people would actually pay for file hosting, I know I would.

Wrong. They would put up a website of their own instead and advertise the links. Alternatively, other free archives might spring up here and there. You can't expect anyone but the mentally challenged to pay for silly calc stuff.

Good point. People already advertise links to save their own bandwidth and user space (ie Cemetech) and their are other free archives which don't do that (ie RBP II), so I guess the idea really is fruitless.

This is a FREE site... most people would probably think, "If I have to pay to share my programs, why share them at all?"

Oops, I hope ten was good, I better go check....

I have an idea. What if there were more than one rating category for controls/UI, stability, graphics, etc. Then if a file got a really bad or good rating you'd have an idea of why.

The problem is that different types of files would probably need different categories. "Graphics" would make sense for games, but wouldn't apply to math programs, for instance.

Of course you could always give a review for the program to go into more detail.

I just noticed a way that it looks like you ALMOST celebrated pi day...when you vote for a file, look at the html location...just glancing at it, the endl looked like ".pi"...unfortunately, it is just ".pl"...can this be changed, redeeming the ticalc website once again? or if it is changed will it make that page unopenable? Hmmm....I'm going to check a website I know to see if there are any ".pi" extensions.... ;)

hehe...there's three of 'em...go to http://filext.com/ detaillist.php? extdetail=pi&goButton=Go (without the spaces) or just click the link and take out the spaces (or the "%20"'s)...

Wow! Pi extensions! LOL- one is associated with a virus :-D

And, no, the PERL wouldn't run if it was .pi

can be changed in the MIME conf file. ;)
Well, theorycally at least, I've not tested it anyway...

Possibly symlink to the real file? I'm not sure if httpd would handle that properly, though.

Hmm. What happened to the whole 'hiring a new staff member' thing?

We're slow!

Where is the "reviewer's toplist"? (see update: implimented reviewer's toplist)

Don't you think you are asking for too much?

look at "recent updates" it says it was implimented, but I can't find it anywhere

nevermind, I found it. See link

Wow, they added reviews written to account info (the orange button)

geez... nice :P

Oh, that's cool! I like that idea! :)

Ahh, when I click on an icon in a profile to see a review that they wrote, it doesn't work... this happening to anybody else?

I never even knew that feature existed, but i tried it on your profile and got the "404 error page"

The only one I tried before had multible reviews, I just tried the ones you reviewed, and got an error, maybe they did a link to "see X more reviews for this file" page, which does not exist for most reviewed files.

I've gone throgh some more and I can comfirm, only games (and programs) with multible reviews can be reaached from the "files reviewed" link in the author info page. Someone should fix this.