OldVersion.com Admin
02-23-2008, 01:30 PM
Hey guys,
Long time, no major updates. Don't fret, I am not dead yet! In the next few weeks, there will be some major changes to OldVersion.com. They will be the good kind of changes where your functionality will be improved and not hindered. Before these plans are put in motions, I want to get some feedback from everyone on what we want to see changed here on our site. Here are features that I currently feel will help this site grow quickly, as well as provide large amount of growth in a short period of time. Please do me a huge favor and read them carefully and tell me what you think about them!
- Have individual information for each individual file. It's extremely overbearing to have 100 different old versions to choose from with no real direction on where to go, even if you are an expert user. So we want to make available hardware information, what operating system the version is intended for, date released, a changelook. Perhaps screenshots, but only if it won't clutter things up too much. We want this to remain a very simple site where you can go and find the file you want, get the old version, and get back to whatever you were doing quickly.
Implementing these changes will require everyone's help.
There's currently thousands of files on this site - I can't practically update all this information myself without taking another twenty years to do it, unless I somehow find super-ninja strength (if you know where it is, email me). So we are developing a user-registration system where people will be able to register for the site if they wish and update the information easily. Registration WILL NOT be necessary for downloading files, simply contributing information to ensure that malicious files don't find their way here. Then, administrators simply approve the information for quality control. In the same sense, files will be easy to submit as well. What do you guys think of these ideas? Will you help us fill in the blanks for the large amounts of files? This needn't be a chore - for files you have information for, fill it in. We'll keep track of all this and perhaps award some small prizes for people who contribute the largest amount of information. Who knows, we'll have some fun with it.
We'll also have voting enabled for people to rank individual files so that may give people an idea of what people like to download.
We are completely open to your ideas and critisicms, so contribute if you have a free moment and lets continue growing this site.
Long time, no major updates. Don't fret, I am not dead yet! In the next few weeks, there will be some major changes to OldVersion.com. They will be the good kind of changes where your functionality will be improved and not hindered. Before these plans are put in motions, I want to get some feedback from everyone on what we want to see changed here on our site. Here are features that I currently feel will help this site grow quickly, as well as provide large amount of growth in a short period of time. Please do me a huge favor and read them carefully and tell me what you think about them!
- Have individual information for each individual file. It's extremely overbearing to have 100 different old versions to choose from with no real direction on where to go, even if you are an expert user. So we want to make available hardware information, what operating system the version is intended for, date released, a changelook. Perhaps screenshots, but only if it won't clutter things up too much. We want this to remain a very simple site where you can go and find the file you want, get the old version, and get back to whatever you were doing quickly.
Implementing these changes will require everyone's help.
There's currently thousands of files on this site - I can't practically update all this information myself without taking another twenty years to do it, unless I somehow find super-ninja strength (if you know where it is, email me). So we are developing a user-registration system where people will be able to register for the site if they wish and update the information easily. Registration WILL NOT be necessary for downloading files, simply contributing information to ensure that malicious files don't find their way here. Then, administrators simply approve the information for quality control. In the same sense, files will be easy to submit as well. What do you guys think of these ideas? Will you help us fill in the blanks for the large amounts of files? This needn't be a chore - for files you have information for, fill it in. We'll keep track of all this and perhaps award some small prizes for people who contribute the largest amount of information. Who knows, we'll have some fun with it.
We'll also have voting enabled for people to rank individual files so that may give people an idea of what people like to download.
We are completely open to your ideas and critisicms, so contribute if you have a free moment and lets continue growing this site.