I'm guessing their IP is 128.12.176.129, which was blocked a while ago for suspicious activities.
403 Error [06:11:47]
Hey, my friend tries to hit the site and gets a 403 error... but it works fine for me... the only difference I can tell is our IP addresses.... we're both on stanford campus.. Ideas ?
MATadmin [01:16:22]
Probably not. Our focus is on gathering dups from multiple places, whereas the App Store is single-sourced by design.
The more pertinent question for aggregation is what they duplicate. If they have have a large % of unique releases, there is no difficulty in using them directly.
SarahD [05:41:35]
I would like to see Softpedia updates. Did you contact Softpedia and ask them to fix this in their end? How many percent of apps are only in Softpedia, i mean how many updates we dont see now at all?
MATadmin [10:21:38]
Softpedia is officially gone. Xilisoft and ImTOO got in on the video spam act and there were no signs of Softpedia stopping it.
MATadmin [19:40:59]
A quick peek didn't show anything awful OR useful. A pointless download, but not obviously dangerous at this point.
Concerned User [12:37:11]
Has anyone tried downloading the "Daedalus" beta? It linked to a file "Mp3Usher.jar" -Even if I liked that kind of music, it still smells like a Trojan to me...
MATadmin [11:40:53]
We don't (yet!) have pages for each product. The feed does still link to software pages on the sites we aggregate.
Mario [17:00:46]
Great site! One thing bugs me: in the RSS feed, could you link each article to the entry for the product, instead of to the main MAT page?
MATadmin [14:41:15]
It's not a particularly great burden, just an incremental expense to cover.
Carrie&Sarah [10:06:49]
It's ok to us if you add feed with ads. What if you have 2 feeds, one with ads and another without? That would be cool. Or maybe someone with lots of bandwidth/cpu could host larger feed.
MATadmin [23:41:08]
That's not really the problem feeds solve. You can go back as many days as you want from the site itself.
Andre [21:47:18]
I don't mind the feeds broken down by day but I do wish previous days feeds were archived. It's hard to catch up after vacation!
Carrie [05:05:16]
Could you please add 24 hour or even longer feeds. Now i lose updates because i don't have RSS-reader running all the time. Thx
MATadmin [13:02:12]
The feed is currently 12 hours of releases. We really should have an archive of old News stories on the site . . .
Jackson [05:11:22]
Where are August 14th and 13th pages?
Carrie [05:09:27]
How many hours worth apps is in MAT RSS feed?
MATadmin [04:08:33]
Upgraded to highlight the last release seen and not just the last full hour. It's a larger cookie, but worth it!