Channel membership prevents access to my own library! in BYOND Discussion

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Mar 8 2005, 6:18 am
I can't access my own BYONDscape libraries. It seems my membership has lapsed. (Thank goodness I submitted fresh content to extend it for a bit.)

Since I can't work on my site's CGI interface without ProcessHTML I figured I would turn off the "exclusive download" checkbox, download it, then set it again with no one the wiser. The hub interface won't let me. Every time I uncheck the exclusive download option and submit, I get the message "Choose channel member features: exclusive downloading has been set by default." Is that a bug or intentional?

It would be very nice if the creator of a library could download his or her own work without removing it from the channel. :)
#1 Mar 8 2005, 7:48 am
Maybe you could submit it to your own channel. It's probably tripping out because of the settings for BYONDscape's channel are dicatating it's download options.

~X
#2 Mar 8 2005, 9:04 am
Shadowdarke wrote:
Since I can't work on my site's CGI interface without ProcessHTML I figured I would turn off the "exclusive download" checkbox, download it, then set it again with no one the wiser. The hub interface won't let me. Every time I uncheck the exclusive download option and submit, I get the message "Choose channel member features: exclusive downloading has been set by default." Is that a bug or intentional?

Probably my fault, but I'm so long away from that code that Mike gets the joy of figuring it out!
#3 Mar 8 2005, 11:04 am
I've gone ahead and extended your membership, if that helps any!
#4 Mar 8 2005, 12:27 pm
Shadowdarke wrote:
I figured I would turn off the "exclusive download" checkbox, download it, then set it again with no one the wiser. The hub interface won't let me. Every time I uncheck the exclusive download option and submit, I get the message "Choose channel member features: exclusive downloading has been set by default." Is that a bug or intentional?

It's intentional. I believe the reasoning was that it doesn't make sense to set a non-free distribution type (channel membership in this case) if you aren't tying one or more subscription features to that distribution. For channel membership, you have these choices for subscription features:

  • only subscribers can download from hub
  • player rankings
  • hubfiles

    If none are set, then the server "helpfully" sets the first one by default. You could have gotten around this in couple of ways:

  • Set one of the other features
  • Add yourself as a subscriber to your hub entry

    It would be very nice if the creator of a library could download his or her own work without removing it from the channel. :)

    Yeah, that makes sense. Done!
#5 Mar 8 2005, 2:08 pm
In response to Mike H (#4)
I still don't understand why, when doing channel membership, it always checks "Only subscribers can download from hub", even though when non-subscribers tried, they were able to when I tried unchecking it and submitting, even though it defaulted to checked again.
#6 Mar 20 2005, 12:50 am
In response to Gughunter (#3)
Gughunter wrote:
I've gone ahead and extended your membership, if that helps any!
<cough>
Uhhh....ya, I have this same problem. >_>

Better extend my membership as well!
</cough>
#7 Mar 20 2005, 5:12 am
In response to Teh Governator (#6)
Teh Governator wrote:
Gughunter wrote:
I've gone ahead and extended your membership, if that helps any!
<cough>
Uhhh....ya, I have this same problem. >_>

Better extend my membership as well!
</cough>

Just to set the record straight, my sd_tree library was released the same day on BYONDscape. Guy was just letting me know he'd extended my access before he announced the lib on the BYONDscape site. :p