A word of warning to plug-in developers of any ASW game: Ambrosia's addon page has a bug (no, not the "3,000 visitors this month, 600 visitors this year" bug). Some of you have noticed it: the addons pages randomly chooses submissions and refrains from counting their number of downloads.
I've tracked down this bug: The script will only be prevented from counting DLs if the filename (excluding the suffixes) has spaces AND capital letters. if your filename is all lowercase without spaces, you're fine; if it has caps, but no spaces, you're fine too. But you cannot have both.
This theory was tested, by the way.
And yes, it worked.

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Will they fix this, if it is fixable, and I think it is.

_Wire

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Of course they'll try to fix this, as soon as moki has some spare time. It doesnt sound too hard to fix.

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Originally posted by Cafall:
if your filename is all lowercase without spaces, you're fine; if it has caps, but no spaces, you're fine too. But you cannot have both.

You know, technically, you're not supposed to have spaces in your file names anyway. And caps are a pretty much no-no when it comes to naming files on the Web.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not a bug, it's a feature.

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(This message has been edited by nwa728 (edited 05-31-2004).)

This doesn't seem like a major problem, let alone one hard to correct, apart from the reference of the people viewing it...

-Lequis

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This isn't a huge problem, just something that always bugged me which didn't seem to be widely known. The purpose of this topic is to warn developers about the bug (which is why the topic is on two other boards), not a plea for the bug to be fixed.

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Heh..I think it's an ASW conspiracy.

(???)

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Originally posted by Cafall:
**This isn't a huge problem, just something that always bugged me which didn't seem to be widely known. The purpose of this topic is to warn developers about the bug (which is why the topic is on two other boards), not a plea for the bug to be fixed.

**

If you use underbar instead of space the counter will work and the underbar is converted to a space on the description.

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Thanks for tracking this down -- I had surmised it had something to do with spaces, but I hadn't figured that capital letters would matter. Very odd.

::wanders off to strangle the guy who wrote the scripts::

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Will they fix this, if it is fixable, and I think it is.

Huh? Is that a trick comment? That sounds like ME, jumping around from topic to topic. I think I get it now...

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If you use underbar instead of space the counter will work and the underbar is converted to a space on the description.

I've tested this, and yes, it works. Thanks for the tip.
Periods should also work. I've just submitted a file to the PoG Addons page (get VolumeControl now! etc.) and it should be up soon, so we'll see.

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Yep, periods work. It's been delayed for a long time, but my file has been uploaded and It has gotten around the bug, which means you can put your version numbers in the filenames.

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Originally posted by EVula:
**You know, technically, you're not supposed to have spaces in your file names anyway. And caps are a pretty much no-no when it comes to naming files on the Web.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not a bug, it's a feature.

**

Yeah, because for some reason my browser just won't let me download those files at all. So if only a thousand Mikes played EV, the download counter would be accurate because they wouldn't be able to download it.

I've had success with FTP though, but my connection's instability often results in problems.

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