[pLog-svn] some people are privacy crazed

[Oscar Renalias]

I saw that yesterday too, but I think that the issue was totally blown
out of proportions.

If you remember, we've had a version notification system since LT
1.2.4 but I think we did it the right way compared to the way WP is
doing it:

- The "version check" functionality is currently not automatic, so
users need to actively visit the "plugin centre" and/or the "versions"
screens and click a button to receive information about the most
recent version and whether or not they should upgrade. I've
purposefully reserved the right to do this automatically in the
future, though (but it'll be opt-in or at least easy to disable)

- Our implementation is built based on RSS feeds, so the bulk of the
processing is done on the client side. In the WP implementation,
they've got a web service that collects data from clients and informs
them whether they should upgrade or not. In our implementation, the
RSS feed just contains information about available versions and the
client figures out whether the user need to upgrade or not. Our
implementation is also more secure, as it does not require any PHP
code on the server side (imagine if WP's web service were to be
compromised!)

Oscar

On 9/26/07, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
> If/when we add the thing that allows people to get a notification about a
> new version available, we'll have to add a way to disable it, since some
> folks don't like their blog URL being sent to someone else.  And to think
> I thought URLs were public, and the whole point of the internet was to
> have other people come to your site...
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/09/25/1632246.shtml
>
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