Unless I'm doing something wrong, I have not been successful in search attempts using known search formats such as *.EA or _EA in a search. Sometimes searching using a single word creates an error such as Mustang or such. That's has been a real short-coming for me … search engine! So yes, ya got to go look'in!
Swap page uploads and moderation
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Boof69
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I want to be clear I don't think members should not be able to upload what they want, just a limit per 24 hours. Like 2-3 ought to do it. If someone has the odd day where they make more than 3 files they could just post those extras on the next day. After all they don't do it all the time. Usually directly following a new EA release. Something like that would help mitigate the problem. It would be nice to stay on the landing page for at least a full day for everyone to easily find. Especially after 30-60 hours of work on a new creation.
No spankings here. Everyone is more than welcome to have their own opinion on a community issue.
OK … there seems to be a couple of issues. The use of the "EA" designation, and an overcrowded swap page listing.
Am I remembering correctly, that there was a time when airports, new aircraft and such had separate avenues for searching. If that's the case, why are not CS's, AV's and EA's on separate tabs now. Would alleviate some of the problems being encountered. But that is a choice for Byran, correct.
Boils down to having a good search engine and separated data.
Maybe the long standing, creative designers could petition RF/Knife Edge for changes in the layout. Too bad your concerns were not covered in this last update.
By the way, if someone can do an aircraft design in 30 to 60 hours, I commend all of you. Especially the detail and quality I see being exhibited. I could spend that much time on one of my variations.
Am I remembering correctly, that there was a time when airports, new aircraft and such had separate avenues for searching. If that's the case, why are not CS's, AV's and EA's on separate tabs now. Would alleviate some of the problems being encountered. But that is a choice for Byran, correct.
Boils down to having a good search engine and separated data.
Maybe the long standing, creative designers could petition RF/Knife Edge for changes in the layout. Too bad your concerns were not covered in this last update.
By the way, if someone can do an aircraft design in 30 to 60 hours, I commend all of you. Especially the detail and quality I see being exhibited. I could spend that much time on one of my variations.
Boof69
Well-known member
Mostly this is all just jawing and wishing. We can't expect any changes like that. We are too small a group and are problems are "small". We once banded together and stopped making new models to get a bad file rating system fixed. We had people who would rate down models without being signed in and we wanted the swaps to require a sign in to deter them. They ended up restricted the rating system so much that it's a non-feature. I believe it takes 15 comments before any comments will show or something like that. I won't be petitioning for anything like that again. They might just take away the swaps all together who knows. That's why I know this won't be solved by any other means than asking for help with wrongfully uploaded EAs. As for the junk AV's and CS files that just won't be something worth the time to fix. It's nice getting it of one's chest though.
Boof69 Said:
"They might just take away the swaps all together who knows. That's why I know this won't be solved by any other means than asking for help with wrongfully uploaded EAs."
That's sad to me.
Thanks for the info on past experiences. Now I know not to get too excited one way or another, and also know why others may not have joined the discussion.
Guess we can try the discussion feature as you mentioned.
"They might just take away the swaps all together who knows. That's why I know this won't be solved by any other means than asking for help with wrongfully uploaded EAs."
That's sad to me.
Thanks for the info on past experiences. Now I know not to get too excited one way or another, and also know why others may not have joined the discussion.
Guess we can try the discussion feature as you mentioned.
technoid
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Maybe not perfectly related to the subject but I was just looking at the Latest Uploads section on the main forum page and it might be easy for KE to add Tabs to that area for Aircraft, Variant, Color Scheme, and Field. At least that would help with the upload confusion.
abaser
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One guy uploaded 20 in less than an hour this morning.
technoid
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Yeah I've been watching the swap page uploads a lot recently and it's hard to be interested in uploading a plane just to have it pushed off the list in no time at all. I guess I'm just too slow at modeling.
Time to put this idea in motion !!!!
Isn't that kind of what this is, in the red outline?
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technoid
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Yes I know about that one and use it too but since I normally open the main forum page the latest uploads section in it is what I usually see and anything on that list gets pushed down quickly. But yeah if a person knows where to look you can find the most recent uploads for what you're looking for okay.
Well , Well , Well … How did I overlook that. I only hit swap pages and saw the listing, then went to what's new - and wow, everything shows up.
You have to navigate several layers of options under a particular RF version before getting to Aircraft (EA), but it's there.
Boof69
Well-known member
Your right there is a way but that list is like the front page of a news paper and what you pointed out is an index. Now make that new EA index the main page and done.
I only brought it up because it took me a couple days to even realize that was there after the new forum layout. I had always had the swap pages alone set as a fav in my browser and then another for the forums. Even when I went into the swaps I ignored the categories section on the left and was overwhelmed by the main list.
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Woodzy
Active member
This is to avoid spamming the swaps!