Ravenus1 on 12/9/2021 at 01:20
epithumia,
Your a pillar to the community .
Thank You
zajazd on 12/9/2021 at 09:35
Very few things are more important in life than Thief.
A.Stahl on 12/9/2021 at 10:53
Quote Posted by zajazd
Very few things are more important in life than Thief.
Oh, I recognize good old overly-sweet and cringe-tier praising TTLG community :)
maga on 12/9/2021 at 15:45
Welcome back!!! I've been using your sitre so much during the years, so I really hope you will find time to update. Thank you for the great work!!!!
SlyFoxx on 14/9/2021 at 17:19
Seems I'm the only one who thinks Klingon pain sticks are in order here. :p
Toulomne on 15/9/2021 at 04:05
I second the motion that the current simple interface is wonderful and would hope never to see it replaced \ redone : )
<Username> on 15/9/2021 at 13:34
Ratings are probably not needed on Thief Missions anymore. There are only 241 rated missions on the site. Thief Guild has ratings for all missions and they get constantly updated as new votes come in.
epithumia on 16/9/2021 at 06:48
So a couple of things:
I have no intention of radically altering anything on thiefmissions. Partially because I have no time to do anything like that but also because I like it the way it is. (Even though I don't think I like powder blue quite as much as I used to.)
I would probably get rid of ratings. They were mostly for my usage and I basically stopped trying to rate missions a long time ago. Though if that information can be extracted from Thief Guild then I would consider doing that.
I do still find utility in other things like screenshots and especially the forum links. I would happily add links to Thief Guild. (Not that I have at this point actually visited Thief Guild. Sorry. I need to have a look at any other sites which have sprung up since I was last active.)
I am prototyping out an information submission interface, so you can tell me what's out of date or send me new info. Hopefully I can pull together enough time to get that functional, and then try to clean up the rest of the underlying code. That's a 20 year old code base at this point and things have changed a bit in the last 20 years. FTP basically isn't a thing these days but eventually you should be able to easily submit a mission.
I still have very little free time so I can't make any promises as to when this might happen, but I am trying to make it happen. I'm also not a web developer and don't pretend to be one, which means that something an experienced person could crank out in a day means a bunch of tinkering for me. But that's part of why I do it. I'm actually a sysadmin, which touches on all sorts of development including web stuff, but isn't the real focus. Creating thiefmissions was basically a way to learn, and I intend to use the current work to try and learn a bit more.
Also, I have to do some OS work on the machine, so it might be offline for a bit tomorrow.
Necrohowl on 16/9/2021 at 16:46
Just keeping the site up is enough, honestly, but it would be great to see new missions after all these years.
Your website is my top favourite, because it is nothing more than just a depository of Thief fan missions, nothing else, no bullshit, not even a "pretty" graphics overlay (I'm not against it but hey, nice super simplistic touch still).
Even if your work on the site these days is simply to keep it up, I say...Keep up the good work! Thumbs ups from me.
Iceblade on 16/9/2021 at 21:54
Hmm... I wonder if there is any interest in keeping the old versions of missions up as well. Namely the old dark versions for those missions that have been replaced. Though you may have already replaced them as well as other missions that have been updated pre-new dark.
PS Thief Missions is definitely my favorite FM site as well.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if there is a simple script that could take the info and links at this thread:
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https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151182#t2b)
and insert those links into the Walkthrough Lootlist slots for various missions at ThiefMissions.
Doing this manually would be a non-starter in my opinion.