Re: Warning from the Rainmeter Team
Posted: May 23rd, 2011, 6:16 pm
Ok, I changed the link on that page to point to the Group instead of the main Rainmeter area. I'm not sure how much good it will do, as I suspect most folks don't end up on dA through that link, and as I said, I am not that happy about trying to drive folks away from the main area anyway (in spite of the virus situation) but it is done. For you, anything. You have certainly earned my just shutting up and doing what you suggest...
Having said that, I don't know that even if we had our own repository somewhere, that we could easily wean folks off of deviantART at this point. It would take a very concentrated effort to steer folks to a better / different repository, and I'm sorry, but the dA group is not that. You can't even directly upload to it really... Skin authors have to go to the main area in any case to post a submission, and folks just know that you look there for the latest and greatest. Many, many of them, if not most, don't know or care about any "community", here or in the group, and just want the latest skins. They are never going to see any warnings or attempts to steer them somewhere else.
I'm still hopeful that this virus situation is going to die down to a dull ache at some point, even if it never truly goes away completely.
Having said that, I don't know that even if we had our own repository somewhere, that we could easily wean folks off of deviantART at this point. It would take a very concentrated effort to steer folks to a better / different repository, and I'm sorry, but the dA group is not that. You can't even directly upload to it really... Skin authors have to go to the main area in any case to post a submission, and folks just know that you look there for the latest and greatest. Many, many of them, if not most, don't know or care about any "community", here or in the group, and just want the latest skins. They are never going to see any warnings or attempts to steer them somewhere else.
I'm still hopeful that this virus situation is going to die down to a dull ache at some point, even if it never truly goes away completely.