The upload portion of the theme site is done, but I'm half expecting there to be a bug somewhere in it. Those who have themes they want to upload can test it if they want. Downloads appear to be counted properly, and KratoJet currently has the most downloads
Google is still being kind of mean and isn't indexing the site yet, but I imagine it will be soon.
Tomorrow I hope to add the ability to only display themes by a particular submitter, probably in the form of http://themes.chrisjs.com/user/Chrisjs or http://themes.chrisjs.com/Chrisjs. Not quite sure which one though.. In any event, the site was designed to allow themes only by a certain user to be shown, so it shouldn't be hard to get that up. Another thing is, how would the themes be sorted? By name, or by number of downloads? Name would probably be best, and then create a separate "Stats" page, containing most downloads overall, and most downloads by a particular user.
At some point, there's supposed to be an official Rockbox theme site that will host all the themes. Scorche commented on IRC about my theme site (mainly, that a few non-CC-by-SA themes had slipped in) and said that the official theme site would be up last weekend. In any event, an official site has been planned since around December, so if/when it comes up, I'm not sure which one will be used most.
Ads. On thing's certain, there won't be any on the theme site. Even if there were, it'd have to be in either the header or the footer, and I didn't design the site to include them. However, I'm wondering about ads on this site. There aren't enough people visiting the site to generate the $10 a month needed for me to get any money, and Chitika is apparently selling my email address somehow my Chitika email address got out, as I've received 15 phishing messages to the email I dedicated to Chitika emails. Some of the emails even include emails of other users who follow the same pattern of chitika@domain.com. I've gotten some money from donations, and think I can probably survive off of them.




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Hi Chris,
Our systems engineers have been working to check on the security of our servers and databases, and so far there has been no signs of a compromise of any kind.
Chitika does NOT sell publisher user information.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:07 am
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