I know the next issue many people have with this system is lack of communication to the developer about their indexing status. I hope to address that soon as well. Once we get a bit more comfortable with the current set of rules, we want to make the specific reasons why a page might not be eligible to be very clear. Unfortunately there will always be a bit of mystery to how the system works, as we have malicious actors every day trying to reverse engineer our systems to figure out how to get their spam and malware to show up in front of real people.
I think it would be extremely helpful to have an “indexed / not indexed” status tag on the project page alongside the green “published” tag, along with the reason for non-indexing and steps to resolve it independently. This would reduce a lot of frustration and significantly decrease the volume of support requests and forum posts.
I know many people discussing the indexing issues online often float around the idea that we should charge for publishing like Steam. We will not be doing this.
Does this also apply to the “refundable deposit” model I proposed and discussed in this thread? Just so I know, so I avoid bringing it up again in the future. Thanks!