Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for great idea to have home page that makes it super easy to
post comment. I'll work on that.

- Alex K

On Aug 16, 1:59 pm, Jonathan Vanasco <[email protected]> wrote:
> there are a large number of automatic downloads from web crawlers that will
> index or re-host the packages.
>
> some of them are legit, others are for advertising farms ( they do a lot of
> SEO optimization against your project , to overtake the real origin in
> search rankings - then advertise against the traffic ) or marketing scams (
> every time i upload something, i get a new "Your package was included in
> this prestigious directory!" form letter )
>
> otherwise, I've had the same experiences as you.
>
> i've discovered that if you want feedback/etc - the best option is to make
> a link in the PyPi record and the homepage to a GitHub page ( or make the
> homepage on github ).  aside from tapping into their community / tools , it
> just makes it super easy for someone to comment "this is great" or ticket
> some bugs/feature requests .. vs emailing you or emailing a public list.
>   i've also had people randomly fork, rewrite and push code back to me -
> without hearing from them.  and i've done the same too -- finding it faster
> to just fork , fix and pull-request than to wait on a debate.

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