I can't see the future either, but I can see the past, and the past tells me that
nothing is safe;
nothing is permanent. Not mod sites, not filesharing sites, not torrents, not personal web sites, not "the cloud" (more or less a rebranding of filesharing). 2 years ago I started writing about Morrowind mods in my blog, as I was using them, and I scoured the sites looking for mods that were mentioned here and there. Often I found pages and pages full of dead links because entire services and brands had disappeared. I only used the working links I could find in my blog posts. Now, 2 short years later, around half of
those links are dead, too, because yet more personal web sites and entire mod hosts have disappeared since then. The ones that remain working are the ones on Planet Elder Scrolls and the Nexus. I don't even trust that these forums will stick around, after that sudden loss of the old forums in recent memory, and considering some of the wording in the recent Bioware community survey.
So to me, fretting about which sites are likely to last is pointless. It'll
all go away at some point, and there probably won't be any warning. So if you want your stuff to last, put it in as many places as you can.
As for exposure and awards...I could mention that there's the File of the Month on the Nexus, which puts the top 5 mods each month on a permanent list, and there's the "Hot Files" list, which automatically puts the 6 most endorsed mods of the past two weeks on the front page, and there are other plans for spotlighting underdog mods... Blah blah blah. It's there if you want it.
PS to Ark: I appreciate your vote of confidence regarding becoming a community coordinator, but I really don't know if I could take on that kind of responsibility. I have mods to make, games to play, forums to read, the AME to participate in, and a blog to write.
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Modifié par Tchos, 18 septembre 2012 - 12:59 .
