Re: Where are good places to publish scripts
Re: Where are good places to publish scripts
- Subject: Re: Where are good places to publish scripts
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:16:42 -0700
- Thread-topic: Where are good places to publish scripts
On 5/26/05 7:43 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On May 25, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Michael Gmail wrote:
>
>>> I would like to provide my vacation mail script to the public, but
>>> have no idea where to put it for downloading.
>>>
>>> Got any relevant suggestions?
>>
>> <http://macscripter.net/upload/>
>
> Anybody have any other suggestions? I'd like to reach a wider
> audience, including people who don't write scripts.
Take a look at some of the "most popular" scripts at that website, Michelle.
A lot of people download from there who "don't write scripts". Any script
you post there is automatically picked up by MacUpdate, as a direct download
with the blurb taken over too, and it's very easy to also list it at
versiontracker, with direct download from macscripter.net. I think that 95%
of my downloads from macscripter.net come via direct download listings at
versiontracker and macupdate (which both require direct download sites). I
also keep the scripts on my iDisk, and list that as an alternate download,
but it would never be able to handle the traffic as the main site (at least
earlier incarnations of iDisk couldn't), plus macscripter.net keeps track of
download numbers through different versions, which is nice.
Macscripter.net took over from AppleScript Central, where my scripts used to
be, about two years or so ago. At ASC, people were always having trouble -
the download hosting site was always getting swamped. At macscripter.net,
this has never happened once - it's perfect from that regard (and most
others). They've just started letting scripters take care of all the
editing, etc. of the blurbs themselves, which makes it even handier. It
seems that having a big server for downloading is essential, especially for
a popular site. So I recommend posting there, and then having links from
wherever else you list it. Obviously versiontracker is the most well-known
and most visited, and MacUpdate seems to to pretty well too. There may be
others.
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Paul Berkowitz
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