How yours (mod author) maintenance "Download" section and "Support" section page?

[greenmango12]

Sorry I could not find good document to up-date mod,, if you know teach me the link page please..

 

What I feel difficult was,,, so when we up-date mod,, we have 2 page,,, Download Page and Page for Support.

when I up-date donwload page inform (eg what new or describe to add guide) , it not auto reflect Support page...

so I often see,

in download page my version is 1.3 but if I open support page it still 1.2 and there is no inform about what I update,, or new usage..

 

So when you up-date your mod, and add some detail in download section,, you do same thing for support page too? ?

how yours manage 2 different page (but usually it should be same)  for Support and Download?

[fishburger67]

1 minute ago, greenmango12 said:

Sorry I could not find good document to up-date mod,, if you know teach me the link page please..

 

What I feel difficult was,,, so when we up-date mod,, we have 2 page,,, Download Page and Page for Support.

when I up-date donwload page inform (eg what new or describe to add guide) , it not auto reflect Support page...

so I often see,

in download page my version is 1.3 but if I open support page it still 1.2 and there is no inform about what I update,, or new usage..

 

So when you up-date your mod, and add some detail in download section,, you do same thing for support page too? ?

how yours manage 2 different page (but usually it should be same)  for Support and Download?

All you have to do is edit the support page and all your changes get brought over, simple.

[greenmango12]

10 minutes ago, fishburger67 said:

All you have to do is edit the support page and all your changes get brought over, simple.

Thanks !!

 

So when you up-date your mod,

1.  up-load new version >>  in download page action,  then describe what new..

2.  up-date detail or description in support page.. right?  >> it will auto relfect for download page?  

 

I usually try to edit inform in  download page ...  then it seems not reflected for support page..?

[RomeoZero]

In my opinion "Support page" should only be existed as a comment section and not as a different mod page. It is really confusing and frustrating, specially if you update mod page constantly with info or versions.

[LongDukDong]

I cannot say that this editing process just described as functional.

 

For some time, I have had issues with this.  When I update a mod and then wish to update the contents of the Download page, I use the "Edit Details" function.  One would think that any change made would be reflected into the Support Page.  However, it does not. Instead and I have to follow this up by later editing the main post of the support page..

On reading this content, I saw the suggestion that editing the Support Page instead gets reflected in the main download page.  But I cannot say that works either.

 

Only a week ago, I posted a Vampire Disease mod.  And after reading this, I decided to test the support page editing theory. So I went to my Vampire Disease Support thread and added a bit more to the first paragraph noting that this 'master' only handles transmission and nothing else.  Based on the suggestion, my Download Page should have been updated.  However, the change I made within the Support Page was not reflected at all.

 

Now, as to separation of the separation of Download and Support Threads  The Download Page is merely to hold the singular information of the mod contents.  As no posting by others is possible, it remains free of extraneous contents that would detract the reader.  This is separate from the support page which is a combination of help requests and content updates by the mod author him/herself.  I don't see it as confusing.

 

 

[Blaze69]

2 hours ago, LongDukDong said:

For some time, I have had issues with this.  When I update a mod and then wish to update the contents of the Download page, I use the "Edit Details" function.  One would think that any change made would be reflected into the Support Page.  However, it does not. Instead and I have to follow this up by later editing the main post of the support page..

The main post in the Support thread is definitely meant to be cloned from the Download page/description and mirror any changes made to it, so something must have gone wrong somewhere. Perhaps forum software machine broke and it's a widespread issue, or maybe you edited the Support post for you mod directly (and independently from the Download page) and somehow broke the "link" between the two. If that's even possible, which I have no idea about.

 

I'd try asking staff like @CPU about this in case they can look into it.

[Guest]

The only thing I can try to do is to re-link the support topic (that is like a sub-forum for the download page) and the download page itself (that is a single page.)

Send me the link of the mod and I will try.

[LongDukDong]

6 hours ago, CPU said:

Send me the link of the mod and I will try.

 

 

I'm the sitting duck?  How appropriate.    >o__

 

 

Here's my support page showing I performed the edit just yesterday.

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/185643-vampire-disease/

 

And here's the main download page that did not become updated after my support page edit.

https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/21081-vampire-disease/

 

Again, I always thought that updating the download page should update the support page, and that doesn't work properly either.  I only tried the support-page-edit technique after reading the above suggestion.

[Guest]

Done. Next time edit the File page. This will update automatically the first "Support" page.

Vice versa (editing support page directly) is not working.

[LongDukDong]

7 hours ago, CPU said:

Done. Next time edit the File page. This will update automatically the first "Support" page.

 

Unfortunately, that does not work.

 

As I did first state...

