Request CW Germany to be added to user files

[sirrah]

A new module, so a new request..

So amaturistic that we need to ask for this with each new module release... 

[sirrah]

It appears to have been added now

[cfrag]

45 minutes ago, sirrah said:

It appears to have been added now

Finally. And yet, the site still uses a braindead "F%ck you, content creator!" description-clobbering script from the 90s of the past century to filter for keywords and rips them apart, so any carefully crafted description of a mission looks like it was written by an orthographically challenged imbecile. Bravo. Makes the User Files really look classy...

Edited Saturday at 12:06 PM by cfrag

[silverdevil]

On 4/26/2025 at 8:04 AM, cfrag said:

Finally. And yet, the site still uses a braindead "F%ck you, content creator!" description-clobbering script from the 90s of the past century to filter for keywords and rips them apart, so any carefully crafted description of a mission looks like it was written by an orthographically challenged imbecile. Bravo. Makes the User Files really look classy...

haha. Bitter, there is a call on line one for you. workaround for your issue is do not use it. 

[cfrag]

23 minutes ago, silverdevil said:

workaround for your issue is do not use it.

?

You mean that I should not add a description to the mission I created? Because the stupid script gets to work on the description and sullies it when I submit the entire thing (mission, description, images, tags). Then again - yeah, not using ED's User Files seems indeed the smartest thing to to -- that section of the "DCS experience" seems dilapidated, unkempt, and hostile to all users.

Edited Sunday at 12:49 PM by cfrag

[silverdevil]

1 hour ago, cfrag said:

dilapidated, unkempt, and hostile to all users.

i am part of the all here and i never considered the user files hostile. kind of extreme. but it is okay for you to have an opinion. sorry that you are not satisfied.

by the way. i like your mission, Hamburg Tourist Map

Edited Sunday at 02:42 PM by silverdevil

[cfrag]

1 hour ago, silverdevil said:

by the way. i like your mission

Thank you for your kind words. That mission's description made it through the site's filter intact. It's sister mission, "Angels over Germany" not so much:

• "people fr om all over split"
• "it the LZ wh ere some"

I checked my original copy, the blanks where inserted by some silly bot that homes in on "from" and "where", reminiscent of the code-injection deny scripts of 1997. Why this is active, I have no idea, and it does bother me, since it makes me look bad, as if I did not spend time to carefully ready what I put in there.

And the rest of User Files submission page presents similarly last-century: a (now updated to include Germany) 'map' popup that could get the info from the miz (so why ask for it), same for the aircraft type and single-/multiplayer mission, a max 1 MB image limit (really???), no drag and drop support for file attachments, and a new "User Votes" link that I have no idea what it is for. And, of course, no preview, nor formatted text etc. My granddad's Geocities page looked better, and he sadly passed a long time ago. To me the entire User Files region looks like the rundown, dying part of a city.

Edited Sunday at 04:15 PM by cfrag

[silverdevil]

46 minutes ago, cfrag said:

• "people fr om all over split"
• "it the LZ wh ere some"

odd for sure. funny coincidence. my logitech kb has started to spam the spacebar. meaning it will do multiple presses sometimes.

48 minutes ago, cfrag said:

Geocities page looked better

LOL. well in ED's favor. they have a lot going on and this issue is likely at the bottom of the list of TO DO.

[cfrag]

18 hours ago, silverdevil said:

odd for sure. funny coincidence.

It's unfortunately not coincidence, someone has at some point in time actively added a script for this, and it has affected submissions for years. Words like "update" (upd ate), "from" (fr om), "where" (wh ere), "set" (se t), "repeat" (rep eat), "limit" (lim it), etc. are affected. 

They are all keywords that are used in scripting languages, and they are much too specific and too deliberate to be an accident or user error. Strangely, keywords in missions don't always get mangled, but if they do, they consistently do throughout the entire mission description. I used to go over the descriptions of my missions and try to correct them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. It always angers me that this idiotic script hasn't been removed years ago, and implies (to me) that ED couldn't care less about their contributors. Very, very annoying, and completely pointless.  

Edited 21 hours ago by cfrag