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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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Where is everybody?
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JAKAS 
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Alright, this post has been up a grand total of 5 days tops... and it has 8 pages of replies.
I want to know, why does everyone flock to reply to News Articles, yet all of the chat forums are dead... It's kinda eerie to go onto the Upcoming BASIC Games Forum and find maybe (maybe) 1 post per month, then come here and see 2 pages per day.
Where's the beef?
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5 April 2005, 03:31 GMT
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Re: File Invitation System Announced
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angelboy
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Hmmm...are the typewriting monkeys going to help us with this? :)
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5 April 2005, 20:13 GMT
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Re: File Invitation System Announced
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Snave2000
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Horrible idea, even if it is a joke (it is, isn't it?...). This goes against the whole premise of the Archives, to provide a home for all programs great and small. I agree, however, that the number of BASIC programs does pose a browsing problem. This can be solved, though, simply by creating more specific directories.
e.g. Quadratic Solvers
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27 April 2005, 01:36 GMT
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