17 hours ago, LongDukDong said:

For some time, I have had issues with this.  When I update a mod and then wish to update the contents of the Download page, I use the "Edit Details" function.  One would think that any change made would be reflected into the Support Page.  However, it does not. Instead and I have to follow this up by later editing the main post of the support page..

I have indeed been editing the File Download page, hoping that the Support Page would follow suit and have the changes be reflected.  I had done such only just a month ago within my Tamago/Hiyoko Set Download, adding that the original 2012 set was also available within.  After updating the page with 'Edit Details', I had to follow suit and edit the support page thereafter.

 

For a test I just altered the page.  Directly under the flourish picture in my Tamago Download page, I had the text....

Quote

There are THREE downloads of your choice

But as of now, it shows....

Quote

There is only one download available. There are THREE downloads of your choice

... but this only appears on the download page.  The support page (as of right now) still did not reflect any update.

 

 

So yes, I did edit the file page.  But it did not automatically update the support page.

 

 

[Guest]

Sorry. For me the pages looks identical.

Can you take a couple of screenshots and highlight the parts that are not the same?

I will try to focus on the items I may have missed. (Tomorrow, I am going to sleep in 10 minutes)

[LongDukDong]

Okay....

The above is from the download page.  And above is encircled the text which I had changed within.

 

And this is from the support page which did not change or refresh after my edit to the main download page.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

I am confused.

The links you posted does not seem to be related to the text you just posted.

 

 

Here is the link you sent before:

 

 

Can you please send me the links to the file that has the problem?

[LongDukDong]

Alright.  Got mixed up. For I did state I tried the reversal method with Tamago (above)....

 

 

THIS... is the main download page.  As you can see, I underlined the text added, and when.

 

 

This is the support page.  The underlined text from the main download page does not appear as the page did not update with the new content.

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

I'm just chiming in to say I see the samme issues as LongDukDong. I updated the content text in the section "ADDONS AND COMPATIBILITY PATCHES FOR OTHER MODS" for my mod Demonic Creatures a few weeks ago. I did it from the download filepage. The support page does not show this change yet. I've experienced this several times earlier too.

 

EDIT: I'm not calling out for help here, just putting some wood on the fire.

[greenmango12]

I perfectly forget this topic ^^;  (because I felt most of others seems manage well ,, but I still not)

I really often see issue, when I up-date.

 

I actually try both,, 

1.  edit,, support page description >> confirm, it up-date >>  2 edit ,download page , action >> edit description,,,,  after all it remove my edit in support page.. (do not know reason)

2. edit detail of download page, after up-load contents and what new  >>  it not auto up-date support page description  >> after all I up-date again.

 

though nowdays, I make new topic, or describe what I changed in Support page, then link it to show what have changed with each version.

what new everytime deleate old description, so it can not use to keep all modifed log, (and I do not think many often check it, because it is most lower postion, in the page,,)

[greenmango12]

On 3/4/2022 at 4:53 PM, CPU said:

The only thing I can try to do is to re-link the support topic (that is like a sub-forum for the download page) and the download page itself (that is a single page.)

Send me the link of the mod and I will try.

 

Ideally,,,

1. mod author only concentrate, download page description, (tune well or, add new info etc, and when add new functions, change it in download page)

 

2.  the page description auto up-date support top page description,,,   (ideally) with remain download page link..

 

if 2  not work, (or it cause other problem etc),,   I hope 2 page not have relation ,,each other..

I really afraid, if I remove all description in support page, if it will remove my download page description.. not ?? (I do not test it,, so hope someone confirm it ^^;)

 

if 2 page have no relation, (they are perfectly separate page,, but only have link to download page /support page)

  I may only remain, link to download page in my support page description,, or only remain version log  in support top page... it make easy to manage when I need up-date information, or usage,, etc...

[LongDukDong]

For any moderator reading this, I am about to update my  Tamago/Hiyoko Set Download, replacing the master set zip file with a newer one and then edit the details on on the download page. The change will be regarding the version number of the HiyokoClub master (v 1.12 replaced by v 1.13).  Hopefully, the support page will refresh by itself and the contents will be mirrored.

 

If not, I'll be editing this post afterwards.

 

EDIT:  Nope. Had to manually update the main support post.  Contents are not mirrored.

[Guest]

Very odd, I've never had issues with edits to main pages not reflecting on the support page. Typically the support page will auto update itself. I say this as someone who frequently edits mod desriptions.

[greenmango12]

13 hours ago, Etrius vanRandr said:

Very odd, I've never had issues with edits to main pages not reflecting on the support page. Typically the support page will auto update itself. I say this as someone who frequently edits mod desriptions.

Yes it is odd,, so recently I do  not see this issue any more..

but sometimes, it not up-date soon.. (so I re- log in, then confirm)

and before,, it not work sometimes...  so I needed  to edit 2 Page one by one... 

 

Now I edit, download page >>> it reflect edit support page...  it seems work at current for me..