Census of Active FF 1.0 Filter Authors

Hi guys and gals,

With FF 4.0 in active development, we don't have much resources for older versions. In particular, we are somewhat reluctant to update FF 1.0 so that it would conform to new filter submission requirements that are to be introduced in 4.0.

To my (personal) surprise Jffe certain filter authors still submit filters from the first version. So, my questions are:

- how many conservatives are there in the active community?
- would it be troublesome for you to switch to 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0?
- would you be willing to do a little bit of extra editing in 1.0 because certain component combinations will no longer be accepted by the server?

FYI: users with FF 1.0 constitute a single-digit percentage of our library server traffic.

GMM, is this about the situation where the server-side Problemator rejects filters submitted from versions prior to 4.0 due to the IntSlider range warning that was introduced with the new IntSlider?

In any case, a better way to figure this out would be via an SQL query to the filter database, something along the lines of: SHOW ME ALL FILTERS WHERE SUBMISSION DATE IS WITHIN RECENT 3 MONTHS AND VERSION IS LESS THAN 4.0.

(Or, if the version data isn't available as a field, and it should be, use a full-text search in filter's XML code: "... AND FFXML CONTAINS VERSION TAGS FOR FILTERFORGE V1 OR V2 OR V3.")

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is this about the situation where the server-side Problemator rejects filters

Yes.

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In any case, a better way to figure this out would be via an SQL query

Done that, I know for sure there are recent filters submitted from 1.0 — and I'd like to know the community response for that.

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that is a great pity to keep using FF 1.0, I understand that some people maybe can´t pay the upgrade

The strange thing is that certain FF 1.0 authors have enough HU filters to buy themselves lifetime upgrades for the next several lives.

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GMM The strange thing is that certain FF 1.0 authors have enough HU filters to buy themselves lifetime upgrades for the next several lives.

then if it is NOT a problem of paying the upgrade in this cases that you mention, HOW is possible that they do not upgrade and KEEP using FF 1.0?

Perhaps instead of asking it here in the forum, if you know who they are, FF customer support could contact them as politely ask about their reasons and know more about this mistery.