Everyone gets busy from time to time 
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I started a mods site as well which was also going to at some point also incorporate guides and building templates all in one site. But seems others beat me to it so itās too late for me to finish fine 
Hey Tom, Iām only one man 
I can only do so much (and Iām currently swamped as is). Iād love any help youād want to give if you wanted to be a part of it! Of course if you donāt want to thatās totally cool, I just never like to have anyone feel left out If youāre interested, let me know and we can talk more privately (not in this open chat 
). Iād be very interested in having someone help me grow the site further/help moderate it/help coordinate guides and templates and such!
Let me know if youāre interested (or even if youāre just interested in contributing content, rather than playing an active role)!
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Also thanks to everyone so far for your mod contributions!
Shoutout to:
@8BitCrab ā
@Spiro ā
Thanks for your awesome submissions!!
If yāall havenāt checked out their mods yet, you absolutely need to, theyāre awesome 
Iām really glad to see people using the site and I want to emphasize Iām trying as hard as I can to keep improving it (I know itās still a bit rough around the edges).
If you have a mod and havenāt submitted it yet, please feel free to do so! 
Also if you have any feedback (constructive criticism, hateful remarks, that sort of thing 
) please let me know!
I 
LOVE to hear what you like about the site, what you donāt like, and what youād want to see changed/added.
Thanks for the continued support everyone!!
-Tyler
hehā¦ i used it once, but couldnāt figure out how to update/edit a mod. so i guess i should ask, is there currently a way to edit a mod on your site?
@8BitCrab if youāre logged in and youāre the mod author, there should be an option to āEdit this Modā or something like that, is there not?
hmmā¦ well there is, clicking it brings me to the WordPress page editorā¦ not what i expected, and iām not sure how to upload a new version of the .smod to the site from thew edit page. 
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oh dear, youāre absolutely rightā¦ that seems like a fatal error on my part 
Iām really sorry about that, Iām working on a fix as we speak.
If you want you could email me the .smod file and I could update it manually for you in the meantime? Or I should have a quick fix (if not a full fix) done in less than a day.
Really sorry again for the inconvenience!!
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iāll wait for the fix
no need to apologize, sorry for not having reported it earlier when i first ran into the problem!
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absolutely no worries, thanks for bringing it up now
sounds good Iāll post it here as soon as Iāve finished it!
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So (in typical developer fashion), Iāve broken everything else in an attempt to fix this problem
So, rest assured, Iām still working on it (and now Iāve fixed it back to where it was before I āfixedā it 
)
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@8BitCrab So yes, I really am still working on this
It turns out I had to completely discard and redevelop the mod submission/storage/editing process, so thatās why itās taking so long. Again, Iām REALLY sorry for the continued delay but Iām making good progress and should have it done by the end of the week.
Thanks for your patience everyone!!
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Why donāt you and praise join forces?
@Wharp I had suggested that here:
http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/praise-stonehearth-mod-manager/16157/95
But @Praise mentioned that he (understandably) didnāt have the time or resources to take on a merger at the moment.
That being said, Iām always open to the idea, and Iām currently working on a little secret project (not really secret, I just havenāt told anybody ) that is similar to Praise. Itās a downloadable mod-manager that links in directly with stonehearthmods.co (not at ALL trying to compete with or be ābetterā than Praise in any way, it just seems like something that users find useful so I figured Iād whip one up for my site as well).
If anyone thinks thatās bad, āshadyā, or anything like that, please feel free to discuss it with me here - I donāt want to step on anyoneās toes or offend/anger anyone, I simply thought itād be a nice feature addition to my site as well
Thanks again for everyoneās patience, Iāll be keeping you all up to date as best I can
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Thatās too bad that a merger isnāt possible, but I have to say Iām more partial to your site design than Praiseās. I wonder why Praise canāt simply post his source online and allow both you two to work on the project together.
Btw, whatās language is your manager coded in? Iād love to help out
@Wharp Hey thanks for the offer Iād welcome any contributors!
The downloadable Mod Manager is written in C# (itās basically a C# windows form application), but the website is developed with wordpress so the typical HTML/CSS/PHP model
Omg! My favorite languages! Are you on github?
@Wharp I have an account but I havenāt posted this project up there yet (itās still very VERY new). I can throw it up there tonight and we could talk about you getting involved, do you have anything we could live-text-chat over like skype or anything?
Or any repo really! Iām not too familiar with web design, but I can work through it. C# is my most favorite.All thatās good really, I have skype but I prefer discord. Do you have that?
Alright everyoneā¦
Itās the moment youāve all been waiting forā¦
Dramatic music starts playing
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After taking WAY longer than I said I would
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After completely restructuring/rewriting the database 3 separate times
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After literally crashing my entire webserver because I accidentally threw it into an infinite loop because I missed a ā$ā symbol once in my code (Iām not being dramatic, that actually happened)
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After questioning every decision I ever made that led to me making websites (okay now Iām being dramaticā¦)
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After spending an average of 14-16 hours every day for the last week and a half trying to fix a problem that should have been pretty simple
I am finally. FINALLY ready to announce that my site is fully functional again, and it has a new and improved look, feel, and functionality!!
I have done the following:
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Reworked the entire system so itās much more efficient (which means you wonāt spend precious minutes waiting for pages to load and files to upload)
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Redeveloped (and redesigned) the Mod Submission page from scratch, giving you the ability to submit your mod descriptions with text that is fully HTML compatible! So now the form looks like THIS!!
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Redeveloped (and redesigned) the mod pages themselves so they now display content that is fully HTML compatible
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Finally implemented a proper āEdit Modā page so that mod authors can edit their modās information and files (including changing their featured image, their .smod file, and all of their extra images), and that page looks like THIS!!!
- Fixed/upgraded/cleaned up a bunch of random bits and pieces that nobody will really ever see or care about, but they matter to me because Iām a developer
For anyone interested, weāve got some pretty exciting new features and improvements in the works, this is our TODO list (and things for you to look out for in future updates):
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New and improved āProfileā pages
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Moar under-the-hood site optimizations! Yay!
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New and improved comment sections
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Further improvements on individual mod pages (displaying information more clearly, just making them better organized and better presented)
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For Mod Authors - Download counts! (donāt worry, weāve actually been logging each download on our server, so your download counts will be accurate, we just havenāt displayed them yet because that feature is still in testing)
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Modding tutorials/resources section
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Miscellaneous improvements in look/feel, usability, layout, etc.
Thank you SO SO SO much to all of you for being so patient while we worked this out!! It was a beast to tackle, but weāre finally here and weāre ready to handle whatever site-breaking thing that happens next
As always, we are completely open to suggestions, comments, hateful remarks, that sort of thing, so please feel free to let us know what you like, what you donāt like, or what youād like to see!
I did promise to notify some of you individually when the site was ready again, so here ya go
@8BitCrab, @Wharp, @AcheronTyrannus, @coasterspaul, @Spiro
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