3 hours ago, Stoopy said:

Good to know. If any of them Jehovah's Witness come banging on my door today I'm gonna show that to them as an example to follow...

😂😂😂

15 hours ago, Stoopy said:

Good to know. If any of them Jehovah's Witness come banging on my door today I'm gonna show that to them as an example to follow...

I let one in the other day as I wasn't too busy.  When I asked him what he wanted to talk about, he said he didn't know, as he had never gotten this far before!..  😀

As for flightsim.to, access has been quite erratic and troublesome for some time for me.  I think with the bandwidth usage (as pointed out earlier with global shipping traffic etc.) it is quite obvious they will need some kind of financial support for the longer term. 

The MSFS third party market (payware and freeware) has grow bigger that any of us would have imagined in this short space of time.  They have done a marvellous job to keeping it going up to now.

On another point, does anybody else get the single grey blank box in the listings on each page?  I wonder what is going on there?

Edited October 18, 20214 yr by bobcat999

2 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

On another point, does anybody else get the single grey blank box in the listings on each page?  I wonder what is going on there?

Most likely you're using an ad blocker of sorts? There's an ad in each section.

23 hours ago, Zangoose said:

Because the library on those sites (no offence) are old and outdated and isn't as appealing and really that easy to use compared to Flightsim.to. The search on Avsim for example has been hit and miss for a long time. It's also a bit of a pain to upload items as well. 

Cant argue with the massive amount of FS files this site and flightsim.com have. I remember the fun days uploading my wingviews back in the day. But as you said it is hit and miss and the GUI feels like its 1992. Yes the underlying data is what matters but a visually appealing and modern UI makes a big difference.

 

21 hours ago, Ixoye said:

I take the opportunity to visit when the Americans are asleep. then there is no queuing.

A good idea, will keep this in mind!

@ThrottleUp It's not just the appearance of the UI/GUI, it's the actual functionality of the file library. Avsim can't handle multiple versions of a file in a single listing (and therefore doesn't notify downloaders of updates), doesn't support user reviews, there's no categories or tags for specific aircraft or countries. Whereas FllightSim.To even has a indicator of what SU/WU a file is compatible with.

@Dillon They have found nicer homes. Avsim and FlightSim.com have a large collection of files for sims that are rapidly becoming "legacy", and their file libraries will similarly become a legacy feature rather than a current draw for audiences.

Edited October 18, 20214 yr by ckyliu

1 hour ago, ckyliu said:

@ThrottleUp It's not just the appearance of the UI/GUI, it's the actual functionality of the file library. Avsim can't handle multiple versions or updates (and therefore doesn't notify downloaders of updates), doesn't support reviews, there's no categories or tags for specific aircraft or countries

This is very true. Its very old skool style. Those features you mentioned along with a UI refresh would definitely drive more users to the site. The last time I was on there was in 2009.  

The Avsim library for better or worse is a repository for yesteryear and the ESP simulators of FS9, FSX and P3D. Avsim is really really good for just one thing, the forums and the exchange of information in them. 

The recent lunacy that is the 8k texture craze doesn't help one bit.    It offers very little visual benefit in the sim,  it offers a potential performance loss in sim,  and just eats up bandwidth.     It's all about vanity,  imo.   

Personally,  I do not download 8k liveries.   Around a month or so ago,  a single painter posted an 8k livery with "8K" proudly in the screenshot and description.   Since then,  half the painters fell and bumped their heads.   They're all trying to be "8K" because it's the latest draw.    Asobo is trying to optimize the experience,  and they're trying to eat up whatever memory gains Asobo found with textures that are 4 times the file size for a single livery.   

4k liveries make sense,  but 8k..   isht.

Just my opinion.

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PBR Texture Resolution vs file size

Resolution	File Size
128×128	59.1KB
256×256	196 KB
512×512	654 KB
1024×1024	2.17 MB
2048×2048	7.43 MB
4096×4096	24.82 MB
8192×8192	83.39 MB

 

Edited October 18, 20214 yr by Waldo Pepper

On 10/17/2021 at 3:24 PM, Dillon said:

It's time for Avsim and Flightsim.com to once again be our primary download sites.  Not sure how Flightsim.to cornered the market since the release of FS2020 but we've never had these kinds of issues in the 20+ years of use on our legacy sites.  Our third party community needs to come back home.

AVsim have received quite a lot of donations over the years. Still they are not able to host a screenshot I take that is a few kilobytes. What makes you think they can handle the Terrabytes of data needed to host a site like flightsim.to?