I am here to complain. People aren't going to like this complaint because...
I'm here to complain about Adfly. I have already had to click through 45 or so adfly links. BTW, I use AdBlock+ in my browser, so all it is is a hassle. 45 or so mods with adfly links has taken me in excess of 2 hours to download because i have to wait for the button to appear that takes me to the file.
This is, by the by, two hours of my life that I could have spent assembling my mods and troubleshooting any resource/id conflicts. It's two hours of my life that I could have spent actually playing with the mods. It's two hours of my life that I will never get back.
I understand that folks want to get paid for their work. I do. And I think Adfly is probably the best of a bunch of bad alternatives. It's the least of all evils, if you would. And I would love it if there were some better choice. Waiting 5 seconds to download and another 10 before I can get another download is too much time, especially when there are something like 100 things to do that for.
So I implore developers to find a way to dynamically speed up the process. Anything like a central mod download client (chock full of ads, even!) would go a long way toward making me want to do this again. I don't even want to continue doing what I've already started, right now, except that I know the end result is going to be awesome because of everything you who are modders and players already do to make these mods great.
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I am here to complain. People aren't going to like this complaint because...
I'm here to complain about Adfly. I have already had to click through 45 or so adfly links. BTW, I use AdBlock+ in my browser, so all it is is a hassle. 45 or so mods with adfly links has taken me in excess of 2 hours to download because i have to wait for the button to appear that takes me to the file.
This is, by the by, two hours of my life that I could have spent assembling my mods and troubleshooting any resource/id conflicts. It's two hours of my life that I could have spent actually playing with the mods. It's two hours of my life that I will never get back.
I understand that folks want to get paid for their work. I do. And I think Adfly is probably the best of a bunch of bad alternatives. It's the least of all evils, if you would. And I would love it if there were some better choice. Waiting 5 seconds to download and another 10 before I can get another download is too much time, especially when there are something like 100 things to do that for.
So I implore developers to find a way to dynamically speed up the process. Anything like a central mod download client (chock full of ads, even!) would go a long way toward making me want to do this again. I don't even want to continue doing what I've already started, right now, except that I know the end result is going to be awesome because of everything you who are modders and players already do to make these mods great.
Because right now, it's not awesome.
Most mod authors are on both sides of the fence about this too (personally I am too), they want to get at least some revenue from their work (ad.fly actually generates an incredibly tiny amount of revenue), but they also don't want their fans and mod users to have to face all of the problems that ad.fly presents (malicious ads, waiting, etc).
I know some mod authors do this, and I'm pretty sure most do it too, but check if there's a direct link (like a Dropbox link that instantly downloads the mod). It's usually signified by an asterisk (*) or something.
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You do understand that modders want to get paid for their work, yet you use adblock, which hides ads and generates 0 profit to the modders, even if you wait those 5 seconds staring at a blank screen. So you just wasted 2 hours and gave nothing to the modders, good job I guess.
Anyways, you can look for modpacks that have at least some of the mods you want, it shouldn't take that long and you can just extract the mods from them. Some modders, including me, provide the direct link next to the adfly link for people who don't want to use adfly for whatever reason.
If you do want to support modders, many of them have Patreon and from what I've seen, most of them will remove adfly links once the revenue they get from donations is bigger than adfly revenue. I guess that is the way to go, support modders and tell others to support them that way, and adfly may be gone eventually.
I'm here to complain about Adfly. I have already had to click through 45 or so adfly links. BTW, I use AdBlock+ in my browser, so all it is is a hassle. 45 or so mods with adfly links has taken me in excess of 2 hours to download because i have to wait for the button to appear that takes me to the file.
This is, by the by, two hours of my life that I could have spent assembling my mods and troubleshooting any resource/id conflicts. It's two hours of my life that I could have spent actually playing with the mods. It's two hours of my life that I will never get back.
I understand that folks want to get paid for their work. I do. And I think Adfly is probably the best of a bunch of bad alternatives. It's the least of all evils, if you would. And I would love it if there were some better choice. Waiting 5 seconds to download and another 10 before I can get another download is too much time, especially when there are something like 100 things to do that for.
So I implore developers to find a way to dynamically speed up the process. Anything like a central mod download client (chock full of ads, even!) would go a long way toward making me want to do this again. I don't even want to continue doing what I've already started, right now, except that I know the end result is going to be awesome because of everything you who are modders and players already do to make these mods great.
Because right now, it's not awesome.
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Most mod authors are on both sides of the fence about this too (personally I am too), they want to get at least some revenue from their work (ad.fly actually generates an incredibly tiny amount of revenue), but they also don't want their fans and mod users to have to face all of the problems that ad.fly presents (malicious ads, waiting, etc).
I know some mod authors do this, and I'm pretty sure most do it too, but check if there's a direct link (like a Dropbox link that instantly downloads the mod). It's usually signified by an asterisk (*) or something.
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Curse PremiumAnyways, you can look for modpacks that have at least some of the mods you want, it shouldn't take that long and you can just extract the mods from them. Some modders, including me, provide the direct link next to the adfly link for people who don't want to use adfly for whatever reason.
If you do want to support modders, many of them have Patreon and from what I've seen, most of them will remove adfly links once the revenue they get from donations is bigger than adfly revenue. I guess that is the way to go, support modders and tell others to support them that way, and adfly may be gone eventually.
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