GarrysMod.org is officially dead. - Garry's Mod

Wait, this means we can start over. We'll make it better, with [del]blackjack and hookers[/del] more quality content!

I thought Garry made a torrent awhile back, which was around 29-30 gig?

[QUOTE=windows098;46638395]I thought Garry made a torrent awhile back, which was around 29-30 gig?[/QUOTE] That was the toybox.

I made an archive of Jason278's model ports (not hexes) in case something awful like this happened: [URL="https://app.box.com/jason278-archive"]here she be.[/URL] And let's hope that whoever wiped the website got punched in the dick with a P45.

In another thread it was suggested that only the website's database was cleared but the files still exist, if this is true why not let the community download the files and create new pages for them the best we can do that we don't lose everything.

Workshop is better times a million billion of course that old site had stuff dating back to even gmod9, specifically usable stuff outside of the old stuff the site was useless

rest in peace my mapping career starter i still remember when garrysmod.org was free for all and you didn't need to own the game to download stuff

wow are you serious

I got something like half a gig of addons I downloaded years ago here but that's it folks.

[QUOTE=J!NX;46638733] outside of the old stuff the site was useless[/QUOTE] Thats like saying "Outside of uploaded content, Workshop is useless"

[QUOTE=Exho;46638976]Thats like saying "Outside of uploaded content, Workshop is useless"[/QUOTE] that's a pretty foolish thing to say. The difference is that workshop is functionally better. garrysmod.org doesn't automatically install your addons and constantly keep them up to date not only that but you can use workshop IN GMOD as well as have everything installed pretty much as fast as your internet as good if you're looking for an update on a script, you're fucked if you have a lot and don't have workshop, because you have to manually update it or use a secondary program (tortuise sven, which is great but workshop is greater) with workshop you click a button and have it, and it's super easy to remove addons. Any idiot can use it, it's really simple. with garrysmod.org you have to download it, and install everything manually and also that site was a mess anyways. Sometimes you can't tell what version a script works with. Obviously with maps that isn't an issue though. outside of backup content that doesn't exist on workshop, yes, garrysmod.org IS useless.

well gmod used amazon aws so all the content still exists unless yall deleted that too

If the files are still there but just the metadata has gone we can simply write a program that goes through all zip files and extracts info.txt files from addons and gamemodes. For other things we can easily write scripts to determine the kind of content. There is really nothing to it and it would be a [b]huge[/b] waste to throw away the files too. A lot of the metadata can be rebuild.

It's just a huge shame that gmod.org disappeared instantly and without a warning... It's also a great loss of files that could have been re uploaded in the workshop... *go cry in the corner*

[QUOTE=J!NX;46638990]that's a pretty foolish thing to say. The difference is that workshop is functionally better. garrysmod.org doesn't automatically install your addons and constantly keep them up to date not only that but you can use workshop IN GMOD as well as have everything installed pretty much as fast as your internet as good if you're looking for an update on a script, you're fucked if you have a lot and don't have workshop, because you have to manually update it or use a secondary program (tortuise sven, which is great but workshop is greater) with workshop you click a button and have it, and it's super easy to remove addons. Any idiot can use it, it's really simple. with garrysmod.org you have to download it, and install everything manually and also that site was a mess anyways. Sometimes you can't tell what version a script works with. Obviously with maps that isn't an issue though. outside of backup content that doesn't exist on workshop, yes, garrysmod.org IS useless.[/QUOTE] workshop is hardly usable however. i end up downloading worthless shit off of shit servers i jump around on, bound to leave because i don't like clogging my system with content. and what happens? it continues downloading unless i restart the game! not to mention searching on steam is an atrocity and the majority of workshop content is piss useless i would prefer downloading manually, as long as the server says what I need to download.

[QUOTE=lNloruzenchi;46639930]workshop is hardly usable however. i end up downloading worthless shit off of shit servers i jump around on, bound to leave because i don't like clogging my system with content. and what happens? it continues downloading unless i restart the game! not to mention searching on steam is an atrocity and the majority of workshop content is piss useless i would prefer downloading manually, as long as the server says what I need to download.[/QUOTE] then don't do it through steam? you can get it all on a browser

[QUOTE=maurits150;46639172]If the files are still there but just the metadata has gone we can simply write a program that goes through all zip files and extracts info.txt files from addons and gamemodes. For other things we can easily write scripts to determine the kind of content. There is really nothing to it and it would be a [b]huge[/b] waste to throw away the files too. A lot of the metadata can be rebuild.[/QUOTE] I brought forward the idea of a community driven website hosted on my storage servers where people could re-index files from exploring their contents, I've been told that the files were also lost in the wipe so it's a no-go sadly.

[QUOTE=J!NX;46639963]then don't do it through steam? you can get it all on a browser[/QUOTE] ...what was the point of the thread again? discussing the downtime of a website to download garry's mod addons? still doesn't stop servers from uploading content onto you.

