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We can't count downloads offsite. We could trap clicks to offsite hosting of code, but we can't then tell whether they've merely visited a page or actually downloaded the code.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yeah - obviously system is easy to trick... but so is current one - i.e. I could just put up link to empty zip (or text file with link to GitHub) and say it source code download.
So, I am wondering, could we find a way to improve this? Like if you are against counting clicks to repository (even though it's the same thing - intent is to browser source code) could I link to zip that downloads repository:
https://github.com/lepipele/csharpWebCam/archive/master.zip[^]
I definitely think that linking Git repository is improvement over linking zip with source code and people shouldn't be penalized for using it.
Thanks for listening and let me know what is decided - I could help with implementing this if you are short on dev resources.
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We (speaking as a community member rather than as a CP staff member) definitely prefer projects to have at least a version of your code here on CodeProject rather than out in CodePlex. Part of the reason for this is that it's incredibly easy for a project and an article to get out of sync if they are hosted in different locations. At least, if we have a version here, we have a project that is a snapshot taken at a point in time. By all means, link out to your CodePlex/Github/etc article, but have a version here.
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I mean - you can view this problem from different perspectives. But the core of the problem is if I leave version of code here on CodeProject people will download that version of code and then CAN'T CONTRIBUTE. Exact reason why Git was invented.
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There's no reason to shout. Of course they can contribute. That's why I said provide a link to your CodePlex/Github/whatever version. How hard is it for you to put a comment on your article that people should go to your repo to get the latest version if they are looking to contribute? Try looking at the problem from this perspective - suppose someone chooses one of the many, many, many online repositories and then just provides a link to that from their article. Now, take this further and imagine what happens when Google takes this source provider over and decides two years down the line to close it because it no longer aligns with their core business. Now where do people go to get the code?
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OK - I tried... wasted my time as always. Status quo it is.
EDIT: I did type quite long response but didn't see the point - I am not here to argue; rather wanted to help with better handling of problematic case.
Cheers.
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Not only because of companies might take over the hosting provider. There are many code hosting sites out there and the author himself might someday want (or has) to change the site he's hosting his code on (e.g. not too long ago a hosting provider shut down after he got hacked). If the article doesn't get updated there isn't a working link to the code any longer.
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As I said, recording a click outside to another site is easy, but tracking what happens on that site is impossible. We simply can't tell what's going on outside of CodeProject.
At a deeper level, reputation points are for what people do on CodeProject, not what they do outside of CodeProject. If we support GitHub then we also have to support BitBucket, and CodePlex, and SourceForge, and then what about gists, or Samples on JSFiddle? It goes on an on.
I understand where you are coming from and it's a nice idea, but for sanity's sake we'll keep it simple.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well, I disagree with some points - but as I said to Pete - I'll stop wasting everyone's time and figure out what I can do on my own on this topic. Maybe add text file to zip with source code or something... will see what works best with what is available to me.
Thanks for taking time to respond and I appreciate that you said you understand the idea - who knows maybe something will be done about this down the road...
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Today when moderating articles, I gave the 4th approve vote to an article. For the sake of testing, I refreshed and voted to approve again, but instead of saying "4", it now said "1". Then I tried the same on a different article, and the same there! Instead of saying "4" twice, it said "4" the first time and "1" the second time.
Do approve votes get lost?
(For the people who wonder why I decided to test this: I recently noticed that it hardly ever happened that I gave the last approve vote for articles, and a few months ago that happened way more frequently; so I decided to see what happens here, and I got to this strange result.)
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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If the author updated their article in between votes then the approval count gets reset.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I see... it's still strange though that this happened twice, with a delay of less than a minute.
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Other langauge is not displayed in Technical Blog.
Click here 
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That's because the font the site uses does not support those Unicode characters.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: That's because the font the site uses does not support those Unicode characters.
Ok,then it's a bug..
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Yes. On the TODO
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ok.. 
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I have posted a new question , I don't see my question on QA list ,i tried to find but it shows on top of the page by the next 5 mins ,its took 5 mins to show up on list.As same as if i update any question ,its took some amount time to show up on list. why?
நெஞ்சு பொறுக்கு திலையே-இந்த
நிலைகெட்ட மனிதரை நினைந்துவிட்டால்
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There could be several reasons: it could be that the database farm took a while to feed it through to the webserver you were connected to.
But the most likely reason is that it was picked up by the automatic spam filter system and went to moderation. That means a human has to notice, check, and approve the question before it is published to prevent inappropriate material.
It happens, the spam detector makes mistakes occasionally - but it also catches a lot of cr@p and that makes the site as a whole a lot better place to be. (It catches some of my answers as well).
Don't worry about it, don't try to analyse why it caught it - because we don't want to give spammers any clues as to what will get through - and thank the hamsters for providing a "check" system instead of just cancelling your account! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Why Cp providing only Top 5 experts on current month.Atleast we can provide "Top 10" because we want to know many more experts list.
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RajeeshMenoth wrote: because we want to know many more experts list
Then why only 10 out of 11,364,743 ?
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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Quote: Then why only 10 out of 11,364,743 ?
"Top 10" is enough.otherwise we need large space... 
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Because it's irrelevant?
Personally, I don't see it has any real value, even with five on there...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agree; it only has value when my name is on there.
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