BAM Development (see page 25)

[super crazy wacko]

   do you guys have a date set for when this is going to be done? 

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[Hawt]

why quote someone and give no input? it's handicapped and you aren't changing anything besides upping your post count.

if you want me to tell my reasons ok bitch:

• people would possibly beg the creator
• it might be just for private sharing
• they call it private for a reason: so if people see it they may be like: oh ok lemme pm tbd or some1

That doesn't really work when everyone already knows about those crappy private add-ons that only their selective group can have. Allowing people to see the page would do nothing more than hosting a server with that add-on activated.

but what if they don't activate it but make it a private addon?
the only addon i made private forever is the loving ion cannon when i was dumb

i release everything else because i want feedback and so

dont

[Crispy_]

So you suggest that BAM implements two private add-on systems that work exactly the same way except that one showcases your add-on to the public and the other one doesn't? Even in a perfect world that would be absurd, and this world isn't perfect so nobody would use the private add-on system and everyone would use the beta add-on system.

fixed

The reason why I don't support private add-ons is because situations like this occur all the time:
'hey thats a cool addon when will you release'
'never its private lol look how cool i am with it XDXDXDXD'
'forget you'

How about we have no private add-on system?

[Lugnut]

what if we don't have a private add-on system because it's so loving controversial, but instead have a beta add-on system
beta add-ons
+ have controlled downloads
+ are okay for us to review - they're public, just not public yet
+ the more feedback a dev working in beta gets, the better
private add-ons:
+ bitching
+ complaining

sounds win win to me
yeah i blew a bunch of logical fallacies right there, someone prove me wrong...

[Crispy_]

what if we don't have a private add-on system because it's so loving controversial, but instead have a beta add-on system
beta add-ons
+ have controlled downloads
+ are okay for us to review - they're public, just not public yet
+ the more feedback a dev working in beta gets, the better
private add-ons:
+ bitching
+ complaining

sounds win win to me
yeah i blew a bunch of logical fallacies right there, someone prove me wrong...

this

[Greek2me]

+ are okay for us to review - they're public, just not public yet

Why?

First of all, it would be a waste of your time. Do critics judge art when it's only half-painted?

Secondly, privacy is sometimes nice when working on things to prevent people from going "ooohhh can I have it??". This argument:

The reason why I don't support private add-ons is because situations like this occur all the time:
'hey thats a cool addon when will you release'
'never its private lol look how cool i am with it XDXDXDXD'
'forget you'

is terrible. Just because you can't get something right away means that you shouldn't include a useful feature? No. Do you really think that having a lack of proper features on some add-on hosting service is going to stop people from doing that?

[Crispy_]

This argument:is terrible. Just because you can't get something right away means that you shouldn't include a useful feature? No. Do you really think that having a lack of proper features on some add-on hosting service is going to stop people from doing that?

No. I don't want a hosting service to ENCURAGE this.

Secondly, privacy is sometimes nice when working on things to prevent people from going "ooohhh can I have it??".

I approve of keeping beta/unfinished stuff private.

[Port]

Crispy_, what are you even trying to accomplish? Private add-ons may or may not be supported, but they will be private.

[chrisbot6]

what if we don't have a private add-on system because it's so loving controversial, but instead have a beta add-on system
beta add-ons
+ have controlled downloads
+ are okay for us to review - they're public, just not public yet
+ the more feedback a dev working in beta gets, the better
private add-ons:
+ bitching
+ complaining

sounds win win to me
yeah i blew a bunch of logical fallacies right there, someone prove me wrong...

I like this. Do it this way, it'll be a lot better for everyone.

[Crispy_]

Crispy_, what are you even trying to accomplish? Private add-ons may or may not be supported, but they will be private.

I'm trying to explain how your mod should not support private add-ons.

[Ipquarx]

Crispy, I'm pretty sure you're the only one here that doesn't want a proper private addons system. If it was really that serious a problem then it would've crashed and burned when it was put into rtb.

[Crispy_]

Crispy, I'm pretty sure you're the only one here that doesn't want a proper private addons system.

Are you really that full of yourself?

If it was really that serious a problem then it would've crashed and burned when it was put into rtb.

It wasn't that much of a problem because there were so few private RTB add-ons. Maybe 60? I don't remember the exact number.

[jes00]

It wasn't that much of a problem because there were so few private RTB add-ons. Maybe 60? I don't remember the exact number.

RTB had 3,318 add-ons, 559 of which were private.

[Evar678]

Are you really that full of yourself?

I don't think you know what the term 'full of yourself' means..

RTB had 3,318 add-ons, 559 of which were private.

I was just about to bring this up, I forgot the actual number though.

[Ipquarx]

So in other words: one in every six addons hosted on rtb was private.

As I said, if there was an issue that would be significantly less.