Updated torrent of hpcalc.org for 2020

[Eric Rechlin]

(01-03-2020 08:12 AM)eried Wrote:  Have you ever thought about migrating it? I don't know how much effort it requires now but, I remember thinking back then that it seemed like a lot of manual work. Almost as a joke, and trying to be as lazy as possible, I made a repo for some simple arduboy games (https://arduboy.ried.cl/) based on github (so, actually to submit, people just fork it and do pull requests to master https://github.com/eried/ArduboyCollection, and nobody pays hosting or anything).

I'm not sure what you mean by migrating it, but if you mean moving it to github, no, I don't want to rehost it. I have a pretty good setup now. For close to 20 years, I've been running it with a PHP+MySQL back end, so updating programs is fairly easy.

Here is an example screenshot of the interface I setup for updating files. Some fields are auto-generated.



If I allowed people to directly add things, even with moderation it would be hopeless. When users submit something, it just sends me a specially-formatted email since I often have to redo a lot of it anyway. For example, I request that all contributions be in a Zip file but lots of people insist on sending me RARs so I have to recompress. I request GIF or PNG for the screenshot, but lots of people insist on sending me JPEGs which I can't use. And oftentimes the descriptions are poorly written or left out entirely, or there is no documentation included with the program as I request.