Aminet replacement

[Minuous]

>Speak for yourself buddy. I'm a coder, and theres always at least some method of distributing my software. aminet isnt the only option.

So where are the alternative sites then?

>To make things even more interesting, it could even be done on a 1year subscription,limited access to non members for free, amiga.org full access £2, with aminet £3.

Selling PD? No, I don't think so. The authors of the software have not written it to be sold for profit, it is expressly against the licences of the vast majority of Aminet software and therefore what you are proposing is illegal and immoral.

[AmiKit]

Minuous wrote:
they don't give a damn about the community. More than 3 weeks downtime of a site without explanation is, I'm sure you will agree, completely unacceptable in this day and age.

cgutjahr wrote:
Wow, thanks a lot for that one. Crap like that makes my day, really - or maybe not.

I don't remember recieving a mail from you, Mr. Jacobs (while you did contact us about various other issues in the past, so you're indeed familiar with the e-mail medium, apparently). Next time, just drop us a mail first and use the reply to decide if it's time to insult us in public. Check your dictionary for "politeness" if you're not familiar with the concept.

well said, cgutjahr!

[jahc]

@thread

How goes the work on restoring aminet to its full glory? I just uploaded a file. That much seems to be working at least.

[Minuous]

>I don't remember recieving a mail from you

As a matter of fact I emailed twice in the last month, neither has been actioned or replied.

[Hyperspeed]

Everyone?

Stop arguing?

KTHX?

:-) ?

[mick_aka]

This is the stupidest thread I've ever read, so Aminet was down for a while, it's been down before, boofrickidyhoo!
Is the concept of patience totally dead?

For the most part everyone responsible for running Aminet and adding to it's library deseve a medal, without it my Amigas would have been thrown away years ago.

These blokes do have lives outside of Aminet, Jobs, Education, Wives, Children?! ffs give them a break, if you want to start up a new software repository then great stuff! go do it, but dont justify doing it by slagging off aminet.

What right do you have to critisize a service maintained and supplied at zero cost to you?

NONE.

[Retromania]

I'm with mick_aka on this one.  

And if there is anything we can do to help Aminet continue (long may they wish to do so!!!) then I am up for that too.  How about a donations link on Aminet like on this site?  (Or do they have this already and I have been totally oblivious to it?).  It might help replace that PPC card for a start!

[cgutjahr]

@all:

Thanks for the kind words, everybody.

Nicomen is currently busy setting up a new main server. No ETA yet, but it should be available soonish. As jahc pointed out, we're already accepting uploads (via FTP) again, but it might take a while until we can moderate them.

As for my PPC: It's not really dead, fortunately. I guess I just forgot to sacrifice a virgin last year, that's why it needs to have some cables resoldered and the fan replaced.

[Minuous]

>As jahc pointed out, we're already accepting uploads (via FTP) again, but it might take a while until we can moderate them.

Hm, doesn't seem to be, I can see WookieChat in there, but no other uploads, and I get "permission denied" on the uploads. Web upload is still down too (empty "Type" field).

But at least it seems it will be back to normal soon, so on that basis I can't see a need for an alternative PD repository.

[mick_aka]

Retromania wrote:
I'm with mick_aka on this one.

Crikey! first time for everything!  :-D