Hello everybody, I am a former script author at USO. Like many others I am facing the issue of migrating my users to another site (GreasyFork in my case). Of course I wrote blog comments, Facebook messages and Twitter updates to ask for my users to reinstall the scripts from the new location, but there is no guarantee that all of them will read.
I believe this is a common problem, not just for my ~40k users, so I would like to try to suggest a couple of ideas which IMHO could help all users of Greasemonkey which installed stuff from USO: 1. check if the user has scripts installed from that site and warn them about the problem, maybe putting a link to the "get userscripts page" suggesting to search if the author has posted the same thing on another repository 2. "automagically" convert update links to use the famous :8080 port trick and allow plain HTTP updates for that domain only 3. check if the script author has put an alternate @updateURL on the "old" script accessed via the 8080 port and start using only that one What do you think about these proposals? Do they make sense to you? Please let me know your opinions and also if you have other strategies for migrating users. Best regards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
