Maybe it could be useful to update the Forum to the latest version of phpBB (currently 3.0.11) ?

This is different from #51.

It should have a few gameplay videos (not trailers imo) and a few choice screenshots. Also links to youtube channels / playlists.

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They will clutter up http://openra.res0l.net/assets/downloads/ otherwise.

Hey guys,
I'm XIaoxing Ye, a member of AOSC.
Here, I want to tell you that we have added some more mirrors, which obviously, contain OpenRA.
List are here:

FIrst of all, our main server is already located in Taiwan, China. So almost all areas in the world should enjoy a fast speed.
http://(repo,mirror).anthonos.org

MaxCDN(it shuted down before due to hardware fault): http://mirror.oss.maxcdn.com/anthonos/openra/

NLUUG
http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/anthon/
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/anthon/

Tsukuba WIDE Public Mirror (Japan)
http://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/anthon
rsync://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/anthon .

Fastly
http://cdn.mirror.anthonos.org/openra/
(it is a CDN service, so any file update may delay.. and you can contact me to have it updated on fastly website.)

USTC, China
http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/anthon/openra/

Also, Please remove
http://ftp.ubuntu-tw.org/mirror/anthonos/
for it has merged into repo.anthonos.org.

And please update all 6 files ( OpenRAWeb / content / packages ) for all mirrors do provide them.

Went through http://openra.res0l.net/statistics/awstats.openra.res0l.net.errors404.html to find broken links and it turns out http://openra.res0l.net/news/rss is gone now and some people subscribed to it.

Similiar to what we already have in the client. Maybe with little country flags.

Hello.

I suggest to use HHVM instead of vanilla PHP. It really gives acceleration in ~5 times in a lot of tasks. I'm using it in production, already.

Why now? Because it's need to know how to write the code (for HHVM or for vanilla PHP).

I think Facebook and Twitter buttons should be featured somewhere on the website.

Even if many of us don't use facebook or twitter, most people nowadays like these social websites (and probably OpenRA fans/players).

For the logos, these SVG images could be used:
facebook: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_Logo_Mini.svg
twitter: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twitter_Logo_Mini.svg

Their license are "Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication". :-)

The http://openra.res0l.net/news/ DISQUS comments for http://openra.res0l.net/news/release-20130915/ and http://openra.res0l.net/news/release-20130514/ are identical.

http://openra.res0l.net/assets/downloads/windows/ and friends are unreadable. We had a HTML list in place before which highlighted the latest and sorted them by release and playtest sections.

Blockers for migrating to http://pages.github.com are

• #107
• OpenRA/OpenRA#4843

http://openra.net/ directs to a Plesk Web Server's Default Page, not http://openra.res0l.net/

I think the upcoming content site : http://resource.openra.net will need some promotion.

It could be interesting (to promote it when it will be finished), to add a new paragraph in http://openra.res0l.net/community/ about this new content site (with a short description of what the site is, why uploading maps there, etc..).

It's a bit sad to notice that even http://content.open-ra.org/ doesn't currently appear anywhere on http://openra.res0l.net/ . I think http://openra.res0l.net/community/ would be a good place to add a paragraph about it.

As discussed #13, #77 and OpenRA/OpenRA#3747 we probably want something more professional an failsafe than get-dependency.php now that the project is getting more attention.

Sorry for my paranoia, but…

It's very unpleasantly to download programs without any signatures over plain HTTP (e.g. [1], [2], [3]). High probability of MitM-attack.

[1] http://openra.res0l.net/assets/downloads/linux/deb/openra_release.20130915_all.deb
[2] http://openra.res0l.net/assets/downloads/source/release-20130915.tar.gz
[3] http://www.desura.com/gamedownloads/get/5992/0bbedeb666c77689b2ac9242369fd10c/fbead13203717c7634603cfd8eb2636d

Is it possible to provide signatures of every package to authenticate maintainer or even though provide SSL/TLS for HTTP with valid certificate to authenticate openra.res0l.net?

We didn't go ahead with the move to gh releases, so the link should point to http://openra.res0l.net/assets/downloads/ instead.

The screenshots on the main page are tiny! They are actually 500x300 but scaled down.

Here's how it would look with larger screenshots and a new header font:

There isn't any donation link on the website. It could be better to put a link to the openRA page on Bountysource so that people have a way of financially contributing to the project.

https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/36085-openra

http://i.imgur.com/haHnPaV.png

Here is a potential CSS theme for the forum: http://pastebin.com/8FQBwCPm. We had trouble testing it ourself when pasting the t93.css into http://www.sleipnirstuff.com/forum/ucp.php?i=7&mode=stylesheets&u=2851 because it never recognized the changes in the theme selector.

On this page: http://openra.res0l.net/games/

Would it be possible to colorize the old OpenRA clients ?

For example:

• green for the current Playtest,
• orange for the latest Release
• and red for older ones

• http://openra.res0l.net/download/win
• http://openra.res0l.net/download/linux/deb/ (@xaionaro depends on it)
• http://openra.res0l.net/download/linux/rpm
• http://openra.res0l.net/download/linux/arch
• http://openra.res0l.net/download/osx

Currently http://openra.res0l.net/get-dependency.php?file= occasionally fails which aborts the NSIS Windows installer and disrupts the first-start experience of the clients. It is the main reason for user frustration resulting in poor reviews.

