Create subforum for peripherals and turtle upgrades for the latest version of computercraft

Please create a subforum in peripherals and turtle upgrades for peripherals and turtle upgrades for the lateset version of computercraft!

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Not gonna happen. It would be too much work to move large quantities of topics back and forth as they updated or fell behind. Most are marked with which versions they are compatible with in their topic title.

Thread movement only has to happen in one direction. When CC is upgraded, all addons would be dumped from the outdated subforum into the current subforum by simply merging the current and outdated subforums, which I assume the forum software lets you do, and creating a new subforum for current addons. This new subforum would be empty, as all addon mods inherently become outdated as soon as soon as the next version of CC is released. If and when mod authors update their mods, they would PM a moderator who would move it into the current addons subforum.

If you want to automate things, you could make a script on this website's server to merge the old subforums and make the new one. Dan200 or someone would just have to run it every time a new version of CC was released. Maybe mod authors could have a special page that would allow them to move their own thread from the outdated addons subforum to the current addons subforum so they don't have to bug a moderator every time they update their mod. Obviously, they would have to get this privilege from a moderator, who would just add their username and a link to their thread to a list somewhere. I could write the dumper script and maybe the mark-as-current script Soon™, but don't expect me to be able to do that for at least a few weeks.

You state that it only has to happen in one direction, then list two directions for thread movement. We won't be adding a "current" subforum, and we would not be likely to be using user-submitted scripts to do anything on the forums, especially to do with forum administration or moderation. It makes the most sense to simply keep them all in the one subforum, which also makes them easier to find, as it gives you a single place to search.

Individual thread movement would only happen in one direction, from the outdated subforum to the current subforum. Threads wouldn't be moved to the outdated subforum individually - instead, the two subforums would just be merged together as if the current subforum was being discontinued (IP.Board can merge forums, right?), and then a new, empty current subforum would be created.

I don't have to write the script - AfterLifeLochie or someone could probably do it. I'm just saying that it's probably simple enough so that I could write it in a reasonable amount of time. It's just a bunch of MySQL operations (or IP.Board PHP function calls if IP.Board supports that, which it hopefully does).

About searching, people would just search the main Peripherals and Turtle Upgrades subforum, which would have subforums for current and outdated ones. Maybe the outdated ones could go inside the current ones and you would make the current one the main one. Is it possible to make a virtual subforum (all addons) that's really the contents of two other subforums (current and outdated addons) combined?


Instead of all this, how about marking threads for currentness with an tag on the thread listing that shows if a addon is current or not? They would all change to outdated when a CC update comes out, and the mod author would have to manually put it back to current when he updates his mod. This could be as simple as messing with tags in the thread title. Changing thread tags can already be done by the opening poster of a thread, so the script would just have to look for every "current" tag and replace it with "outdated".

Most of the Peripherals that are updated for the latest versions are at the top of the list anyway, I don't see the point to this tbh.

This is only really useful anyways when there's been a massive API change or a new Minecraft release. The last huge change was 1.6, and I don't think there's going to be another for a while.