One of the main issues is that mud repositories lack meta data. It's comparable to a mud list with 10000 muds that only lists the name, codebase, and telnet address.
Hence why someone would prefer to have a list of 100 'quality' muds because of the impossible task to view all content.
Adding more searchable meta data might be an interesting solution though. That way someone can search for a codebase that has olc, mccp, player accounts, and 50+ areas.
Thanks guys. I'm almost tempted to add more content. ;-)
Scandum said:
One of the main issues is that mud repositories lack meta data.
Well there is meta data here for many files on Mudbytes. Before I took the site offline back in September I was testing a web app which mirrored the contents of the ftp server and contained the information in my ServerTemplate. The content could be editted by any user, and included user created tags (like that used at del.icio.us). Of course the problem with all meta data is that is requires some dedicated meta people to enter and maintain it.
Brinson said:
With a nonexclusive repository the theory of "quality over quanitity" doesn't really hold up…
My purpose for collecting it was to insure it doesn't disappear from the net, so going for quantity. And after all 90% of mud code was written by amateur programmers at the high school or college level. It's often their first feeble attempts at programming, so quality is a rather rare feature.
Well there is meta data here for many files on Mudbytes. Before I took the site offline back in September I was testing a web app which mirrored the contents of the ftp server and contained the information in my ServerTemplate. The content could be editted by any user, and included user created tags (like that used at del.icio.us). Of course the problem with all meta data is that is requires some dedicated meta people to enter and maintain it.
That's still rather basic. I had a much more detailed system in mind more akin to how TMC works. A different set of meta data would be required for servers, and snippets, but that shouldn't be a big issue.
TheSourcery - A wiki for mud developers
TheSourcery Ftp Mud Code Archive - 2 gigabytes of mud source code
TeensyMud - The home of TeensyMud (forum, wiki and repository)
Enjoy!
Tyche