2012/8/9 Roberto Galoppini <[email protected]>: > Below what's new, I also blogged about that at SourceForge blog. > > 1) Download statistics are now automatically obtained via the > SourceForge API and are more reliable than the old system, in which > the counters had been turned off and remained stuck for a long time > due to inaccuracies in the counting procedures and incompatibilities > with cache system. By the way, the SourceForge API is the same system > used for the official Apache OpenOffice counter downloads. > Additionally, since we can’t calculate statistics for externally > hosted extensions as reliably, their download counters have been > removed and they won’t appear in the “Most Popular Extensions” > listings. This is also the case for Commercial extensions with no > public releases. Note that the default home page of the Extensions > site has been set back to "Most Popular Extensions", as we believe > that newcomers would probably benefit from having the top extensions > in the home page. To provide visitors only meaningful statistics, the > daily download numbers have been replaced by a link to a timeline with > real-time statistics, charts and analysis. > > 2) The new antispam system is now online on the Extensions site. We’ve > tested it extensively. Since the live site receives up to 50 spam > submissions per day it was pretty easy to figure out if it was working > properly. It has been in operation for over a week and so far has > proved very effective. For end-users this means meaningful comments > are more visible and the possibility of adding comments if needed > (something we had to temporarily block for some titles because of the > spam). > > 3) We updated the graphic theme of the site and the primary links to > reflect the new name and new logo for Apache OpenOffice. In this way > visitors can more easily identify these sites as the official > repositories of OpenOffice Extensions and Templates, and they can be > confident that they are still maintained. > > Roberto > > -- > ==== > This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It > may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the > intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately > notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any > attachment(s) from your system. Thank you. >
Great news! The spam disappeared from the site. A quick question: which is the best way for an user to report problems found on the site? Regards Ricardo
