BrawlVault: Feedback and Updates

[Xerom]

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[Lillith]

...Did you upload it recently? If so it would've been when the move happened.

[Xerom]

Yeah I just stumbled upon that information that the site transfer deleted any recent uploads. Apologies.

[Nezha B. Rose]

Congrats for the new servers!

[windhunter7]

Agreed! :) Haven't had even a single 503 yet, and in BV, when clicking the exclamation points to view the reports, no lag on that, either. These new servers are awesome! :D

[Bad Box Art Mega Man]

feels good to surf this site with my phone with no problems, again

[HaloFanODST]

No problems at all, yet. Not a single annoying 503 error.
Excellent servers.

[secretchaos1]

I can't seem to access the vault anymore. I was getting Error 500 a lot and now the vault page loads but I get:
"Database Error
Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator. "
Where the vault itself should load up. It looks sort of like an error page within the page, I'll post a screenshot link here if that's alright: http://screenshot.sh/ouUVfBoj0vL6D

Edit: Seems to be working again now. I'll let you guys know if it persists.

[masamune]

The search function doesn't work correctly.
I get the "database error" or "no results found" screens when I try to look something up.

[nanobuds]

@All admins

I don't want this report to be thrown aside without discussion from the rest of the forums.

Mastaklo, the creator of the top Shadow mod, is making money off download links.
http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Number=2369

He is using adfly. However, the link doesn't even lead to the download, it leads to another modding site for a DBZ game.

The download for the mod is in the description of the Vault entry, not in the download button. He is abusing the Vault system and making money off of something illegal.

I highly recommend the mod is overall removed until he fixes the link himself. It doesn't matter that the mod is the #1 one on the Vault. With the legal tensions regarding Project M, it should be removed for the safety of the forums.

[windhunter7]

I agree with this.

[Miacis]

Judging by the last edit date, it's been like that for at least the past 6 months. We haven't had any lawyers knocking on our door for that lone adfly link yet.

It's an invalid link and easy to fix. Outright deleting it sounds a bit extreme to me, doesn't it?

[nanobuds]

Judging by the last edit date, it's been like that for at least the past 6 months. We haven't had any lawyers knocking on our door for that lone adfly link yet.

It's an invalid link and easy to fix. Outright deleting it sounds a bit extreme to me, doesn't it?

Remove it until he fixes it. I'm sure hes not going to do it himself anytime soon. You can do that, right?

Also, the fact that hes piggybacking off the #1 mod spot to make money is pretty scummy. Its old and outdated, and he doesn't even update it anymore. He is just using the rank to make money.

[shikamaru12]

I agree with Nano. It may be a small mod, but it is still using assets from something that isn't theirs and making money off of it, all the while having a false download link that just promotes something else of theirs.

[Miacis]

Deleting the hack and then restoring it? We can do that yeah, but it's kinda clumsy.

I personally don't like the idea of hiding perfectly usable hacks (old or not) away from the community, so I'd be more inclined to just edit the proper DL link in and removing his BV privileges until he needs them. (So most likely never.)
Turns out it's the third time since Sep 14 that he's been changing the link to third-party websites. If we "forced" him to fix it, it'd probably be only for a month or two before he'd put the ads back on. So that's not really a fruitful option.

Regardless, I'm leaving it up to the BV Staff to come up with a decision.

it is still using assets from something that isn't theirs

... Pardon?