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[Chapo]

English Translation below


Je ne pouvais pas passer à coté de cet événement majeur dans la vie de 17's Buddies sans vous le faire partager:

Ce soir (*), 17's Buddies vient de passer le cap symbolique de 50000 maps uniques, confortant notre position de numéro 1 mondial en nombre de maps!

C'est grâce à votre travail et à votre fidélité à tous que nous en somme rendu là et je tenais donc à vous dire un grand merci !


(*) Doktor vient de nous uploader plus de 1500 maps kz/bhop avec screens (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/felicitation.gif)

I could not to miss this major event in the lives of 17's Buddies without sharing this with you:

Tonight, 17's Buddies just passed the symbolic number of 50 000 unique maps consolidating our position as world No. 1 in number of maps!

It is with your work and your loyalty to all that we basically went there and so I wanted to say a big thank you!


(*) Doktor has just uploaded over 1500 maps kz / bhop with screens this evening. (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/bravo.gif)

[Arkshine]

I'm not with the staff but I would like to answer you.

Why "too bad" ? The purpose of this site is to gather as many maps as possible, so it's easy to search and you have tools you don't have on others sites. I don't see the problem, like google which indexes sites, this site indexes maps. What's wrong ?
Almost all the sites which provide a map database have maps from others sites too.
You talk about asking the permission, that's just not possible to ask each mapper. You will encounter many issues. It's a free service which help to promote many unknown maps. The map is not altered or something. It's duplicated. I would like to see a mapper not happy to have his map used by many people because indexed on this site.

Knowing such files are public and original author/comment are respected, it contributes to promote the map, for the sake of sharing and having a centralized place for people searching a new map. I see nothing where it could hurt. By uploading a map on internet you authorize anyone to have it. Once a server has the map, many players will share it with another players. So, asking the permission is pointless.

I don't know if Chapo does that, but I would not be against to send an email, if found in a .txt or something, to the author telling him his map has been added automatically on this site, and if he wants to remove it, feel free to ask.