Linguofreak
Well-known member
Hopefully Orbiter add-on makers will take a lesson from this and upload their Orbiter files to OrbitHangar, where they should be in the first place. This is the exact reason why Vash started linking to other sites on OH. If I'm a user, I don't want to have to hunt all over the internet for addons, especially when there's no reason at all to use AVSIM over OH. It requires a login to even access the files, it has more downtime, and (now we see) it is less secure.
Better yet, take a lesson from this and upload to *both*. Avsim isn't as secure as Orbithangar (or at least wasn't, that may change in the wake of all this), but it could happen to Orbithangar. Maybe not a hack per-se, maybe Vash dies (God forbid), and we don't have anyone to host for us anymore. Wouldn't it be nice to have it all backed up to Avsim? The very mistake Avsim made was putting all their eggs in one basket. The Orbiter community should make an effort not to do the same. Even if Avsim continues to be unreliable, it is another basket.