Suggesting a community dropbox/fileshare

[Tiny 16]

Hello everyone, yo' favourite post spammer here;

So a big part of the community is uploading demos/videos etc.

I was thinking, since we have some donation money to play with, why not get a dropbox or group filesharing account.

Fast upload and download speeds would definitely make both member and mod/admin jobs easier. For example, UL/DL'ing a demo of a cheat/freekiller/wallhacker.

An example would be a Mediafire account.

Just a suggestion, thoughts?

~ Tiny.

[Shadow 0]

Dropbox has helped me last year to work out a project with my friend. Is there a limit to the amount of people on 1 shared folder? I know there is a size limit but not sure about people.

If you do this, don't forget to take the proper security measures ( don't give all people full access ).

[Tiny 16]

I don't know enough to comment =/ will have to wait for some more responses. Whaddya think people!

[Kriss 35]

You can Share files trough forum...

[Tiny 16]

Certain file types can't be uploaded to the forum according to Gaz, including .dem.

[Gaz 13]

yes .dem is the file type source demos record to. so i can neve rupload them except through external uploader

[Bogs 0]

If I recall if you get a link from dropbox and spread it around the forum, so we all click it, It gives us more uses of the dropbox or maybe its bigger files can be uploaded.

[Jordan 278]

i would more than be happy to donate some money to help towards this if it does get chosen to do..

i believe it would make the Admins/Mods and us members life easier to upload and download these files..

[Shadow 0]

Last year, I had to make a website for uploading / downloading as a project. It's not hard to put an uploader somewhere that can upload 1 file at a time ( I had to make for multiple files, worked offline but not on the school server for some unknown reason ). Just checked and seems the site is still there LOL.

Anyway, maybe you could add it somewhere. The major problem that I see happening though, website is made with php and I'm not sure if you can do it in there as easily as with aspx ( in which I had to do it ).

[Proxima 1]

It's a good idea. But I think we can find ways without having to pay. So the money can be spend in other things maybe.

[McLovin 4]

If only people would only look at the end of this tutorial.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=648

Anyway awnsers to your questions:

No there is no user liimit. But the storage limit is the real problem.

Other then that it will be ones again a new thing for us to manage.

[Tiny 16]

Delegation, Mclovin! ^^

But if you think it's too much fuss, then no problem. Was just a small idea anyway :)

Like Proxima said, i'm sure there's a better use for the money

[Shadow 0]

If only people would only look at the end of this tutorial.

http://outbreak-community.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=648

If only you saw who needs to answer the question...