Is it possible to use something more robust like http://www.mirrorbrain.org/?

We have packages in the official repositories of more than one linux distro. The blurb for each of these platforms should be updated with the commands required for installation.

The blurb should include a notice that these are maintained by a third party and may be out of date (desura too) - see #18 for more discussion.

http://openra.res0l.net/download/linux/deb/release/latest etc. don't work anymore

It can give a short history of the project and outline the main philosophical and gameplay differences from the original game (with screenshots and/or videos as applicable).

Some points to include:

• By fans, for fans.
• Natively cross-platform.
• OpenRA != Open Red Alert - not a 1:1 recreation.
• Designed to be modder friendly.
• Brings improvements from later games back to the originals (tech structures, queuing multiple actors / build queues, etc).

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In the Getting Help section the emblem of Red Cross is shown. I think either the religion neutral Red Crystal, adopted in 2006, or the logo with both red cross and red crescent of IFRC should be shown.

Broken forums link on this page: http://openra.res0l.net/get-involved/

"Our forum" should redirect to http://www.sleipnirstuff.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=80

Page http://openra.res0l.net/news/release-20130915/

The 'optimized changelog' link leads to a dead page

I can imagine a lot of users just want to join IRC chan fast, or post some stuff on the forum without searching for the link. And since we want the community to grow this would help.

I suggest: On the "get-involved" page, under "Getting in Touch", buttons would help. Like those very nice looking OS bottons in the download section. Bottons for IRC, the Forum, etc. can help to identify the links. Or (maybe) even make it like on the old page. Forum link in the top frame besides "get-involved".

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There are always random complaints via ModDB and IRC about this. I can personally confirm it. Might be related to modern anti-spam techniques like greylisting as using http://www.trashmail.de/ to workaround "solved" it for me. I also registered quite a lot of Matt usernames at http://www.sleipnirstuff.com/forum/memberlist.php before I noticed.

http://openra.res0l.net/ links to Home at the "ALSO ON OPENRA" section below the DISQUS comment box. Already removed the trusted domains at http://openra.disqus.com/admin/settings/?p=advanced (renable if you want to test with nanoc view), but it does not seem to help. Reported by @ihptru via IRC.

It would be nice to have openra.net/changelog as a redirect to the wiki/Changelog.

Suggested by erlehmann from IRC:

From 619e17898fc73f8293fe08921c9160705681e46f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:47:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] + SHA1 checksums for download page

---
 lib/openra.rb | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/openra.rb b/lib/openra.rb
index 5740892..aaa5717 100644
--- a/lib/openra.rb
+++ b/lib/openra.rb
@@ -44,17 +44,26 @@ def package_name(platform, tag)
     end
 end

+def generate_url_sha1sum(url)
+  require 'digest'
+  require 'net/http'
+  response = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url))
+  Digest::SHA1.hexdigest response
+end
+
 def generate_download_button(platform, github_id, tag, sizes)
   if github_id == "" then
     "<span>No playtest available<br />(release is newer)</span>"
   elsif platform == "source"
     url = DOWNLOAD_GITHUB_BASE_PATH + "archive/#{tag}.tar.gz"
-    sprintf('<a href="%s" title=\"Download %s">Download %s<br />(source package)</a>', url, tag, tag)
+    sha1sum = generate_url_sha1sum url
+    sprintf('<a href="%s" title=\"Download %s">Download %s<br />(source package)<br />SHA1: %s</a>', url, tag, tag, sha1sum)
   else
     package = package_name(platform, tag)
     url = DOWNLOAD_GITHUB_BASE_PATH + "releases/download/" + tag + '/' + package
+    sha1sum = generate_url_sha1sum url
     size = sizes.key?(package) ? sprintf("(%.2f MB)", sizes[package] / 1048576.0) : "(size unknown)"
-    sprintf('<a href="%s" title="Download %s">Download %s<br />%s</a>', url, tag, tag, size)
+    sprintf('<a href="%s" title="Download %s">Download %s<br />%s<br />SHA1: %s</a>', url, tag, tag, size, sha1sum)
   end
 end

--
2.1.3

via OpenRA/OpenRA#3363

People think the OpenRA project is dead and unmaintained because the website is never updated. The opposite is the case. To help reduce redundant efforts we could simply embed http://rss.moddb.com/games/openra/news/feed/rss.xml

for Travis and quick checks if the website builds locally.

Original used an image for the download button for the detected platform page. Either need an image or use css for a button like thing

e.g. host a game using a map with html in its title and navigate to http://www.openra.net/games/
This is a pretty major security issue.

Anytime!
Anywhere
Push B and Crash.

Exception of type System.InvalidOperationException: Cursor does not have a sequence powerdown-blocked
at OpenRA.Graphics.CursorProvider.GetCursorSequence(String cursor)
at OpenRA.Graphics.Viewport.DrawRegions(WorldRenderer wr, IInputHandler inputHandler)
at OpenRA.Game.Tick(OrderManager orderManager, Viewport viewPort)
at OpenRA.Game.Run()
at OpenRA.Program.Run(String[] args)
at OpenRA.Program.Main(String[] args)