Here’s a statistic that I find very interesting: 94% of freepository’s visitors hit us with a direct URI. That is, there’s no referral. They know about freepository already, so they type in the URI.
Freepository is a unique name; while it is possible some visitors simply typed it in randomly or accidently, well.. [...]
This must be your lucky week. First RSS feeds, now secure WebDAV folders.
If you have wanted to keep track of your project’s progress using RSS feeds… today is your lucky day.
If you are one of our many thousands of direct-client using members (i.e. Eclipse, WinCVS, TortoiseCVS), you connect to the Freepository server via a dedicated port, aka a listener. Today we improved one of the functions that manages these listeners.
As promised, we’ve analyzed the past three months worth of direct client connections (i.e. via Eclipse, TortoiseCVS, WinCVS, our secure command line client, etc.) and have confirmed the pattern that we believed was emerging.