My old maps archive - Any interest?

[SkrungliosPunglios]

Hi everyone, how you all doing?

I have A BUNCH of maps from way back then that I found in an old external HD of mine.

I'm an old fart, from way back when this site used to be wc3sear.ch (2004?), I remember seeing Darky27 (he must be near his 60's now) uploading new maps like Circle Defense (it's still one of my favorite TDs of all time - beautifully done).

Would you guys be interested in it? If so, how would I go about posting them?
I don't want to accidently submit duplicates and idk what's the site policy on posting stuff that's not your own creations, but I think it would be good for archival purposes.

Cheers

 

[Retera]

This brings back a memory of someone asking me if I had a particular map 3 or 4 years ago that I did not seem to have. I wonder if you would have it. If only I could remember the map or the person. I think it was a cinematic map made by someone famous.

Do you have an estimate on the total file size of maps you have here? I think my old WC3 folder in the backups was about 20GB so I never investigated dumping it publicly. There's also a high risk of leaking peoples' personal information and maps they did not mean to publish. Maybe for you, that's not an issue?

If you're OK with posting them publicly, if I were you I would be tempted to feed them to an AI and ask it to create a tool to organize them or something. Maybe that's dumb but if it worked it would be easier than human organization.

 

[Kyrbi0]

You can absolutely just make a thread & dump them there, if you don't want to worry about ascertaining authorship or physically uploading them or dupes. I don't know that I have any personal interest, but I'm always into archival of long-lost media.

 

[Fleck]

I'm interested but my hard drive is running out of space though but yes, I agree with uploading it for posterity.