Out of date notification for plugins.jquery.com

[jcubic]

I couldn't find plugins.jquery.com repo so I'm adding issue here.

There should be notification on each project that the plugins are not up to date, on my project page there is version 0.8.8 and no indication that the repository is not up to date.

People probably know but the site still showing up in search results, (it show as 3rd link in google) it probably don't matter much for this case (it show home page and github link as first and second link) but people may search for something else and find the jQuery page and use out of date code.

[dmethvin]

The main page at http://plugins.jquery.com/ explains that it's no longer supported but that's easy to miss. Ideally we'd just shut it down since several years ago we started advising that people use npm. I suppose we could try shutting it down and see who/what breaks. Or perhaps we can add a really big obnoxious message to each page.

[mgol]

Can we put up a robots.txt that would prevent the plugins site from being indexed? -- Michał Gołębiowski

[coliff]

It'd make sense to remove the link to the plugins.jquery.com site from the top navbar. Shall I open a PR?

[mgol]

@coliff I think that's a good idea, a PR would be welcome.

[jcubic]

I've notice that the download button open github releases page, I don't know if this is how it work when I first created the issue.

Also to remove the page from search engine, you need to use web console at least in google, and return 404 or block in robots.txt so it don't get indexed again. Don't know if this is possible for other search engines. Maybe removing the page entirely will be the only option, it maybe at least return 404 error code but still show the page or redirect to github.