I would like to request updating the resource page to reflect active links and eliminate broken ones. Example: When you click on Jackpack, you are sent to Gumroad, which states “This product is no longer for sale”. In another post @Michelist had shared a link, which ended to call for a subscription to download said free brush pack. This, though fine, if you want to have a $7.99/mo subscription, does not help people later that might want to gather brush packs as they are just starting Krita. And we, as Krita users, shouldn’t have to rely on others like @Michelist constantly, when there is a page for this sort of thing in the User’s Manual.
For everyone not knowing what this is about, @DMY169 is not talking about the resource category/page of our forum, @DMY169 is talking about the broken links in the Krita manual, that can also be found following a link from Krita’s official homepage.
Usually it is enough to inform @scottyp about broken links on the Krita homepage, what is a different thing than the Krita-Artists.org homepage! That is the official realm of the Stichting Krita Foundation and KDE, not the forum.
The forum was founded by @raghukamath and @coding_coffee (if I’m not mistaken, but I strongly believe it was @coding_coffee), call it a private project if you like.
A little more about the relations of both can be read in our FAQ.
The forum links to the Jackpack (+Realwater) Legacy Brushes-bundles of @Jack_The_Vulture work fine, and the download-links to his Google Drive too.
And I have updated the links I had to this resource in my cloud, as I already have checked every link to every resource I offer via my cloud, after @DMY169’s information about ufile[.]io asking for money to download that file.
Funnily, @DMY169 found the first resource that was set on “expired” from ufile[.]io and because of that asking for money to download that file, fortunately an unfortunate coincidence, because otherwise I would hardly have known that I have to check my links after three years of being online. That is now done, and the links are updated. That means everyone can download it for free again.
For all who also want the bundles from @wolthera, they can be found at pling.com, or for everyone who wants, I can offer them via my cloud too (drop me a PM), here are the links to pling:
@Pyteo’s bundles are offered by him in the forum only in part, if he has no longer all of his bundles I don’t know, here in the forum I have posted at least one link to package containing all of them in my cloud, @Pyteo’s topics are found here:
and here you get them all at once out of my cloud:
In case, in the future, any of the links to my cloud says the link is expired and ufile[.]io is asking you for money to download the file, please let me know, and I’ll renew the link to that resource.
Michelist
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@DMY169, I think that Artists Feedback & Testing - Krita Artists fits much better, because it is not a feature to develop but something broken that needs to be fixed and the persons in charge need to be informed about the issue.
I would therefore like to move this topic to Artists Feedback & Testing - Krita Artists, is that okay with you?
Michelist
move away. I really was guessing which category to post it, hoping one of you would suggest the appropriate spot
Got a warning from Firefox
Blockquote cdn-eu-hz-3.ufile.io has been reported as containing harmful software. You can ignore the risk and go to this unsafe site.
Since user in between meant to vote for this, it is now impossible to move… 
Michelist
This can happen on any smaller file hosting platform, as the hosters have no influence on what users upload illegally to these platforms and what is offered there.
It happens exactly the same with Google, Dropbox, OneDrive, box, Mega, …
Unfairly, these reports are suppressed for the “big” platforms, such as Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, and some other big players, although they have to deal with the same problems, as these platforms exert “a certain amount of pressure” on the browser manufacturers with sponsorship and advertising, Firefox, for example, is sponsored by Google, would you annoy your biggest sponsor?
One should be aware of these unfair practices towards competitors with little economic power.
ufile[.]io has faced this problem several times in the past. It is said that ufile[.]io has at least two times, maybe more, closed down their service, scanned everything hosted on their servers and cleaned out those files and the user-accounts sharing such material.
But they can not do much against such users, none of the hosters can, they only can hope they catch newly created unknown malware via their AV-scanners. But here comes the unholy “the power of the mighty” into play, a power not many have, but many are afraid of.
Think about it. 
