Re: [pygame] Registration disabled.

2016-04-28 Thread DiliupG
Tom Rothamel has a good point. Why not hae a dropbox or a google drive to upload projects with a link to them on the Pygame site? On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Greg Ewing wrote: > Ian Mallett wrote: > >> As has been explained before, the reason is due to a historical deluge of >> spam. >> >

Re: [pygame] Registration disabled.

2016-04-28 Thread Greg Ewing
Ian Mallett wrote: As has been explained before, the reason is due to a historical deluge of spam. Perhaps some explanation of the reason could be included in the message? As it is, this looks like a bug, so you can't blame people for reporting it as such, or for getting a bit frustrated when t

Re: [pygame] Registration disabled.

2016-04-28 Thread Tom Rothamel
I'd suggest at this point, the pygame project has "too much" of a web presence. It seems like the current website requires a lot of ongoing effort, compared to the amount of time people are able to commit to pygame. I think it might make sense to just cut the pygame website back to the basics - a

Re: [pygame] Registration disabled.

2016-04-28 Thread Alec Bennett
Or if someone wants to be curator, just replace the whole submission process with an email address and/or Dropbox link, and let people submit the projects that way? On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:28 AM, DiliupG wrote: > I was not trying to be rude or offensive to anyone. If it seems so, please > a

Re: [pygame] Registration disabled.

2016-04-28 Thread DiliupG
I was not trying to be rude or offensive to anyone. If it seems so, please accept my humble apologies. If given the chance I would like to help to clear all the unnecessary remarks. Can;t we port the web site to a Wordpress or similar site where we could build a team to look after the site? If th

Re: [pygame] Registration disabled.

2016-04-28 Thread cupz
The IRC pointed me to the mailing list but I'll ask around some more. Can't pygame appoint someone with upload privilages to email submissions to? This person could also serve as quality control. I don't really care about membership, I just want to share my little prototypes to people interested i

Re: [pygame] Registration disabled.

2016-04-28 Thread herve
On 28/04/2016 09:15, Ian Mallett wrote: ​​On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:27 PM, DiliupG > wrote: Pardon me for saying so but I simply can't understand why those who maintain this site can't rectify this problem which has been persisting for many years. Can anyon

Re: [pygame] Registration disabled.

2016-04-28 Thread Ian Mallett
​​On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:27 PM, DiliupG wrote: > Pardon me for saying so but I simply can't understand why those who > maintain this site can't rectify this problem which has been persisting for > many years. Can anyone point out the reason for this? > Be nice, now. As has been explained befo