First, I just wrote an email to your "hiyohiyo [at] crystalmark info" address (listed on your main website) and it bounced back with this error:
permission denied. Command output: maildrop:
maildir over quota.
I didn't know that you had a github page also. My email was about the problem of watching the releases/updates with the OSDN RSS feed. Before I copy paste that email here, could I ask why you are not releasing the software here in github? I mean in the "Releases" section. That way people could subscribe/watch the releases of your software through github.
Here's the email I tried to send you:
On your OSDN download/website there is a possibility to subscribe to a RSS feed of the releases for your excellent CrystalDiskInfo program. There's just a problem how the OSDN makes the RSS feeds and how you release your software there.
For example, your latest versions of 8.11.x "branch", they all are in the same "package" (I don't know the correct nomenclature), e.g. 8.11.0, 8.11.1 and 8.11.2 versions/files are all in a same "package" (which is currently named as "8.11.2").
This is a problem for the RSS feed because although the value of the "title" rss/xml element changes as the "package" name changes, the "guid" element value stays the same. The "guid" element is a unique value for the feed item. The value is the package link (e.g. "https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/releases/74602") and because it does not change, RSS feed readers (at least the ones that work normally) do not update that feed item and do not make it as new/unreadable. For example Feedly.com service works this way.
Here is a screenshot of the OSDN RSS feed in Feedly.
As you can see, the people reading that RSS feed, they are missing a lot of updates/releases to the program. Only the first version is seen in the feed reader, the "major.minor.0" version, except with 8.8.x branch which might be because you quickly released the 8.8.1 after the first 8.8.0 and the feed reader hadn't picked up the first release yet.
Currently following that RSS feed, all subsequent patch-level updates are not shown to readers.
Could you please, if you want to keep using OSDN, release every version, even the patch-level versions as their own "packages"? That way the RSS feed would work fine.
OR/AND, additionally, have you thought about adding an update check to the software itself? Optionally through the settings of course, not all would want the software to connect to the internet.
The Wordpress RSS feed on your main website doesn't work properly either. The https://crystalmark.info/en/feed/ RSS feed has the "8.10.0" release as the latest RSS feed item.
Thank you! And thank you for the amazing software you have made!!
So, please consider making it easier/fully working for people to receive update notifications to your software. Now that I found you github page, I'd prefer that, IF you start releasing versions here, otherwise it obviously won't work. :) THANKS!
Hi hiyohiyo! :)
First, I just wrote an email to your "hiyohiyo [at] crystalmark info" address (listed on your main website) and it bounced back with this error:
I didn't know that you had a github page also. My email was about the problem of watching the releases/updates with the OSDN RSS feed. Before I copy paste that email here, could I ask why you are not releasing the software here in github? I mean in the "Releases" section. That way people could subscribe/watch the releases of your software through github.
Here's the email I tried to send you:
So, please consider making it easier/fully working for people to receive update notifications to your software. Now that I found you github page, I'd prefer that, IF you start releasing versions here, otherwise it obviously won't work. :) THANKS!