I will offer a free service so everyone can easily share all the Quake files.
Are there any special things apart from "upload and get the download link" you would need/use? There will be different folders so it is a bit organised (models, movies, maps, blah).

what about some anti spam? or maybe a queue where everything thats uploaded ends in a temp dir, and you have to approve it before it gets moved to the correct and public location

Thats great Spirit. Fair play
How much space will the service be able to provide for?

ftp access?

anti spam: Good idea but that would break "oh I have that file and want to share it NOW" situations. Would be no problem if I cast some people from around the world who get admin access.

Space: Let's say 100gb for a start? :B

ftp: Rather not, that would cost extra. I would agree to give access to subfolders for very selected people though.

man thats another qw-related website. maybe we should buy www.quakeworld.EU domain and link everypossible subsites (qw.nu news site, qwdrama, wiki, schedule, eql's, nqr's, future duelmania_to_be, this file service and more) to this domain.

update: lol quakeworld.eu => besmella quake :E wtf. its aussie isnt it?

rofl.

yeah they have been out buying alot of domains lately, maybe they recieved alot of donations back when they could not afford their hosting.

besmella.com
quakeworld.eu
quakeworld.biz
besmella-quake.com



Anyways Spirit, then the temp dir could just be public too.
I'm just afraid that if it's public that the site might end up as a junkyard for non-qw related files.
And that would be very sad

that .eu thing is particularly a pain in the ass, a very funny joke indeed

rofl, I rather see besmella having .eu than qw.nu or qwdrama.com
I have no grudge against them so you know, but qw.nu isn't updated very often, and "the new" qw.nu hasn't really come up yet..

New qw.nu will be delivered along with Duke Nuke'm forever.

I did not say that i had anything against it either, i also find it pretty funny that besmella has the .eu domain

it truly is

Man how long we been waiting for duke now...6years?

6 years?

I heard about Duke Nukem Forever since I heard about Prey (1997)

Stop discussing old bollocks and get back to suggestions for me please.

dirtbox bought those domains out of his own pocket, so he could offer the community custom Quake related email addresses. We don't get much in the way of donations, but we are eternally grateful for those we do receive.

Some of us may be Australian, but we have a policy of promoting anything Quake related, regardless of what part of the world it relates to. Hence my promotion of tourneys I'll never play in, servers I'll never play on, community stuff totally unrelated to my country etc. As long as it's Quake, we'll help spread the word.

maby a registration and log in func? -_-r would be nice...

Hm, what for? I hate needing to register if I just want to upload something.

agree with Spirit

agree, + 1

agreed +2

It's ok. You don't need to spam.
Let's hope I'll get it done before Christmas, heh.

GAH! log in ftw! ^^ you can have a "remeber me", if you're so lazy...

would be nice with a qw torrent site

man i really want a site for uploading quake files.
my aquashark.go.ro account got suspended :/

might be up until the end of november!

For torrents you can easily use a public tracker. Just use their announce url and upload the .torrent file anywhere (don't use piratebay though, they are often slow as hell...). My host forbids setting up a tracker otherwise there already would be one. Clients like Azureus and µtorrent support DHT and can act as tracker themselves btw.

GODIS!: I still don't see why you want to register if you don't need to?

lol dude so just put it up and don't hype us? :/

I could need one or two betatester in the next few days. Mail me if you are interested.


What extensions do we need except those: .jpg, .png, .gif, .tga, .pcx, .zip, .7z, .rar, .tar.gz, .exe, .mpg, .mpg, .avi, .xvid, .divx, .ogg, .mp3, .pak, .pk3, .mdl, .md3, .cfg, .bsp?

too bad about the ftp access being too costly. Will you be running this off a dedicated local server? Or a remote server storage service?