Simon Woods Posted January 6, 2017 Posted January 6, 2017 Thanks for making this. I have some ongoing plans that would make use of Downloads and if they come through I am definitely going to purchase this to make it a robust feature.
CinemaVision Posted January 9, 2017 Author Posted January 9, 2017 New update, and thanks to @Joel R for spreading the word! We're still having trouble with hooking into Amazon. The only way we've been able to engineer it to work is to have it download the files to your web server first, and then package them for download. We can't get Amazon to allow us to archive on the fly, which sucks. We're going to keep plugging at that. We're pretty well finished with the newest release, and have added one very big feature since the last update that we're polishing now. Advanced Downloads now includes a fully featured queuing system. Full disclosure, the two sites that we have this installed on right now do a lot of download traffic. Terabytes a month on average. With Advanced Downloads enabled, we ran through most of our average bandwidth in 8 days. Advanced Downloads used up all of our servers' resources because hundreds of users were using it at once. To combat that issue, and make Advanced Downloads a bit cooler, we built the queuing system, which you'll be able to configure and monitor from the ACP. You'll be able to set a queue size limit, and a queue concurrent downloads. If files are sized above the size limit, or Advanced Downloads is already processing files over that size limit, the requested file will be queued up and when ready, an email will be sent to the user with a link to their file.
Janyour Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Hello @CinemaVision can you tell us more about the new version ?
CinemaVision Posted January 10, 2017 Author Posted January 10, 2017 56 minutes ago, Janyour said: Hello @CinemaVision can you tell us more about the new version ? Sure can, what do you want to know? Including the features in the new version, Advanced Downloads has a lot to offer. Gives users the ability to group multiple files in a download and stream them to the user as a compressed archive on-the-fly with no additional storage requirements Apply the Advanced Downloads functionality to specific categories in downloads, gallery albums, and even to specific forums Administrators can choose to include or exclude those categories and forums selected, which makes configuration painless Specify groups that will be able to use Advanced Download functionality to download files in supported applications Hide Advanced Downloads functionality from users without access, or show them a customizable message to help drive site membership Sorting options and layout options are available for downloads and forum attachments including two forum attachment styles, icons for recognized attachments, and thumbnails for image attachments New menu options and styles are available for downloads including a collapsible menu available in two different styles New download category layout options for empty categories User statistics for the Advanced Downloads application which includes daily, weekly and monthly statistics as well as statistics by user A configurable download queue system which emails users when their download is processed if all available threads are being used by other users, to prevent overloading your server Administrative tools are included which allow administrators to monitor and maintain Temporary Files, Current Downloads and Queued Downloads if the application hiccups and doesn't clean up after itself
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