Userscripts.org

I just wondered about some entries in the index - to give a nice example: Check available scripts for USO with Greasefire (about 100), and you find a script called "a test" ranked at about #15 (so quite high). But clicking on it just shows "page not found" - with a hint to mail the admins if one feels this is an error. From the name, I feel it is an error this script is in the index - but the mail should be sent if I feel the missing page is an error. How to deal with those? Still use the mail link - or does it go to the wrong person then?

As you noticed elsewhere, it is now fixed :)

Change is here http://code.google.com/p/greasefire/source/deta... if you are interested.

There were a bunch more (I discover some of them every day), not sure whether you caught them as well. Some I reported to the mail address given on those errors. So still my remaining question: Where is the best place to report those? Since I've got no answer to the mail yet, it looks like here it is more efficient (so previous owners of those scripts even have a log #-)

Its not clear to me what the issue is. Are you saying that there are scripts missing from the index, or that there are scripts in the index that are invalid? Can scripts be removed from userscripts.org? If so, then I can it is quite possible that a script could be removed from us.o but still stick around in the index since I am not checking for this. I'll discuss this with Jesse and see what we can figure out.

Steve, you got it 100% right - I'm talking about scripts in the index which are obviously no longer existing on USO (when I select them, I get that Ooops-message). So probably they got stuck in the index only, and exist nowhere else (except maybe for Google cache and archive.org ).

So where to report them best, together with available information (like "is dupe of..." or "exists in the index only")? Or do you think of some automatic process (wget all urls and look out for 404s, for example)?

It will be an automatic progress. I currently do a full download of all scripts once a week, and I could be filtering out deleted scripts at this point. There may be other options -- I'll let you know what we come up with :)

Thank you, Steve! That with the automatic process sounds good, and will be the best for killing deleted scripts from the index. It could probably indicate duplicates as well (as long as they have the same name - there are some like that) and list them for manual checking. So I wait for what you come up with. If I can be of any help, just let me know.