Archives to be deleted...

[Kamal]

To conserve space on the server and with the hosting ailing, I'm seriously considering deleting the archives (in an effort to consolidate hosting accounts). I know people under 100 posts wont see the archives, those that sign up wont see them, and they wont be motivated enough to post enough to discover them, and the ones that do will probably spend another 3 years hitting 100. These make the archives...unnecessary (at least I feel).

If I get a certain number of positive responses to this thread, I'll keep 'em, if not, I'm gonna delete them.

John Digweed Transitions
Hernan Cattaneo Metrodance

[Dhar_2]

Re: Archives to be deleted...

whats in the archives?

sets?

or general threads?

if its music isnt there some way to put them somewhere else?

[Kamal]

Re: Archives to be deleted...

Sorry I wasn't specific, main thread updated now.

[chuckc]

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I am sure (at least in my case) most on here have downloaded most of those old shows so I dont see a problem deleting them to save space....

Maybe keep the birthday archive since its so small??

[simonr]

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Noooooo !!!!!!!!!!!

Preserve them ..... I now need to hastily d/l everything in there.

[unkle]

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Please delete this shit .........

http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?538-Podcasts-and-Mass-Uploads

[floridaorange]

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I don't mind them being deleted.

[simonr]

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We are the only place on the net that has this music, once its gone its all lost

[floridaorange]

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^You're right it should be stored on someones external hard drive, I nominate Simon for that task .

[Jenks]

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Since this Mercuryserver thing has been (mostly) about Digweed since day one, I think it's pretty cool that we're the only place that has all of his music archived, and very nicely archived with tracklists and direct links. Until this thread came up I hadn't looked at the Archive in a long long time. So I went there just now, and spent quite awhile looking through all the sets, tracklists, downloaded a few to relive a few memories, and just thought- wow, it's a really cool thing to have all of that music archived. If the archive goes, I think we will have lost a piece of Mercuryserver- one of those "didn't know what we had until it was gone" kinda feelings, but are we going to hold on to this stuff forever?? I dunno, and I'm glad I don't have to make that decision. I completely understand the financial burden and space all of that data consumes, so I'm cool with whatever decision is made. Definitely give some notice if you decide to dump it so as many people that want to can grab as many of those musical memories as they want.

Onward and Upward? Hmmm...just kinda feels like Onward, but it is what it is.

[floridaorange]

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Let's add rep points back in to the mix

[unkle]

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Kamal, are you crazy ??? Dont delete the Hernan Metrodance archive.
A part of history lives there, even, in the Digweed archive,
if you delete that, it goes a part of us with that.

As I said before, if you want space,
delete the Mass Shit uploads
or something else.

[DIDI]

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What simon said ! To me the archive is what makes MS still special. It's the only thing except basic posting and pms that I use. In this day and age , you need something that sets you apart from all the facebook type crap rather than trying to be more like them. Make it all about the music again. I really don't need to know what my "friends" are posting, and I wouldn't expect it on a serious music site if I did. I don't want totally inappropriate recommendations for Djs. If I wanted a DJDB it would be one with totally current bio's. I looked up John Digweed recently and his bio is 10 years old It's speaking of coming up to the second year of Kiss 100 . It might surprise you how many people feel the same way I do, but they just go away rather than get involved in petty wars for daring to state the bleeding obvious. Or if you are female getting not so subtle references to pms. Or of course get banned. We have lost a lot of great members over the last couple years.

How much space does it take up.??? I'd be quite happy to invest in a couple of externals.

With you on that unkle

To sum up, perhaps the whole site needs to be looked at to see if there are better ways to deal with the problem. Maybe run the site for music rather than nerds ?? A lot of the simple things don't work anymore. It's really annoying posting when editing etc doesn't work properly. Unfortunately for some, it doesn't stop me Get back to the basics. !!! The Kiss principle

[DIDI]

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Let's add rep points back in to the mix

What ?? So people can abuse other members or make gratuitous sexual references anonymously ?? Removing rep was a great idea, glad you have the there

[Jenks]

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As I said before, if you want space,
delete the Mass Shit uploads

^those don't take up any real physical space as the data is hosted elsewhere. Kamal is actually hosting ALL the audio data and the bandwidth needed to support the Archives.