And, even if the files were from my best friend, I scan every file I download from the WWW via VirusTotal! And everyone should do this too, because no one using the web is safe for getting infected via a new unknown thread. To believe this can or does not happen to you, because “you know what you do”, or “because you use an up-to-date virus-scanner” is self-betrayal at the highest possible level - hubris!
Michelist
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The @Pyteo zip is safe to download then? I didn’t know Firefox was sponsored by Google!!! That is a disappointment. Thank you for the information @Michelist
EDIT: The fast download simply downloaded the file thankfully. It is only the free download option that leads to the warning page. The fast download was free anyway.
Edit: I strongly believe the files I offer are malware free when I upload them, BUT I can not guarantee for it, because I use my PC for all activities on the internet. I take several measures to prevent any infection, but one is always only running behind the new malware that is pumped into the WWW and trying to fix the holes they drill into your security-concept. I’m not stupid, I believe to know relatively well what I do, what I can do, and what I should prevent/never do, but the best experts were tricked, I would be megalomaniacal to believe that I would be better, safer than them. Even if I surf from virtual machines and do everything else I can, I can’t guarantee anything.
As I wrote, check every file you download via a site like VirusTotal, a multiple-virus-scanner web service.
Depending on the type of resource to scan, there can be up to 90 scanning-engines checking a file or website you present them.
Alternatives can be:
A multi-scanner:
https://virusscan.jotti.org/de
A multi-scanner:
Multi-scanner from Iran:
https://multiav.bitbaan.com/en/home
A single scanner that checks single (Windows) files:
A scanner for websites:
You can find more services that offer free online-scans of single files or even your whole computer, most of them are not bad, but there are a few out there that only say that they are online scanners, if a site claims to have found malware on your system (often they find hundreds of VERY DANGEROUS THREATS) and offers in the same moment to sell you a solution to get rid of these threats, just leave that site and never visit them again, it is a scam!
The advantage of these online scanners is that they check files sent in for suspicious activity on the most up-to-date systems, which in all probability are themselves free of malware, something you can only hope for from your own computer.
However, you have to be able to interpret the results. If 67 out of 70 scanners say a file is clean, then there is a high probability that the hits are false positives. The MaxSecure scanner in particular is known to consider 99% of all submissions to be dangerous. SecureAge and SentinelOne (Static ML) are also notorious for false positives, so you have to use your common sense, especially if all three hits you get are from these engines.
Michelist
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I can delete? But by doing so all the work posting the links would be lost
So, better do not delete, the links could, at least partly, be of help for those who care for the Krita homepage and the manual.
It was just a bad timing (or my texts are too long )
Michelist
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Hi!
I didn’t check if the links of my bundles are updated in their specific topics yet but I’ll post the updated links here.
Concept & Illustration: Concept_&_Illustration_v1.2.bundle - Google Drive
Concept & Illustration Lite: Concept&Illustration_LITE_1.1.bundle - Google Drive
Hope it helps
Yep, these are the forum-topics where everything is working! The issue was about broken links to a few resources in Krita’s manual. You have done everything you can do, thank you.
Now, those responsible for the Krita home page that links to the resources page in the manual, and those of the Krita manual itself, (should) have the information needed to fix those links, or perhaps download those resources that are currently (only?) available via my cloud, and host them on a more reliable platform.
I’m just an enthusiastic private citizen, a one-man army, and could fail at any moment. Who knows how long I will be able to manage my cloud? Even though I’m only 58 and would like to be 100, the fact that I’m bedridden in a nursing home for the ninth year speaks a different language, if I’m honest with myself. And the fact that I am losing more and more control over my body should make me calculate with the undesirable instead of arrogantly deluding myself.
Michelist
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I made an MR to update the links of the “Jackpack” and “Concept & Illustration” bundles based on the information in this thread (with a question to Wolthera about her bundles’ broken link).
If there are any other links on the manual’s Resource page that need to be updated or removed, please report those.
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