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if often updated, a check why and what if made to many times, add a "timeout" periode to prevent such practice

yes, many times I keep seeing the same extensions every day. This has to stop. This is just a promotion method used by some developers to stay in the front.
Adding a limit weekly or monthly will make sense. The per-day limit will not make sense.

imdevlper18 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:02 pm

if often updated, a check why and what if made to many times, add a "timeout" periode to prevent such practice

yes, many times I keep seeing the same extensions every day. This has to stop. This is just a promotion method used by some developers to stay in the front.
Adding a limit weekly or monthly will make sense. The per-day limit will not make sense.

Reporting those "developers" and/or their extensions will lead to a ban of them (as last action if they don't stop that practise).
What could be done also, is to add a limit per week per developer/partner group.
Monthly is maybe to less, as could be seen different OpenCart version are sometimes published 2,3 times a month in the past (very rare 2 times a week).

Okay. So what would be next. How to convey this to Daniel. May be create all points. This one and other stuff going on in different posts. And submit it all together. As just discussion will not make any sense.

OSWorX wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:04 pm

Reporting those "developers" and/or their extensions will lead to a ban of them (as last action if they don't stop that practise).
What could be done also, is to add a limit per week per developer/partner group.
Monthly is maybe to less, as could be seen different OpenCart version are sometimes published 2,3 times a month in the past (very rare 2 times a week).

Update date should show a last uploaded file date. Not a date when extension article was edited.

Because there are numerous situations when a developer needs to modify extension description/documentation/links/images/tags.
And you propose to report and ban for this.
Extension seller is not guilty that Marketplace is working the way it is.

clicker.extensions wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 08, 2021 12:03 am

OSWorX wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:04 pm

Reporting those "developers" and/or their extensions will lead to a ban of them (as last action if they don't stop that practise).
What could be done also, is to add a limit per week per developer/partner group.
Monthly is maybe to less, as could be seen different OpenCart version are sometimes published 2,3 times a month in the past (very rare 2 times a week).

Update date should show a last uploaded file date. Not a date when extension article was edited.

Because there are numerous situations when a developer needs to modify extension description/documentation/links/images/tags.
And you propose to report and ban for this.
Extension seller is not guilty that Marketplace is working the way it is.

Well, your points are all valid - unfortunetely!
If the system is designed that way, humans tend to "maximize" it - like politicians.

Just a sample from today from a template published on the Marketplace:

Compatibility
3.0.0.0, 3.0.1.1, 3.0.1.2, 3.0.2.0, 4.0.0.0_b, 3.0.3.0, 3.0.3.1, 3.0.3.2, 3.0.3.3, 3.0.3.5, 3.0.3.6, 3.0.3.7, 3.0.3.8

Last Update
8 Nov 2021
Created
16 Aug 2020

Whenever I see an extension compatible with 4.0.0.0_b - I know, that cannot be a developer.
And what was here the reason to update the template?
OpenCart v3.0.3.8 was published on August 27, 2021.
Either that "developer" has slept the last 2 months, was lazy, or what?
And if I look at the other extensions of this "developer", suprisingly all templates of him were "updated".

One reason more to rework the Mearketplace as soon as possible!

p.s.: for those who want to know what about I spoke: https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=40071
Made only 2 sales within 14 months - maybe no wonder, because most of the templates of him looking the same.