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New server is ready but it is not my priority at the moment. If people want I could upload archives of the files to archive.org, just tell me what you need.
Note to self because I cannot spam our internal forums at the moment: https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest Had to register a new account due to the fact that I forgot my 2003 password and gamersrevolt mail account is long gone!
Thanks for your efforts Spirit, has been dark days without Quaddicted! These recent outages are sore reminders that while we all love Quake, Quaddicted won't be there forever and lots of users install exclusively through the injector, which goes down when the server does. Local functionality would help fix this for inept users like me. I have two ideas for fixes and relatively little Java experience.
Idea 1: When Quake Injector installs a pak or a bsp, it creates a text file using the data it pulls from the site to populate its info. This could be used to display maps that are already installed if a connection can't be established. Idea 2: When Quake Injector installs a pak or bsp, it creates a shortcut in a separate file in the Quake directory. This shortcut would direct to the engine the Injector is set to use and to the new pak's game name. Titles could be pulled from the site at the time of installation. This way if the Injector goes down, mods can be easily and individually opened. I love Quaddicted and tools like the Injector. I'm glad Quake maps are still being released and that a community still loves the game so much. I hope you don't mind the unsolicited advice, but I'd love if the game and its legacy of user made content could outlast Quaddicted itself for more than just the most adept users. Thanks Spirit for your time and for an awesome site! When Quaddicted is down it gets more praise then otherwise, I should do this more often, it makes me feel good!
The Injector is almost offline ready actually, I would need to check but megaman, Johnny Law and ericw did some great work. Downloads and screenshots can already be held locally I think. The only thing that actually fails it from working to play installed maps is that it downloads the xml database at the start. That can (is?) be cached, it would just need to read from that. Maybe someone can poke around a bit. Generally this just reminds me what a metric crap the current system is, especially with the special authors always requesting updates with the same filenames. Maybe completely reworking the whole system might be a good idea but I would at least need an active QI developer for that (and lots of happy free time!) Shortcuts would not be cross-platform. It's excellent it's nearly there already! The Injector seems like it has been steadily improving over time, most notably in my case when it suddenly understood how to implement WarpSpasm. I should have figured there was someone already on that from the experimental "check for installed maps" function.
That said, if you need someone to help with development, I'm professionally inexperienced but handy with Java, and I'd be more than happy to help if I can. I have no idea how the cross-platform issue slipped my mind. I've been tooling around with my Quake files for years and it never occurred to me that another system might handle it differently. I feel pretty dumb about that. Speaking of feeling dumb, how does one find that xml if it IS chached? Thanks again for the response! Can't wait until the site's running again! You can poke around in the code at https://github.com/hrehfeld/QuakeInjector/ if you like.
At first glance (in the doParseDatabase function of the main class) it looks like the downloaded database XML is stored at whatever path is returned by getConfig().LocalDatabaseFile.get(). So that'll be some value specified by the QuakeInjector config... by default it is "database.xml". Atomicgamer archival is nearing the end, downloads should be done in the next 24 hours. Then I will see the remaining uploads finish. Then I will reset the server. Then I will start working on getting Quaddicted back online.
Not sure if I want to keep the new server. 6TB of space sure is nice but it also costs almost twice as much... You know, I was half expecting to be totally lost at first glance. Looks like my classes were actually pretty useful. I'll look it over and get back to you if I can do anything useful. This shouldn't take too long. From what you guys described I was expecting something much less neat and orderly. This reads nice.
An archive.org mirror of quaddicted and quakewiki (and quakeexpo) would be an awesome historical contribution. Just my two cents.
Your work is appreciated, and worth saving. Thanks! 9452 Gigabytes of AtomicGamer files have been archived at https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22atomicgamer%22 Last upload running right now. Phew!
Is there an index on that archive? Right now it's sort of opaque.
I'm kicking myself for not having mirrored all of Quaddicted, when I was thinking of doing so a month ago. No index yet but I could share a file list tomorrow.
If you need any files or directories from quaddicted just say it! I just don't have the servers running, the files are easily accessed. It's good to hear that the whole Atomic Gamer Archival Process is going fine. I can't wait to get onto Quaddicted once it's back online. I still wonder why AtomicGamer decided to shut down.
The wayback machine does have Quaddicted archived! Those downloads work too, but the QI still needs a live version to work
Playing around with QI offline support here:
https://github.com/neogeographica/QuakeInjector/commit/c2fcb0765e86f74e4d2563b62ad6ec345099be3b How large are the archives that Quaddicted hosted, including idgames2?
I'm interested in setting up an offline mirror for Doomworld + idgames and Quaddicted + idgames2. It depends... It is all such a mess, otherwise I would set up some rsync.
81,1 GiB mirrors 36,1 GiB webarchive 20,7 GiB idgames 6,0 GiB engines 4,6 GiB idgames2 3,4 GiB filebase <- sp maps 2,9 GiB movies 1,5 GiB maps <- mp maps 1,5 GiB commercial 1,3 GiB music 1,0 GiB tools 938,1 MiB models 616,1 MiB mods 492,0 MiB temp 418,0 MiB wads 278,6 MiB misc 118,8 MiB advertisements 80,9 MiB demos Bottom line is that it is just not maintainable as well as idgames. People did not care for proper release etiquette in the years between the death of idgames2 and Quaddicted and even then too many did not care to check for filenames etc. Having it directory structure based is bad and made me do ugly compromises. Not to mention SP maps with MP and vice-versa. Cheers for getting the QI database back up. Here's a pull request for QI "offline mode" (sort of), along with some comments about what it does and does not do: https://github.com/hrehfeld/QuakeInjector/pull/99
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