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gggmork said:
speedyshare trumps that in terms of laziness though because you can simply upload an lmp without: 1) zipping it 2) including a text file
Yet it sucks because the file's time stamp refers to when it was downloaded instead of when it was recorded, and the demo is gone from the thread after some time. Zipping takes but a simple right-click with any decent ZIP app, in any case.
That's one thing I dislike about the Challenge TV Quake and Quakeworld section. Newer Quakeworld clients use a compression method which makes it "supposedly unnecessary" to ZIP demos. Then, you download a match someone uploaded, possibly anonymously and a good time after it was played, and often it's extremely hard to tell when the match was played because the original date is nowhere to be found. Eight years ago, five years ago? Who knows!
Besides, when you use the attach function here, you add the demo directly when you post, as opposed to also having to open the speedyshare site and then copy-paste the URL here.
With attachments, in addition to immediately downloading through a direct click, which will otherwise but open the file host page, you can right-click on the attachment and use save as or the equivalent. On the other hand, these file hosting sites (speedyshare included) often have URLs that can confuse the browser into thinking they are direct file links, because they end with the extension of the file to be downloaded, and can make you download their page instead of the file.
It just happened to me with your HR2 demo. Doom2 wasn't playing it and I thought, "hey, is this a Boom demo or something?" It turns out it was an HTML file Doom2 was trying to play :p
Considering all the above, these sites aren't even an advantage in respect to being lazy.
PS: By the way, while a text file is certainly encouraged and recommended, your attachments here won't get rejected, deleted or anything like that if they don't have a text file. If you really don't want to include a text file, and are going to include all the relevant information in a long file name, just zip and attach.
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