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I think his point was more that this has been raised before, and the discussion went around in circles.  Someone needs to actually do something, rather than another discussion starting!

Okay, images can now be uploaded either from a URL or from hard disk.  This will then be stored locally, rather than on a potentially unreliable external host.  I've actually been secretly mirroring people's linked screenshots for months, so there are already 131 images stored locally, which I've now set as the default image.

Broken image links will now no longer be marked as such when an image is successfully uploaded too.

Whoops!  It's probably been like that for quite a while, since I was last fiddling with it before I left work a few hours ago.  Thanks for fixing it, Peder!

There's a very simple SMF addon, while I cba to hack it into the main site!

I have vaguely thought about social media support in the main site, but it's a low priority.

I just realised that the 'this image is dead' database field doesn't actually get reset when you upload a new image.  I'll fix that soon!

It's meant to be a fallback in case the original link times out.  I should probably change that though, since having all images stored locally would be a lot more reliable.

That was happening when someone was credited for a game that no longer existed in the database.  I changed it so those entries will now be ignored.

Okay, I've done that.  Any change?

Okay, so on my PC on Firefox 20.0.1 it shows where it's mean to, but on my girlfriend's it shows like on yours.  Any ideas anyone?!

I could just as easily have it so users are able to upload directly from their HD OR link to an external source.  It'll set that up soon.

Fixed the credits thing. 

The close window thing doesn't happen to me though, in Firefox, IE or Chrome.  Does this happen on all games' pages, or just some?  If just some, can you give examples?

That is where the original AGS Archives was hosted, before Peder started his version.  Pretty sure the files should mostly still be there though?

This is a list of all the download links that have been marked as broken, by the way.

since you can indentify game without screenshot now, what do you think about not displaying these games on the startpage within the randomly selected games there? Or would this narrow the number of games shown down too much?

It now shows a placeholder image where the link's broken.  I don't want to completely ignore these games, as this would reduce the publication of so many games.

That's a cunning way of doing it.  That way it will only take 26 volunteers to do this properly!  Please be sure to mark any broken download links using the link on a game's page too.  And post here, to see if anyone like Peder has it in their archives.

So I worked out a way of identifying which image links in the games database are broken.  This page gives a full list.  As you can see, around a third of all games has a broken link, which is unfortunate, and messy looking.

Could everyone who reads this please make sure at very least their own games have valid image links.  If you're playing another game that doesn't have a valid image, please take a screenshot and send it to me, and I'll fix it for you.  Images should be hosted places that support hotlinking, and are ideally quite reliable (such as agser.me or agsarchives.com.  Keeping the hosting within the community should make it a lot more likely to last.  A local mirror of the image will also be made on the AGS site every time an image link is updated.

If anyone has any difficulty with this process, please let me know!

Did it come with those limited edition National Rail tickets too?

I still have my fullsized cardboard boxed copy, because I'm old skool.

I'd rather buy an "Ultimate Ben Jordan Collectors Box", preferably signed.

I've got one, I won it on a Mittens quiz about ten years ago.  You can buy it for â,¬1m!

Is this the first time in what, nine years?  Don't pull a CJ, man!

Oh yeah.  When I renamed "Project Tools" to "Bug and Suggestion Tracker", I didn't notice there were dozens of slightly different variables used across the tracker that also needed to be changed.  It should be more consistent now!