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File Invitation System Announced
Posted by Michael on 1 April 2005, 05:46 GMT
We will be moving within the next month to an invitation-only system for all BASIC programs in our archives. This will involve several stages. All BASIC programs will be removed from our archives. Backups will be kept and will be available upon request for authors who don't have a copy of their work. Now don't panic about your quadratic solvers just yet - you will be able to upload your programs back into our archives. The difference is that from now on an invitation code will be required to do so.
Each author in our archives will be given invitation codes, one per each ASM program. The assembly authors can then select BASIC programs to approve from a list of pending potential files. When an author is out of codes, that's it. This will accomplish two things: The number of BASIC programs and assembly programs will be at most a 1:1 ratio. This should clean up the quality of our BASIC programs and ensure only the innovative and well-written programs are in our archives. Second, we hope this will increase the number of program reviews as authors will be inspecting all of the BASIC programs closely. In the case of older programs where the original authors may no longer be active, we will be manually reviewing those programs and will put them into the approval queue as needed.
Before we finalize this drastic change, we are soliciting comments about the idea. Please post in this news article with any suggestions. In the interim, BASIC programmers can e-mail basic-invite@ticalc.org to request that when we purge the archives, their programs be automatically placed in a potential queue to be re-added. Please put, and only put the file id of your program in the subject line (one per e-mail). The content of the body does not matter. You can find the id of your files by the number in the URL of their file information pages (e.g. "12345.html").
I understand that many BASIC programmers are going to have misgivings about this, but please try to keep an open mind and realize that in the long run, our archives will be more relevant to visitors.
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File Invitation System Announced
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Kevin Boyer 
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Goddangit! I didn't even remember it being April Fools, for a few moments I was like: Hurray! Hurray! But alas... This would (in my opinion) be a pretty good idea. But no more.
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1 April 2005, 14:40 GMT
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Re: File Invitation System Announced
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tdavis07
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I don't like this a all. Even if it is a joke, it is a mean one. I have several useful BASIC programs. There not uploaded because I can't get my calc link to work. I've been trying to learn ASM, but it is rough. If anyone can recomend a ASM tutorial for the 83+/84+ let me know. The email idea is nice, but it doesn't look like it can be use to upload new files.
Mabey I should just fish and not worry about this.
Walleye what I want...
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1 April 2005, 14:43 GMT
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April, fools!
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Timmc
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I waited until April 2nd to visit ticalc.org to see April 1st news post; knowing the time difference; and OMG! YUS! Basic is teh kewlness!
Giving users such responsibility will go largely unused with a lot of the archive not being downloaded often (excluding spider downloaders) and when they're the user doesn't bother to rate the file.
Although a few more sections could be added to the Basic archives. Specific Games folders and subjects for Math programs... and Science/Chemistry/Physics etc. That would atleast sort out the junk.
Bandwidth shouldn't really be such an issue with the archive being about 600MB (not including PC related software) and serving a little over 30,000 files. *random guesses at stats*
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1 April 2005, 15:55 GMT
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