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by dudehere 1730 days ago
It was necessary to crop the meta info that much to host for free. It's a feature, not a real limit.

The clickability problem is explained down this thread, it's the same as making an URL addressing a book. Not that nice. It's a technological peculiarity.

The naming may have a solution a bit later. It wasn't clear initially how to approach it.

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>It was necessary to crop the meta info that much to host for free. It's a feature, not a real limit.

Maybe have a step of indirection (an extra page) showing the metadata, with the ability to download directly still in the index should the metadata "page" not be fetchable.

>The clickability problem is explained down this thread, it's the same as making an URL addressing a book. Not that nice. It's a technological peculiarity.

It's good as long as libgen is aware. To be clear, it's good to be up at all, and it doesn't need to be perfect on the first iteration.

>The naming may have a solution a bit later. It wasn't clear initially how to approach it.

Showing a filename somewhere to allow downloaders to manually rename the file to a standard form would be a step in the right direction.

Yes, I think issuing multiple free opportunities might give a more complete solution without compromising the unmanned service.

My browsers actually do offer to rename the files. It might be that yours is set not to prompt.

Typo:

... using multiple free opportunities (accounts)...