Quote Originally Posted by effep View Post
I really have to note that linking to many other threads however is what makes alot of these posts become irrelevant.
If the full explanation and walkthrough isnt in one single thread - then what happens (what has already happened) is the links you put in your post become dead, outdated, or moved and then the full explanation is no longer possible to get.
Basically every thread olipcs had written - although absolutely wonderful - fell into this hole. He didnt explain a big chunk of the process and instead inserted a link to a post that did - a link that is currently dead or removed - so there were gaping holes in all the explanations.
Perhaps you can even improve your post by removing all external links and simply making one post with all the actual info in it?
That would be a monument worth stickying at the very top and I'm sure also save many other people the same aggravation.

Anyway thank you so much for taking your time to help.
Yeah, this is an issue with old threads. This one is three years old and since it was made there has been at least 1 forum migration and several wiki rollbacks. I don't even recall the last time olpics was around. Since no one has touched it since it as created, there's never been any corrections or even mention that there should be corrections.

Honestly, it's rather a huge undertaking to update old content like this. It took me 4 hours to write the response, it would take me at least 2 days to write out an actual guide. Probably longer in this case, since I don't use FTL and would need to rewrite my script and all my macros in order to test. Since there's not a lot of new people interested in HotKeyNet, it's kind of hard to invest that much time in keeping the old guides up to date or trying to figure out what people want to see rewritten.

So I tend to opt for answering questions when they are asked and squirreling away interesting bits to put under the HKN section in the Newb's Guide Vol. 1 or sometimes on my site or in my blog here, though I haven't really done anything on the last two in ages.

Though I'm sure Lax wouldn't mind if I turned some of these mile-long posts into blog entries, lol.