Just something I would like all mod authors to think about.

How often have you went to download something that had an obscure file name that may or may not be decipherable in relation to the mod name as posted? How often have you downloaded a patch for something named just patch? How often have you ran into a readme named just readme? How often do you look at an esp file and wonder what it is for due to it's odd file name, or what version it is? It is no longer 1990. We can have longer filenames now. If someone releases something named My Awesome Mod 1.0, how about naming the zip file My Awesome Mod v10.zip or My_Awesome_Mod_v10.zip? How about naming the readme My Awesome Mod v10 ReadMe.txt? If you release a compatibility patch for your mod to some other mod, or if you make a compatibility patch to some other mod not yours just to be nice/helpful, How about naming it Mod1 Mod2 Compatability patch.7z or Mymod Hismod Compatability patch.7z? Months down the road when someone goes looking in their hugemongous download folder, someothermod compatibilty.rar do not tell the whole story of what is in that rar file, nor what it does. Also naming your rar file myawesomemod.rar do not make it easily searchable by keywords. You could not do a search of the download folder on awesome and expect to find your mod. Naming it my awesome mod.rar or my_awesome_mod.rar DO make it easily searchable by the keyword awesome. I tend to rename over 80% of the zip files I download and I bet I am not alone.

Here are some examples of things I have gotten Win7 to swallow as filenames:

Advent Children Clouds Sword_second_Relfecting_with_sword_breaks_and_one_vs_twohanded(esp only).7z
Ambient_Town_Sounds_Morrowind_v14.rar
Ambient_Town_Sounds_Morrowind_v14_01_Like a few other characteristic places, Suran's House of Earthly Delights received a special sound treatment.jpg
Building_Up_Uviriths_Grave_v11.zip
Building_Up_Uviriths_Grave_v11_05Some faction buildings, The Fighter's Guild Training Pit (with working dummy), Fast Eddie's Manor, Flintmoth Legion Keep, and a Thief's Hideout.jpg
Building_Up_Uviriths_Grave_v11_06More faction buildings, The Tribunal Temple, Mage's guild outcast, Morag Tong Guild House, and Imperial Cult Shrine.jpg

Now I realize it is not likely the upload sites will swallow such a long file name as what I did to the pics (I wanted to preserve their comments by the original author), I just throwing it out there to show what is possible.

Ok, I will get down off my soapbox now. As I said...it is something to think about.

Spirithawke