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Hi Zuze

Yes - we've found its easier to organize through Meetup.com

Steve

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We have updated Joomla! Extensions Directory - Your assistance is needed! After 2 1/2 years of hard work, the 1.5 stable has finally been released. During this period the 3rd party developers have been able to state in JED if their extensions are compatible with the 1.0.x and 1.5 series. As you can ...

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Hi,

This is unfortunately the wrong forum to ask support questions. Could you try reposting here:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=39

Thanks

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Just created a Meetup.com group:
http://opensource.meetup.com/91/

Looks like we're the first Meetup.com Joomla group

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Thumbs up again. Thanks Lorenzo

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I guess the follow-up question is ... should this be listed on the Extensions directory?

If it makes no changes to the code apart from changing the adverts, shouldn't it be removed?

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Great news, thanks Lorenzo :) I think this will do quite a bit to protect the reputation of Joomla and 3rd party developers. Both Xmap and Joomap corrected the mistake very quickly when the issue was raised (although a lot of people downloaded it before the links were publicised.) The Fireboard sear...

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Now Wales' national assembly is running a Joomla website and has discovered hidden advertising from Joomap: http://www.dysg.org.uk/

These hidden links don't do anything for Joomla's credibility.

Are we any closer to a decision on this topic?

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Hi Guys

I've been pushing this for a while: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=262&t=242770

This kind of advertising does Joomla's credibility no good and we'd be better not to list guilty extensions on Joomla.org.

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Wonderful to hear - thanks Ty

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Hi dex - Also, I think #4 was just a temporary offline error. It should be gone now.

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Hi Joseph Looks like you're right. A Google search reveals those three kinds of URL, one working, two not: topic,153290.html works: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=html&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=CR4&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&...

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One practical question if I can .... are any plans in place to manage the old forum URLs?

They are referenced in 1000s of forum posts here and articles across the net (plus Google of course, which has 180,000 of them).

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Very impressive and very smooth migration. Congrats, guys!

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Congrats, guys!

masterchief wrote:Let's make 2008 the year that 1.5 takes over the world

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And again ....

Joomlart's Transmenu: click to see how many sites are hiding links they don't know about

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And here we go again ...

Smoothgallery by OSCandy.com contains three hidden backlinks with the text:

"Please do not remove this line, visitors don't see it, but search engines do. We appreciate backlinks, please consider this your thank you."

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Hey All The January Meeting is this Wednesday. The meeting will be as planned on January 16th from 7 to 9 p.m. We will be in the same place as before: the 5 Seasons Brewing restaurant in Alpharetta. This month's meeting will be on Community Builder. Please feel free to print and bring along any tips...

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One more (fixed now) to add to the list:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... 153249.htm

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Found another extension operating in a very grey area .. the Fireboard searchbot: m It places an ad for the developer as the first result in all searches made on your site. Again, not disclosed, but there is a small option inside the mambot to turn it off. I spoke to several people who had the adver...

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Hi garyamort Thanks for the reply I'd recommend making Joomlacredits optional in the same way that linking to Joomla is optional. However, given Joomla's huge reach, even if 5% of people use it, thats a flood of 10,000s of genuine links for developers. #2 ... after pondering this, I think you're rig...

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Thanks Lorenzo I understand that developers want something back for their efforts, but its good if we work towards providing them with clear, open links (for example, from JoomlaCredits) and don't accept invisible links. Perhaps these two criteria are all that is needed: 1) Links should be clearly v...

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Hey All We have two questions to get the Atlanta group ready for 2008: 1) "Would it be better if we meet closer to Atlanta?" There will be no December meeting because of Christmas. However, we're thinking ahead to the January 16th Meeting and are wondering if we should move closer to the city. We're...

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I'm surprised someone hasn't posted a reply to you Epsylon.

Certainly seems like it should be removed ...

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Yes, 100%. Technically you'll be in violation of Google's guidelines. Whether or not sites will be penalized is a question thats difficult to determine, but the violation is clear. m I've bolded key statements: Hiding text or links in your content can cause your site to be perceived as untrustworthy...

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Hi All We've just found that Joomap and XMap have hidden advertising links. The full details are m but the long and the short of it is that they had a rotating series of text links back to the developer's site. These were invisible links at the bottom of the sitemaps. On Joomap this was undisclosed ...

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Doing good so far - we've a group of Joomla developers who meet every month.

The goal in the new year is to expand to include more end-users and newcomers to Joomla.

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Wednesday night should a lot of fun because its the fourth meeting of Joomla South East, one of a growing number of Joomla User Groups around the world. We're meeting from 7.00 to 9.00 pm at the 5 Seasons Brewing Company in Alpharetta. Their website is 5SeasonsBrewing.com. We have a conference room ...

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Hi Al Wednesday night should a lot of fun because its the first meeting of Joomla South East, one of a growing number of Joomla User Groups around the world. We're meeting from 7.00 to 9.00 pm at the 5 Seasons Brewing Company in Alpharetta. Their website is 5SeasonsBrewing.com and you can get a link...

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Again, thank you all for your patience and understanding.

No - thank you, Louis for a very impressive post after a mistake. It was direct, honest and very reassuring.

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