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so...? ok, I changed it back.

Who changed the title of this thread? And why?

I'm not missing the point - and you just made mine -- casual users of the service aren't using those features.

I agree with all: Some people either get too complacent or too lazy to mirror their code bases on :gasp: their own storage, especially the non-commercial repo user. But we can't ignore the fact that the security of these hosting sites - GitHub in particularly - is presumed by their users to be as good as or better than a person's harddrive. I mean, it's not like many developers have lost literally years worth of work from a HD crash, ahaha-- Oh wait... Git certainly is, but GitHub and those other services are code hosting sites - says so right on the package. GitHub make its bread&butter from providing hosting services to money-paying, commercial|corporate users -- all before Microsoft invested in, bought them. This kind of breach better not have happened with those users... Most non-paying users who haven't saved locally are safe in that their hosted code base has probably been forked anyway, already, so somebody in the world can provide a copy of that. I wonder how much GitHub charges if you asked them to provide a restore from their backups, hmm...

well, Damn! That's it! Thank you! A few pixels added, and all is well.

lol, thanks for describing that!-- I should have stated that I'm using a userstyle to color Red any links I've visited. I just did a hard refresh on the page, and still no folder tree. I see this:

FYI from the SANS NewsBites Vol. 21 Num. 036 (tech security newsletter):

This version is gone again. What gives?

No, let's do that... This has been discussed many times, over many years. Perhaps before you joined the BG community. So I don't mean to bring up bad history, but just answer the question. I don't have links to many of the criticisms; I don't have links to the best comments -- I'll leave that to others to contribute. I do have a link to a comment that succinctly states why some players - myself included - will stick to the original versions, despite all the valid points you make (and those points are facts, no doubt or debate): http://www.shsforums.net/topic/54271-comments-on-bgee-bg2ee-news/page-30#entry545972 Another statement really hits home, again despite the technical advantages of EE (and that most of the thread discussion is about other things EE-related): http://www.shsforums.net/topic/54271-comments-on-bgee-bg2ee-news/page-45#entry550821 My own direct, point-of-view, I'll give the devil his due and say this: I would buy EE versions only if it was just the engine updated. I don't want to see, hear, or smell any EE surface content: no new GUI, no new NPCs, no changed story canon, god-help-us no new cutscenes, etc. If I can play BG1 & BG2 exactly how I've always played them--with just the game engine being EE-ified--I'll buy it. This would give players like me the pleasure to play mods like yours. Which I would totally do, your mod sounds kickass! Pity, I guess that chance won't happen.

oh god, thanks for putting the 'forum-tree' links back at the top of each page. (Hiding) showing only the current forum-link in some white blob in the upper-left was infuriating. For nitpickers like me.

Although I certainly wouldn't discourage any programmagical way of gaining information, there is still the valid "Lol's Kit Guide". There's alot of info in there, and a lot of effort was made to create it. Sure, it needs updating, but that's a task for a new generation of smiley-deranged members.

Nice tool, thanks for the creation and sharing. Call me lazy {go ahead!}, but this can be run multiple times? It would be interesting to see if a spell's description changes after installing certain mods.

Welcome back, G3 and SHS! "Who'd a thought we need ya!" :cough: Sorry, I'm dating myself (and others). Is this for G3 only or SHS and G3 combined? Here, here! I really want to know this too. Please give us more details on whether or not server hosting will be separated for the two sites. And, I really-Really-REALLY hope y'all will include Patreon and similar. For both sites. Does this have to wait til the move? How can we help, right now? I too am ready to step-up & provide financial support. (My sysadmin days are long gone--thank god.)

A Life Renewed - At Last! Thank you for reviving -and continuing to contribute- to this mod! I got a peripheral request... Could future versions not preface its promotion as "Nythrun's mod...<etc>" and instead use the neutral convention that nearly all other mods use: simply, introduce it by its name. I don't want to take away anything from Nythrun's contribution. Yes, she created this mod -- and made my and others' dream come true. All praise goes to her for that -- shared with those who added, maintained and/or corrected the code, over the years. But we who were originally there, creating & promoting the idea (and the ideal) of this mod, always wanted it to be a much-more community-adopted project. And presented as such. I wish that it had been more so like that for much of its life. Perhaps future development will make that dream come true.

What I love most about this thread, is that CamDawg has proven there's no text limit in an individual post. Wisp, aVENGER, CamD, and everyone who's contributed to the mod's development-- thank you! much praise!