Please add your set's website to Linkage

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 02 Jun 2007 10:01

I notice still many many websites about graphics sets aren't added to Linkage, and I wonder why. Is Linkage not known enough (and thus not advertised enough)?. Or do some website creators not want to add their website to Linkage? In that case I'd like to know why.

When looking for TTRS and Av8, I noticed both Zimmlocks as PikkaBirds websites are not added to Linkage, but I bet there are many more.

Please add your set's website (or any other TT-related website) to Linkage! The Transport Tycoon Link Collector.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: URL: http://linkage.tt-forums.net/

Ben_K · Post by **Ben_K** » 02 Jun 2007 10:19

Admittedsly, I hadnt added my 1 link

Mainly as I thought that is what GRFcrawler was for?!
Still, I shall go there now and add it...

michael blunck · Post by **michael blunck** » 02 Jun 2007 11:04

Could you please change the link to my page from "www.patagonia.de.vu" to "www.ttdpatch.de", please?

regards
Michael

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 02 Jun 2007 11:09

Ben_K wrote:Admittedsly, I hadnt added my 1 link Mainly as I thought that is what GRFcrawler was for?!

GRFCrawler collects direct links to GRFs, IIRC. Linkage links to website which are (or are not) containing links to GRFs somewhere.

michael blunck wrote:Could you please change the link to my page from "www.patagonia.de.vu" to "www.ttdpatch.de", please?

Yeah, tried to do that a few hours ago and discovered I forgot the admin pass

I've asked SpComb to give me the admin pass, and I'll change the link once I got the pass (unless I forget, which might happen too

)

wallyweb · Post by **wallyweb** » 02 Jun 2007 15:14

Who cleans up the dead links like the one for Dinges' site?

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 02 Jun 2007 16:30

ATM, nobody, but perhaps it'd be nice to have a feature for that. I'll await SpComb's point of view about that (assuming he'll read this topic).

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 02 Jun 2007 17:45

A reason GRF Crawler has actually 3 links, one points to the download, one to the authors homepage, one to discussions...

-edit-
But surely an link portal is usefully as well

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 02 Jun 2007 21:04

Maybe it's good to marry the two sites?

m3henry · Post by **m3henry** » 02 Jun 2007 21:28

so which one would be the old fart and which the one in white?

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 02 Jun 2007 21:31

I don't know but GRFCrawler is quite extensive and I think a link-site would be an easy addition.

SpComb · Post by **SpComb** » 02 Jun 2007 22:32

Purno wrote:
michael blunck wrote:Could you please change the link to my page from "www.patagonia.de.vu" to "www.ttdpatch.de", please?
Yeah, tried to do that a few hours ago and discovered I forgot the admin pass I've asked SpComb to give me the admin pass, and I'll change the link once I got the pass (unless I forget, which might happen too )

wallyweb wrote:Who cleans up the dead links like the one for Dinges' site?

The probable solution to issues like that is automated checking of links for 4xx errors and 3xx redirections, disabling/updating links as appropriate. Linkage already fetches all submitted urls and has plenty of code to handle the responses, so it wouldn't even be very much work. I'm reluctant to implement user logins for a link portal, and one-ttforums-post-per-broken-link is hardly a good solution either.

Hyronymus wrote:Maybe it's good to marry the two sites?

I do believe that GRFCrawler is more suited than linkage for what's in the Graphics Sets category, but not for the others. Where on GRFCrawler would you put, for instance, the link to the #tycoon logs?

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 03 Jun 2007 07:33

SpComb wrote:
Hyronymus wrote:Maybe it's good to marry the two sites?
I do believe that GRFCrawler is more suited than linkage for what's in the Graphics Sets category, but not for the others. Where on GRFCrawler would you put, for instance, the link to the #tycoon logs?

That doesn't mean you shouldn't add a link to your GRF-related website to Linkage. It's only less than 5 minutes of work and only requires updating after an URL-change.

SpComb, did you get my PM?

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