Hello,
Dave, I would love to update my listings, but I'm not sure what
exactly I'm supposed to change with the current system. The
"description" for the class/module doesn't generally change with an
update, and there's no field for "version number" or "what's new".
Is the version number supposed to be included in the name? And the
new features added to the description? If a developer posts an update
like this will it appear in the "New Listings" section?
Thanks,
Navdeep Bains
Bains Software
On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Dave Wooldridge wrote:
Bjorn,
Thanks for your feedback!
Like you've suggested, I've often thought about auto-sorting the
listings
with newer or recently modified listings at the top of categories
and older
stale listings being sent to the bottom of the categories, but that
would
negatively affect the alphabetical sorting which makes specific
items easier
to find. I think most people expect the listings in portal
directories like
RBGarage.com and VersionTracker.com to be alphabetically sorted.
As for listing version info, I have mixed feelings about that since
developers do not seem to stay on top of their listings, so with
version
info listed, many of the listings would become outdated way too
quickly for
no reason.
I'll give this some more thought... Thanks! :-)
Regards,
Dave Wooldridge
RB Garage
http://www.RBGarage.com
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on 12/5/06 9:55 AM, Björn Eiríksson wrote:
And who would spend their precious time constantly reviewing the
1,000's of
listings every week to make sure they are not obsolete or
unsupported? And
how would one know if a product is still supported without spending
some
more extra time to contact the developer? Since many times the
product may
no longer be supported but the developer still has their web page
up, making
it hard to easily identify what products are still valid.
You don't need to, once someone has once posted then its not likely
that their 2nd time is a spam or bogus post.
And you don't need to take out obsoletes either, versioning takes
care of all that since by nature then products that are never updated
never get focus on them, and end at bottom in the pile (where they
belong).
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