The truly interesting thing about that, as you know, is that I did that first set of changes to fix the name issue on that tool. But wait, people say, you're not affiliated with Weasyl.. you're not a Weasyl dev? No, I'm not, but they _DO_ have their external tools in a nice Github Repo, which I forked, and then made the changes and issued Pull Requests. I also found another issue that I took care of as well.
So not only did they get it fixed VERY QUICKLY, but it was fixed BY THE VERY COMMUNITY THAT WANTS TO HELP ANY / MANY FURRY SITES SORT THEIR STUFF OUT.
That's the telling thing. It was an open source fix. When we look at projects regarding FA, we're told by Yak and others that we are "hacking", even for things that aren't touching the server any more than a standard user. When we talk to Weasyl, we're told , "Hey, go for it! Here's our Github, here's a project listing on our website, here's some help, do you want an API? What do you want in an API? We'd love to get help on that, would you like to join our dev channel and hang out and talk to us?"
One of these methodologies will sustain a site a lot better than another.
The truly interesting thing about that, as you know, is that I did that first set of changes to fix the name issue on that tool. But wait, people say, you're not affiliated with Weasyl.. you're not a Weasyl dev? No, I'm not, but they _DO_ have their external tools in a nice Github Repo, which I forked, and then made the changes and issued Pull Requests. I also found another issue that I took care of as well.
So not only did they get it fixed VERY QUICKLY, but it was fixed BY THE VERY COMMUNITY THAT WANTS TO HELP ANY / MANY FURRY SITES SORT THEIR STUFF OUT.
That's the telling thing. It was an open source fix. When we look at projects regarding FA, we're told by Yak and others that we are "hacking", even for things that aren't touching the server any more than a standard user. When we talk to Weasyl, we're told , "Hey, go for it! Here's our Github, here's a project listing on our website, here's some help, do you want an API? What do you want in an API? We'd love to get help on that, would you like to join our dev channel and hang out and talk to us?"
One of these methodologies will sustain a site a lot better than another.