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I'd love to ask for people uploading prods to submit a direct download URL, instead of either webpages or the scene.org mirror page: pouet already has (and has had it for a long time) a "mirror" link to search on scene.org (or others).

Now you can fill up this thread with funny images or BASS-like posts.

Thank you, drive through.

I always prefer a link to the mirror page so that I can choose the download location instead of hitting a direct link to a overcrowded ftp. Don't listen to this man! :)

melwyn: so click on the "mirror" link right under the "download" one :)

as usual, i agree with jcl!

alternatively, a cool scene.org-auto-select-mirror-cookie-feature (*without* sourceforge-style delay) would be even better. you had a new php whore now, right?

Jcl has been here:

and not to be forgotten:

i agree with melwyn.

I agree with nosfe.

I'm with melwyn here. I'd like to know if I'm going to download a 10 MB or a 600 MB prod. Pouet doesn't show sizes, scene.org does.

madenmann has a point about knowing the size of a download before clicking it... i personally don't mind whether it's a direct download or a link to scene.org, but i'd rather that there was consistency, ie. everyone sticks to either one or the other.

i agree with you all to a certain degree! HUGS TO YOU ALL!!
(i agree the most with nosfe, though)

Auto download is great, where you could "rank" your mirrors on scene.org, if you are logged in it could go via sceneid, if not it could do with a cookie..

However, a direct link (not Mirrors...) for scene.org direct-page would be much appreciated, since some of us occasionnaly steals broadband from random routers who filters ftp and such..

i guess this all screams for a multiple download thing since the current "main link, source, video, disk2" thing is kinda sorry looking.

What melwyn says sounds reasonable to me.

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absolutely seconding with jcl.

i agree with nosfe, melwyn and jcl but disagree with madenmann, dipswitch and kusma. i also agree with lobsters everywhere and fish whose name starts with b.

i choose not to give a fuck eitherway. :)

i disagree with jeenio.

i disagree with trace and myself. but i agree with ps.

i agree with you and i, but not with the robot.

seriously speaking, we could look at auto-forward / download from preferred mirror feature. let's see...

now that we're doing suggestions anyway, how about a link from file.php to dir.php? i know there's the go back button, but f.ex. pouet links don't come from dir.php in the first place, so it just history.back()s straight to pouet.

agree me beautiful

if you make the demos hard to get it makes it way more satisfying when the download actually starts! add a questionaire with trivia about the demoscene!

what Jota-SI-EL says seems pretty reasonable, as well the efficiency ratio of scene.org organizers to mirrorize the stuff has an important role here. no?