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[Thandal]

Offering, requesting, promoting, or suggesting any form of "Modding for Money" will get the Nexus shut down faster than almost anything other than child porn.  The game publishers only allow sites like this to operate as long as there is NO real commerce being conducted. 

 

A Kickstarter campaign (or anything like one) for a mod would draw their lawyers faster than you can say "Cease and desist."

 

(We're not even sure how they feel about the Donation option we recently instituted.  So "DADT".)

[joyous1ariella]

Hi there,

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, or if I am the only one having this problem, but for the past half hour or so http://www.nexusmods.com/ has not been able to load. I get the message "service is unavailable, please try again later" or in chrome, it says it could not connect. My internet is working fine for other websites, and the forums on the nexus are working. Any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks,

joyous1ariella

 

Disregard, problem seems to be gone, not sure what caused it. Also found the bug reports section lol, I'll be sure to post this kind of thing there from now on

Edited by joyous1ariella, 09 July 2014 - 08:24 AM.

[AaronOfMpls]

The site has been very busy lately, joyous1ariella, from the recent Steam summer sale. (It's still doing a lot better than it did last Christmas, though. )

[PrimalSavage]

Can anyone give me some pointers as to why I'm unable to upload my Readme.txt file? I've managed to upload it in the past, but for the last week or so I haven't been able to do so. I've tried various name formats (ReadMe.txt, readme.txt, Readme.txt, UserGuide.txt, etc.), my mod page looks like this (Readme is not showing):

 

 

and the "View as a .txt" sends me to this page:

[AaronOfMpls]

The filename doesn't seem to matter. Mine are almost always AoM_ModName.txt (where AoM_ModName.esp is the actual mod file you put in your game). I don't think encoding matters, either (though mine are always UTF-8 ).

Is the file plain-text (i.e., something you'd save with Notepad or similar)?

If it is, the site might've just been busy (see my previous posts in this thread). Have you tried again at a quieter time?

Edited by AaronOfMpls, 12 July 2014 - 12:13 AM.

[PrimalSavage]

Thanks for the reply Aaron.

 

For some reason, no matter what filename I use, the filename gets renamed to: nexusmods.com/mods/166/readmes/ModName_readme.txt . Not sure if this has anything to do with my problem.

 

I usually do the ReadMe w/ Notepad, which by default seems to use ANSI, but I've also tried UTF-8 to no avail.

 

True that the site has been quite busy but:

• 17:26, 11 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 17:26, 11 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 15:50, 11 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 15:50, 11 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 16:37, 10 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 16:37, 10 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 1:20, 10 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 22:10, 9 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 22:10, 9 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 17:02, 9 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 17:02, 9 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 17:01, 9 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 12:15, 5 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 18:48, 4 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 18:46, 4 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 14:26, 3 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 14:25, 3 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 14:25, 3 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 3:03, 3 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 3:03, 3 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 3:01, 3 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 3:01, 3 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 1:49, 3 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 1:49, 3 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 1:45, 3 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 1:44, 3 Jul 2014 Readme removed
• 1:39, 3 Jul 2014 Readme added
• 1:38, 3 Jul 2014 Readme removed

At this point, I've put the ReadMe in a forum post, though I would obviously prefer to use the ReadMe tab.

[AaronOfMpls]

Have you tried refreshing (or hard-refreshing, Ctrl-F5) the page after uploading? Maybe it's there, but you just aren't seeing it yet.

(Don't worry about the Nexus renaming the file; that's normal. I always stick a copy with the original name in the same zip as my mod, anyway.)

[PrimalSavage]

CTRL-F5: Yes, tried. Also tried a different browser that I never use, still getting the error.

 

Just uploaded a test file (ReadMe.txt, UTF-8 )

http://www.nexusmods...ruct_readme.txt

 

Anyone seeing it?

Edited by PrimalSavage, 12 July 2014 - 06:29 PM.

[AaronOfMpls]

Nope, it's missing to me, too. The Readme tab on your mod is blank, and the .txt link goes to "Page not found!"

I also uploaded a test readme to one of my simpler mods a few minutes ago, and it went through OK. Re-uploading the original worked, too.

[PrimalSavage]

Thanks for testing it. I guess it's time to open a ticket...