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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ooof. We need a new place now.

[–] unit327@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

A new website will suffer the same fate eventually. The best solution I've seen is CKAN for kerbal space program mods. Each mod just hosts its own releases for free on github or wherever they like, and the whole mod index is just another github repo.

https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN?tab=readme-ov-file#whats-the-ckan

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The problem with that it's not "wherever they like", it is github 99% of the time. It is easier to fix when github enshitifies completely, but it will still require fixing

[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If it works with any git platform, you have several alternatives + self hosting.

The chokepoint is the index, but if the mod repo is up and you have the url by some other way, it should work

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

It does but it does so far as someone updates indices. It's easier with git, but someone still needs to do all of it.