Macupdate and Adium

Smacmac · Post by **Smacmac** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:38 pm

I use this MacUpdate menubar item that tells me when new software updates and stuff is added in MacUpdate's database.

So today when I saw that Adium X 0.89.1 was out I thought I should get it. (I kind of hoped that it would fix the "crash-while-connecting-to-MSN-bug"). Then I went to Macupdate.com and searched for adiumx. Yes I know I could use adium or adium x. Anyway I thought I would get a list where I could choose Adium X, but that wasn't what happended at all...

Search for adiumx yourself or try this link:

http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?os= ... rds=adiumx

Post by **bgannin** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:47 pm

Now that's interesting!

MacMom · Post by **MacMom** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:50 pm

Weird.

When I search for just plain Adium (no x), I get this:

http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?os= ... ords=adium

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:59 pm

Seems like MU has a duck-hater somewhere..

Smacmac · Post by **Smacmac** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:29 pm

MacMom wrote:When I search for just plain Adium (no x), I get this:

http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?os= ... ords=adium

We all do.

Same goes for Adium X (with space).

MacMom · Post by **MacMom** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:55 pm

The real question is why adiumx (no space) doesn't work.

Post by **bgannin** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:43 pm

I'm curious as to why other clients hit on the 'adium' or 'adiumx' keywords. That's certainly... um, unique unless they specifically note it in the text for some reason [though that doesn't necessarily explain it all.]

zerock · Post by **zerock** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:16 pm

it seems someone made the keyword "adiumx" be used for mercury.
they did that with poisoned and xfactor, if you search for xfactor, it would get poisoned instead.. this was a long time ago, dont know if its still the same.

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:15 pm

adiumx works for me.

Post by **evands** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:18 pm

The_Tick wrote:adiumx works for me.

It didn't before -- it just went to Mercury. I added adiumx to our keywords, so now it shows both Adium and Mercury. Pretty underhanded of whomever submitted the Mercury listing, really.

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:35 pm

evands wrote:
The_Tick wrote:adiumx works for me.
It didn't before -- it just went to Mercury. I added adiumx to our keywords, so now it shows both Adium and Mercury. Pretty underhanded of whomever submitted the Mercury listing, really.

Ya, I guess we could do the same, but that would just be wrong.

Although, it could be based on comments.

Post by **evands** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:59 pm

The_Tick wrote:
evands wrote:
The_Tick wrote:adiumx works for me.
It didn't before -- it just went to Mercury. I added adiumx to our keywords, so now it shows both Adium and Mercury. Pretty underhanded of whomever submitted the Mercury listing, really.
Ya, I guess we could do the same, but that would just be wrong.

Although, it could be based on comments.

Nope, I just checked Mercury's listing and they had included "adiumx adium x amsn" in their keywords. I took the liberty of updating their listing...

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:51 pm

evands wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
evands wrote: It didn't before -- it just went to Mercury. I added adiumx to our keywords, so now it shows both Adium and Mercury. Pretty underhanded of whomever submitted the Mercury listing, really.
Ya, I guess we could do the same, but that would just be wrong.

Although, it could be based on comments.
Nope, I just checked Mercury's listing and they had included "adiumx adium x amsn" in their keywords. I took the liberty of updating their listing...

Maybe we should do that for all the other apps using adium where they shouldn't be?