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This project manages all of the issues and recommendations that are brought up by the community. It will allow us to give a fair response to each user in a formal manner and allow users to see if an issue has already been brought up. Furthermore, it will allow leadership and other staff members the ability to track their progress on certain matters.
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auto-download feature #95

Closed wearhint closed 2 years ago

wearhint commented 2 years ago

Not an issue, just a suggestion. Could SMI have an auto-download feature so if a person has left their pc open and are at work or smt they can download the mods? I remember you saying that mod updates get sent after weekend, so ops aren't affected so this might only be a niche instance where it is useful.

SM-BJS commented 2 years ago

If you are on about a fully autonomous background process-based system, I'd probably avoid having that feature as if a mod is corrupt, I won't have any time to stop the update post the initial send out, therefore the end-user would install the corrupt version and would have to wait to manually get the fresh one.

I do see how this would benefit users who are absent from their PC, and that with a complete redesign/re-code of the server side modules and client update fetching it would be possible, but I think with privacy and safety in mind (as well avoiding a re-write), it would be best if we avoided implementing this kind of a system, thanks for the suggestion though.

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