Mod Bakery: Discussion & Questions

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So, once this is released, will it become where mods are showcased, and showcasing them here will be disallowed?

Going to share some comments from people on our Discord

@Colou: If you just see the name modbakery.com, you're probably gonna think it's a bakery as opposed to a SHAR modding site.

The goal is for people to understand its a mod site in general, the site will be game agnostic but primarily focus on SHAR in the beginning.

@DeepFriedBurger: Will both Mod Bakery and Donut Team be connected in some ways, and will Donut Team still retain everything that it has now (the forums, user accounts, etc.)?

The current etched plan is to have DT hold the account system and Mod Bakery host everything else. Forum posts and user accounts will be kept exactly as is and just move over to the new site.

@DeepFriedBurger: Once Mod Bakery is released, what will happen to the Donut Team forums? Will showcasing mods be disallowed or discouraged there? Will posting about anything not related to Donut Mod be allowed?

The Donut Team Forums will cease to exist once Mod Bakery launches. All content currently on that forum will be moved to the new forum on Mod Bakery.

@Gordon CMB: Will the bakery be moderated? Also, if mod categories are gonna be a thing, will the categories in the bakery use Meta.ini information, or there's gonna be special categories inside the bakery itself?

Bakery will be moderated, but the details of that I don't think I can discuss just yet.
Mod Categories will exist, the ones used in the Meta.ini may be used, but i think having set categories rather than typing them out might be a better option for discovery reasons.

@DeepFriedBurger: Will the structure be sort of similar to Donut Team? As in, one big forum page and every topic (including mod launches) is posted there. If not, will there be a way to know whenever a topic is created so that you don't end up missing out on things that get posted and mods that get launched?

There will be the main forum and then other forums mod creators can create. Mod creators can moderate their own forum, however we will be able to overrule and remove that privilege if they begin to abuse it in anyway. You will be able to subscribe to mod pages and be notified when it receives an update. The forum will not be the primary place for reading about mods anymore.

@lavenfurr: will old mod releases from the forums be moved to the new system? or will it all just be stuck there until the mod owners manually move it across themselves

Migration will probably be manual I imagine (though Jake might have a different idea in mind) so we'll probably work with mod creators that are still around to move their stuff over. I'm guessing we'll probably have some kind of public testing version of the site prior to it actually being launched so that might help populate the listing beforehand.

@DeepFriedBurger: If everything is being moved over, what is happening to the mods/user accounts that are no longer active or being updated? The creator doesn't exist to create forum(s) regarding their releases, so what happens to them?

At this point I imagine we'll keep the contents of the Mod Showcase board as is in an archived state or something like that. The plan is to migrate all user accounts and forum posts but the actual forum boards won't be exactly the same.

@Stevens: Will the Karma system be transferred over or will there be a new system in place?

@DeepFriedBurger: I don't really mind regardless of whether or not it is removed or not. You can't really do anything with Karma, although earning it can feel satisfying.

@Stevens: idk , i think the karma system could be used for like a medal system which i think ive mentioned before somewhere
but like once you have like 30 karma you get a bronze badge/name/icon and silver at 50 etc

I have ideas on making the karma system better and having high karma unlocking more privileges. We don't have much to share on this yet, as it will probably be one of the last things we work on in terms of the website.

Jake, why are you referring to yourself in third person here?
"Migration will probably be manual I imagine (though Jake might have a different idea in mind)"

However, what will remain on the main site after Mod Bakery will be opened?

Jake just copied something I said, so it was me referring to him (though it is a bit confusing when he reposts it like that).

will the discord server be kept the same or will it change to a new "Mod Bakery" one?

Hey Nathan,

Sorry it took a few days to reply. We're not sure yet what we want to do for the Discord just yet. When we have more information, we'll let the community know!

Sincerely,
Jake