December 21, 2024GMLscripts.com 3.6 Transition
This update represents one of the biggest changes to GMLscripts.com to
date and it has been a long time coming. I wasn't sure how to introduce the
changes but fate took an unfortunate turn. Some personal upheaval resulted
in the site going offline for a couple of months which somewhat forced my
hand. The site is back and at first glance, things appear the same.
However, there are two major changes.
First, the forums are no longer accessible. I'd been wanting to wind them down for a few years because they were never very active and the forum software itself is no longer maintained by its developers. Even when it was being supported, keeping the software up to date required a lot of manual, error-prone effort because of all the modifications I've made over the years. However, I think GitHub can help us out, and I intend to open Discussions there soon and script submissions can still be made via Pull Request.
Second, the site is no longer dynamic. This has less of an effect on you than on me. Until now, all script pages were generated from a pair of source files which are found in the GitHub Script Repository — the GML script itself and an extended Markdown document. This was a nice system because script updates in the repo automatically appeared on the site. However, that is over. No more PHP, no more MySQL — at least here. The emergency "static mirror" is now the only version of the site. I still locally generate the static version of the site using the same dynamic backend but I'm looking into new site generation options.
At the moment things are in transition and less than ideal. I have more tidying to do and I want to develop a fresh trajectory soon.
Good luck to you all in 2025.