Update: Webspace

Sounds bad.
Those who did not upload random trashy stuff and went inactive won't have their works online then.

Try
http://www.globat.com/ 100 gb of disk space 1000 Gigs/Month data transfer, $6,95 month
or
http://www.powweb.com 20 gb of disk space 400 Gigs/Month data transfer, $5,77 month

SFilipWoW models should be removed or at least limited (by size...?) IMO. they are high-poly, huge-sized and, hell, some of them are just dumped here as "omg look at me, i extracted a model from wow, i am so smart, credit me for the extra hard 5 minutes this took". there is a tutorial about extracting them somewhere on these forums so the people that have WoW can extract them. as for the others...well using those models would kind of be illegal for them anyway unless they own the game.

What do you mean illegal to use WoW models? They're made by Blizzard. And if they are illegal to use, then they're illegal for everyone.

This is an funeral.
Glory be to wc3sear.ch and farewell

Just a question with NO OFFENSE.
But is darky still caring for everything that happens arround + is he still download those maps?

It would be stupid when this website goes down :s
~Fl4meS

This site had convinced me of map making since that time where wc3sear was realated with wc3campaigns. I do regret if this site is dead.

Supposedly i think we REALLY need to restart this site from the beginning. Downloading how much we are over the quota would just make ppl wait longer.

I do think; Darky, that setting up a new web or watever and putting a rather more strict rule to maps would be better. Maybe link all the tools which are posted in wc3campaigns probably? wc3campaigns have more updated tools and we have the unupdated versions.

Usually Id rather hang around in wc3sear than wc3camapgins but now its the opposite.

Sad Story eh, seeing a great modding site going down.

It would also maybe be better that we get more news. Currently we are just having these 'negative' thoughts meanwhile it isn't nessessary at last.
So any MODERATOR that knows something MORE?
~Fl4meS

Restart the site or mass purge, and then more strict rules in the future!

That's all we need...

Yay remake the site.
Only prob for me is what is my models is in the hands of this site... if this site goes down, all my hard work is lost forever....
I'm torn, whether to say to wait it out or trash everything...
--donut3.5--

did anyone already get that "purge/restart" and other stuff will NOT help anything?
Provider blocked uploads and until he gets what he want (more money) it will be disabled. This web has great traffic, disc space and generaly consumes lot of all server performance. Even if we delete everything, it doesnt mean that provider will turn it on.
From providers sigth it is only troublemaking site wich generates small (yes, it is relative) income for it.

AlvatarThis web has great traffic

I would agree with the rest, but this one is not true.

Well, for the first we need more webspace if we want to prevent this site from dying. To get some, we have to know
- how much additional webspace is probably needed for the next year
- how much traffic may be probably.
Without knowing these things, people simply are not able to help fast and efficient, so please someone who knows it - post it, finally!

To get rid of these bad quality ressources in the future, but on the other hand still offer more or less beginners to look at their comments and learn from it, I suggest a script that adds something like a life timer to all new submissions.
When this timer expires (e.g. after 10 days), the ressource will be automatically deleted. Any moderator can disable the timer, if he thinks the map is worth to remain in the database for longer.
To prevent that some ressources are checked by many moderators and some by none, there could be a little flag only viewable for mods, that shows wether a ressource has been checked or not.

This was just my little try to help...

the main problem with that idea would be that if a mod didnt get to it ( I.E it got instantly flooded out, or mods didnt have enough time to review 20 maps per day ) then it would be deleted, no matter whether or not it should be.

Well, for this case you can also insert a condition for deleting, that the flag "checked by mod" is activated. That should not be the problem, am I right?
Maybe it's best to hide the flag and the timer from normal users anyways.

Alright, just got done reading all 8 pages and I think I have some alright ideas. One problem people seem to be having is losing good files. Maybe we could shut the site down for awhile and let the moderators go through and decide which files will be kept and which files will be ditched. This would take awhile so we would just have to wait knowing that it's for the greater good. Then, to slow down a repeat of this fiasco, resources will require approval before entering the site to be downloaded. Moderators should be able to choose which files are to be deleted regardless of the rules (not that there shouldn't be rules) and people who care about this site shouldn't complain. I don't know how possible this is 'cause I don't know how managing a website works, but if it is possible it seems like a pretty good idea to me.[/b]