Hi Laurențiu and Greg, > but you can use the X-Forwarded-For or CF-Connecting-IP headers to find out the real IP of the client.
That's correct, and I guess it's the right way. But for the rating specifically, we need to store them in the DB if we want to correctly manage the rating abuse which requires a another discussion and as mentioned by Regis earlier: "This feature would open the gate to a bunch of security / privacy /compliance issues that I don't thing we want to add complexity right now, as this is one strength of QGIS, to have no link with our public infrastructure and no personal data collection. " > Stepping back, why does the QGIS project feel the need to support a rating system for third-party code at all? Unfortunately, I don't have the direct answer to that. I was involved in implementing download statistics by country for each plugin and I think this is similar. Basically, they provide insights/metrics for plugin developers and maybe for users as well. > Why not just remove all rating data, and remove the code in qgis to fetch ratings and vote? Technically, that aligns with part of my suggestion earlier. However, this should include (re)-implementing a clean proper rating system that requires users to be authenticated and leave a comment, which would help plugin developers improve their plugins as Denis and Nyall mentioned. Best regards, Lova Andriarimalala *QGIS Full Stack Developer * *T *: +27(0) 87 809 2702 *E *: [email protected] *W* : kartoza.com On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 at 13:35, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer < [email protected]> wrote: > Lova Andriarimalala via QGIS-Developer <[email protected]> > writes: > > > Following the plugin rating abuse issue reported at > > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Plugins-Website/issues/416 and > > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Plugins-Website/issues/420, I wonder if > > someone could help or share some thoughts about it. > > Stepping back, why does the QGIS project feel the need to support a > rating system for third-party code at all? > > Why not just remove all rating data, and remove the code in qgis to > fetch ratings and vote? > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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