Better mod & game version sorting/organizing

[RandomGgames]

So currently, when you upload a new version of a mod, most people will split up the mod version and supported version. There are some mod devs that upload an updated version of their mod and include multiple files that are game version specific. These files, through the API, are indistinguishable from each other other than the name. An example of this can be seen on autopath v1.4.9.

What I would suggest is that when a new version is created, multiple files can be uploaded and each file requires a minecraft version or versions. This data would be accessed through the API as a list of strings representing game versions. The current game versions does not need to change, but if say a new version supports 1.18-1.19.2, each file separately would say for what. 1.18-1.18.2, then another 1.19-1.19.4 for example. Continuing to use autopath as an example, it would change from this:

To this

And for the API, something like

"files": [
			{
				"hashes": {
					"sha1": "b125c3ce7130886ab6be74c0c52163f73ececbdb",
					"sha512": "ca2517707cae041c6ed4c02c97365e4ac6685ad2222089b8f0ffa4c8cb48f33a78cce05a71b40a5e5019c4c74c9aded3063c5cc5c73ae09ff4fa9d5ae3570264"
				},
				"url": "https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/rYdrYotO/versions/EfPAPFIr/autopath-mc1.19.3-1.4.9.jar",
				"filename": "autopath-mc1.19.3-1.4.9.jar",
				"primary": true,
				"size": 1066329,
				"file_type": null
			}, ...

Would become

"files": [
			{
				"hashes": {
					"sha1": "b125c3ce7130886ab6be74c0c52163f73ececbdb",
					"sha512": "ca2517707cae041c6ed4c02c97365e4ac6685ad2222089b8f0ffa4c8cb48f33a78cce05a71b40a5e5019c4c74c9aded3063c5cc5c73ae09ff4fa9d5ae3570264"
				},
				"url": "https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/rYdrYotO/versions/EfPAPFIr/autopath-mc1.19.3-1.4.9.jar",
				"filename": "autopath-mc1.19.3-1.4.9.jar",
				"game_versions": [
					"1.19.3"
				],
				"primary": true,
				"size": 1066329,
				"file_type": null
			}, ...

[triphora]

This is the incorrect way of uploading versions and I will be in contact with @lebonq to have them fix this.

[lebonq]

Fixed !
To be fair it was not really obvious to me. The button to add a file is Upload a version which, for me, was referring to a new mod version and not just add a new file for a newer MC version. Maybe a better wording would avoid this issue in the future ? (like Upload new files)

[RandomGgames]

Well in that case, some for https://modrinth.com/mod/enchanted-vertical-slabs/version/1.6

[triphora]

Please report any other projects you find with this issue.

[RandomGgames]

Would the best reason be for poor description, invalid metadata or other?

[RandomGgames]

And would you like me to report both of these?

[triphora]

Invalid metadata. And if you could I would appreciate it.

[RandomGgames]

Np! Happy to help out :D