Download.com

[Vermeulen]

I actually tried uploading Nexuiz 2.0 when it was released, I don't know why it never showed up. With Nexuiz 1.5 it took a few weeks.

I submited another Nexuiz 2.0 and I'll try to contact part of the download.com staff to see if anyone can review it. Hopefully it shows up in the next week at least.

With Alien Arena, they always delay their releases until it gets up on download.com, then they use it as their primary mirror. I think we should probably do that for later releases

[KadaverJack]

With Alien Arena, they always delay their releases until it gets up on download.com, then they use it as their primary mirror. I think we should probably do that for later releases

Aren't our releases already delayed enough?

[Urmel]

I think we should probably do that for later releases

[Vermeulen]

well its not a bad idea just because we might attract some more newbie gamers visiting download.com impressed with our download numbers. Right now most of our downloads are at sourceforge, usually around 100k, but that doesn't attract a lot of people there

[divVerent]

But do we really want to delay the release by multiple weeks for that?

What about: Sending it to download.com, then release in the forum only first and tell the Linux distribution packagers to start packaging from the FORUM version, which will be identical to the download.com version that hopefully appears days later, but probably will appear months later?

Other idea: sending it to download.com and releasing it on sourceforge at most a week later, no matter if download.com did it or not?

I guess the former one would yield more hits at download.com. The forum release could be done on some temporary webspace and would become unavailable when the version on download.com is there.

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An excellent alternative to Download.com is Softpedia.com
Those folks have excellent customer service and they are very diligent about updating their software in my experience.