[QUOTE=lNloruzenchi;46639978]...what was the point of the thread again? discussing the downtime of a website to download garry's mod addons? still doesn't stop servers from uploading content onto you.[/QUOTE] if it's so out of topic then what is the point of pointing all that out to me? literally the point of the thread is "It's dead stop making threads about it", I'm simply stating that it shouldn't be that surprising because there are better options out there. Workshop is extremely easy to use. People talk about how "Shit" the steam client is and how it's "literally unusable" but it's extremely easy to use and not nearly as awful as they make it out to be not only that but workshop items actually work and is generally up to date. I don't see how it's useless either, I have TONS of maps and addons and I don't have to manually reinstall every single one every reinstall. I don't really see why people are so surprised it went down. Ever since the workshop was a thing it became useless except for the old content having been backed up through it. It should have been backed up to public, though. that and just because you like manually installing everything doesn't mean everyone else wants to deal with such tedious work. Addon doesn't work? unsubscribe, done. [editline]4th December 2014[/editline] that and, installing the same addons I have on the workshop using garrysmod.org would take way longer

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[QUOTE=J!NX;46638733]Workshop is better times a million billion of course that old site had stuff dating back to even gmod9, specifically usable stuff outside of the old stuff the site was useless[/QUOTE] It doesn't matter if workshop is "better". There is a lot of content on garrysmod.org that doesn't exist on the workshop. Yes, some of the lua is old. There is still a portion of it that is new, and an even larger portion of the website that doesn't even need lua, E.g. Models, maps, dupes, etc. EDIT: also your opinion of workshop vs garrysmod.org and which is better is irrelevant. There is still content there that people want.

[QUOTE=Silentfood;46639967]I brought forward the idea of a community driven website hosted on my storage servers where people could re-index files from exploring their contents, I've been told that the files were also lost in the wipe so it's a no-go sadly.[/QUOTE] Then the files were deleted intentionally post-accident.

[QUOTE=Pandaman09;46640227]It doesn't matter if workshop is "better". There is a lot of content on garrysmod.org that doesn't exist on the workshop. Yes, some of the lua is old. There is still a portion of it that is new, and an even larger portion of the website that doesn't even need lua, E.g. Models, maps, dupes, etc. EDIT: also your opinion of workshop vs garrysmod.org and which is better is irrelevant. There is still content there that people want.[/QUOTE] "of course that old site had stuff dating back to even gmod9, specifically usable stuff" I guess I worded it bad, but note that i wasn't talking about content anyways, I was talking about its functionality as a content hub

I'm actually gonna miss that place :( I hope there's a way to retrieve the files and make some kind of an archive out of it

[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;46641593]workshop is shit jinx, its so unusable and content is even harder to find than on gmod.org - idk why you'd even consider it better.[/QUOTE] -You have to redownload stuff if a server is using resource.AddWorkshop, even if you've already subscribed before -Workshop stuff seems to want to remount itself or do some shit whenever the map changes, but FastDL will never bother you again unless you've messed something up -Server Content Packs flow into every category -Saves and Dupes in general -Server Owners have a habit of sending you whole addons even if only one or two things are needed -Having to launch up gmod, extract a .gma and then transfer over to your server is much more annoying than just downloading a .zip -Some people enjoy fixing up old gmod stuff or use it as inspiration, myself included -Some stuff can't be found elsewhere as people who made things for garrysmod.org are no longer in the community

So, is it confirmed that all the files ever uploaded onto garrysmod.org are permanently gone or are they still there but nothing to point us to them?

Damn, I guess you can say the good times are gone now

[QUOTE=J!NX;46638990]that's a pretty foolish thing to say. The difference is that workshop is functionally better. garrysmod.org doesn't automatically install your addons and constantly keep them up to date not only that but you can use workshop IN GMOD as well as have everything installed pretty much as fast as your internet as good if you're looking for an update on a script, you're fucked if you have a lot and don't have workshop, because you have to manually update it or use a secondary program (tortuise sven, which is great but workshop is greater) with workshop you click a button and have it, and it's super easy to remove addons. Any idiot can use it, it's really simple. with garrysmod.org you have to download it, and install everything manually and also that site was a mess anyways. Sometimes you can't tell what version a script works with. Obviously with maps that isn't an issue though. outside of backup content that doesn't exist on workshop, yes, garrysmod.org IS useless.[/QUOTE] Gmod.org's use was not as an addon repository. Its use was as an archive, a history of the game so to speak. A place where those of us who've played it for yonks could go to reminisce fondly on those oldies but goodies, where we could dredge them up and coax life back into their withered corpses if we so chose. A lot of that stuff more or less works as-is, too, though anything relying on scripts tends to. Heh. Not work. It had a valid place on the internet, not in its original purpose, but as a digital museum to the thousands upon thousands of reasons why Garry's Mod still gets updates to this day. Oh, and the Workshop isn't perfect either. I like to browse certain types of addons, namely building props and large maps conducive to the enjoyment of cars, tanks and such, yet it is all but impossible to do this. The Workshop lacks categories entirely, relies solely on users tagging content, and that means a search for 'driving map' ends up returning results for furry playermodels, old Spacebuild dupes that don't even work, and the odd car SEnt(Which, while well modelled, are obsolete for me as I can build better performing cars from scratch these days). IF we had categories I'd be able to use the search term 'driving', but only in the map category, and that would filter out sooooo much of the flotsam that currently clogs search results. I will concede that Gmod.org wasn't any better for that at time of closing, but when it was the primary means of getting addons for Gmod it had the ability to do exactly that.

[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;46641593]workshop is shit jinx, its so unusable and content is even harder to find than on gmod.org - idk why you'd even consider it better.[/QUOTE] of course, contents a lot harder to find, but I find it better because I don't have to back everything up / find it again come a reinstall, or have to manually install it that's not to say opening a zip is hard, that is so simple that I'm actually blown away that people out there don't know how to do it. It's just easier to work with since I never have to go back and re-search anything anyways. I found what I need and it's over.

[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;46642689]the database was wiped, not the files.[/QUOTE] Robotboy told me that the server itself was wiped, not just the database.