The Issue with Attachments

Split from GFF:

+ 95% CH's don't venture outside CH or give a care for the rest of GFF.
+ Relieves huge burden on GFF admin and servers.
+ Easier to manage a smaller community. Streamlined admin and decision making process. Less consultation required for any changes.
+ In the long run more reliable downloads than FTP or file sharing sites/programs.
+ Allows room for growth and more freedom of options.
+ General enthusiasm and support?

- Requires a person or persons to pay for and manage a server.
- GFF staff and Blah (especially Blah) provides amazing (very amazing) technical support. Will be incredibly hard to find someone of equal calibre.
- A separate Concert Hall will take a good month to establish and possibly much longer to recreate the same setup and features as current GFF.


I'm all for a split, but the question arises... who PAYS?


Also, since money is an issue (it always is), why haven't we brought up a discussion on possible donation schemes?

Originally Posted by Bigblah

the issue just boils down to the fact that we could actually run out of disk space with all these attachments, and it's time you guys found an alternative solution.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Denicalis

God, stop being reactionary. No one here is asking for CH to fuck off and never come back. We just want them to learn to use the FTP servers.

I wasn't suggesting that that someone is asking CH to leave entirely. Neither was I trying to be reactionary.

Every idea needs to be weighed up - my putting it out on the table for discussion. If you think that the only solution is to get people to learn FTP servers, that doesn't contribute much to discussing why FTP is better or worse than other options.


EDIT: I'm not a technical wizard, but if one of the issues is disk space, could the CH attachments be stored on a separate harddrive owned by a CH member(s) but connected to the main GFF harddrive via WAN or some direct connection?

There's nowhere I can't reach.