Searching the Dump?

[Sheizenhammer]

Quick, random question I can't find the answer to:

Is there any way to search for stuff people have uploaded to the dumping grounds? Google Advanced doesn't want to co-operate with me this time.

Or maybe I'm doing it wrong. We'll see.

[Fro]

That would be a very bad idea in my opinion. Since you can download things from people's dump you would have so many stolen submissions from people putting up flashes that aren't finished. Art pieces would be stolen the same way.

There isn't an easy way that I know of and I'm pretty sure that's for obvious reasons.

[Ismael92]

At 3/22/10 10:11 AM, Fro wrote: There isn't an easy way that I know of and I'm pretty sure that's for obvious reasons.

That's right, because the Dump is supposed to be used to share things with specific people without anyone else being able to see it / steal it. However, Tom said that there's a "Public / Hidden" option that wasn't included in the end, so that you can select which of your Dump submissions are public to everyone. (Source)

[thenewbies]

There might be some metadata in your dumping's page that prevents Google from trying to save your dump into its database. Like this, no one can have access to your dump and steal your stuff. It also makes sure that the only time people have access to your dump is if you give them a link.

[Sheizenhammer]

Ahh... shit, I completely forgot about the 'download' button. Suppose it's for the best that there isn't an easy way to go through it then.

Well, thanks anyway.

[4urentertainment]

The *whole* point of dumping grounds is to enable users to privately upload their files and share it with collaborators. They don't want random people seeing it. Even if the download button was not there. It'd still be pretty easy to take the swf and decompile it.