nnnik wrote:You know I don't want to say that the same thing is going to happen with this new forum but you know everything I stored in Copy/Dropbox is still there, my autohotkey.net files are all lost.
It took a while, but I think we learned a few thing after the AutoHotkey.net catastrophe.
First of all, nothing, I repeat,
nothing is permanent. Whether it be Google.com, Dropbox.com, or ImOnlyAroundUntilChristmas.com, nothing lasts forever. For an active site like AutoHotkey.com or AHKScript.com, members are the most fleeting commodity of all. Losing the data on AutoHotkey.net was tough but finding out that some of the data was lost forever because some of the authors were long gone was even more of a blow.
Dropbox appears to be a great solution (I'm using it for now) but it is just one of hundreds, maybe thousands, of companies offering the exact same thing. It seems improbable right now but Dropbox will fall off the face of the earth, eventually. With the large number of competitors out there, it may be sooner rather than later. Another possibility would be for Dropbox to convert to a pay-only model or reduce the free accounts to an unusable small size.
Next, people make mistakes and stuff happens. After the AutoHotkey.net data loss, we discovered that there was no viable backup. Whether it was because of irresponsibility or other reasons (Ex: corrupt backup), we'll probably never know. An AHKScript.net solution runs the risk of the same problem. Periodic backups
should reduce the risk but all solutions depend on people and people make mistakes blah blah blah.
I wasn't doing it a first but I now use a two-tier method for publishing stuff on the forum. I move
a copy of whatever file I'm posting to a separate and unique folder within a "AutoHotkey Forum" folder on my hard drive. I then copy that file to whatever file service I'm using at the time -- AutoHotkey.net in the past, Dropbox.com for now, and AHKScript.net or ???? in the future. I then create a post with a link to the file. If the file is permanently lost or the file service goes away, the file can be reloaded or copied to a new service. The only thing that needs to change is the link to the file on the post. Since the file copied to the file service is a point-in-time copy of the original file that was created specifically for this reason, nothing else needs to change.
just me wrote:What about attachments?
I think attachments are limited to 250K. This is plenty of space for most scripts but not near enough space for project files that may include scripts, documentation, image files, etc.
Them be my thoughts.
[quote="nnnik"]You know I don't want to say that the same thing is going to happen with this new forum but you know everything I stored in Copy/Dropbox is still there, my autohotkey.net files are all lost.[/quote]
It took a while, but I think we learned a few thing after the AutoHotkey.net catastrophe.
First of all, nothing, I repeat, [b]nothing[/b] is permanent. Whether it be Google.com, Dropbox.com, or ImOnlyAroundUntilChristmas.com, nothing lasts forever. For an active site like AutoHotkey.com or AHKScript.com, members are the most fleeting commodity of all. Losing the data on AutoHotkey.net was tough but finding out that some of the data was lost forever because some of the authors were long gone was even more of a blow.
Dropbox appears to be a great solution (I'm using it for now) but it is just one of hundreds, maybe thousands, of companies offering the exact same thing. It seems improbable right now but Dropbox will fall off the face of the earth, eventually. With the large number of competitors out there, it may be sooner rather than later. Another possibility would be for Dropbox to convert to a pay-only model or reduce the free accounts to an unusable small size.
Next, people make mistakes and stuff happens. After the AutoHotkey.net data loss, we discovered that there was no viable backup. Whether it was because of irresponsibility or other reasons (Ex: corrupt backup), we'll probably never know. An AHKScript.net solution runs the risk of the same problem. Periodic backups [i]should[/i] reduce the risk but all solutions depend on people and people make mistakes blah blah blah.
I wasn't doing it a first but I now use a two-tier method for publishing stuff on the forum. I move [u]a copy[/u] of whatever file I'm posting to a separate and unique folder within a "AutoHotkey Forum" folder on my hard drive. I then copy that file to whatever file service I'm using at the time -- AutoHotkey.net in the past, Dropbox.com for now, and AHKScript.net or ???? in the future. I then create a post with a link to the file. If the file is permanently lost or the file service goes away, the file can be reloaded or copied to a new service. The only thing that needs to change is the link to the file on the post. Since the file copied to the file service is a point-in-time copy of the original file that was created specifically for this reason, nothing else needs to change.
[quote="just me"]What about attachments?[/quote]
I think attachments are limited to 250K. This is plenty of space for most scripts but not near enough space for project files that may include scripts, documentation, image files, etc.
Them be my thoughts.