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Started by CanadaGoose, March 11, 2010, 10:53:59 PM

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Nebberz

#15
why does it need to be updated constantly?  Just a collection of up till now would be fine :/

what crab was thinking about offering would be perfect...even if he updated once a year or...even never again.  Someone could pick up where he left off.

mongo

Because there are new bumps every week. Something like this might work: http://jdownloader.org/ There are many free managers on Google.
"For a moment, I lost my head. I was just a selfish, confused torso." - Bob Oblong

crab

The biggest problem right now is that running a BitTorrent tracker or seeding on our server is forbidden.  But all of our bumps are hosted on the server..  so who is going to seed the bumps?  I certainly cannot do so from home on my lame DSL connection, and I don't know anyone who has a lot of bandwidth and a copy of all the bumps so far.

So that leaves us with less desirable options.  We could host a series of ZIP/RAR files with all the bumps, but I hate the idea of duplicating the amount of space we use by bumps on the server.  

Or a really smart person would use a download manager, as mongo suggested  :-P  All our bumps can be downloaded using the following URL structure:

http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/dv/X

where X is the bump number.  Some download managers can do ranges of URLs, so you'd just give it something like http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/dv/[1-3000] to download the first 3000 bumps :p (assuming they are available).


Nebberz

#18
As much as I appreciate the other input, Crab I feel like your the only one who read my posts and understood.

The fact that there would be new bumps every week being a moot point was the whole idea of my last post!

Mongo's suggestion works while implementing your idea Crab, I will try that out. Thank you.

*edit*  I'm not blaming Mongo necessarily for not understanding me, it's probably just as much my fault for not being clear, and I'm a bit frustrated after so much searching!  I hope this idea works! (:

Also, hosting rar's on your site would be a totally lame idea and suck up your bandwidth faster than a....something that sucks fast.  (:  That's too bad you are not allowed to seed on your server, I hadn't heard of that before.  Then again, I'm no network admin either.

mongo

Just trying to help out :-P. There wasn't gonna be a file anyway, wouldn't have been correct to say there would be.
"For a moment, I lost my head. I was just a selfish, confused torso." - Bob Oblong

Nebberz

and you have!  trying it out now (:

mongo

Really hope it works for you. I've tried the method on some other sites and found it to be a real timesaver! Automates the tiring one-by-one part.
"For a moment, I lost my head. I was just a selfish, confused torso." - Bob Oblong

crab

Just so you know, we're having some issues with audio/video downloads at the moment.  You might want to wait until we get it straightened out.

Nebberz

So far it has worked like a charm.  Had a few errors, but I just restarted them.  Amazing advice and will definitely try this out on other sites...last time I used a download manager was in 56k days and it has seemed worthless to me ever since...they sure have come a long way since then!

We're very low income and don't usually donate to sites, but this has been such a service and was such quick help I think we'll have to make an exception.

It's too bad we can't donate directly to you guys though, because I don't think we have a problem with you running off and buying whatever you guys felt like. :P

Would like to at least make up for the extra bandwidth I pulled for grabbing these anyway.  Thanks again, I don't know how active I'll be at this site (so many awesome places on the internet...) but I'll try to visit time and again! (:


crab

Glad to help.  We're having a number of small issues with the new site, but things are starting to come together.

We never ask for donations :-P, but since you mentioned it, you actually can directly donate to us.  Check the footer navigation on any of the non-forum pages for the "donate" link.  It goes straight to our web host, so I can't have any steak dinners with it  :lol:

Nebberz

yea, i did find that link!  I was looking for even more direct means because I have no problem buying you a steak dinner for assisting and helping make all of this possible.  You deserve it!

But I can settle for web host donations I suppose. (:

The updated site looks awesome.  Far sleeker than before imo.  The browse all button is something I wish the internet would learn about...who wants to load up 50 gazillion pages to see 5-10 results each damn time.

Maybe a warning that it might lock up the computer for a bit with all that loading though?  This i7, 5770, 3 gig ddr3 pc choked for a minute after clicking it...but then again, loading around 3000 images and making your pc stumble a bit might be obvious. (;

mongo

I'm really glad to see it has helped :-D Happy bumping! By the way, I know what you feel like; when I first got involved with this site, before there being even a forum, I did the same thing; download every bump at first :-P. Sure, there weren't that many, but those were 56k days, so it still took a bit :lol: As crab said, we don't ask for donations :-P but if you feel like it it's appreciated. I apologize if I came off annoying or something at first, had a bit of a long day and didn't want to spend too much time thinking. Again, I'm really glad it's been working for you and if you need any help feel free to write!
"For a moment, I lost my head. I was just a selfish, confused torso." - Bob Oblong