Tobias Bieniek

- https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/8232 added a new `crate_downloads` table, which is supposed to replace the `crates.downloads` column soon. this was done for performance reasons to reduce the amount of bloat in the...

- as mentioned in the last update, https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/8295 is going to disable writes to the `crates.downloads` column. we will keep the column around for now to avoid unnecessary schema churn,...

- once https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/8233 is merged and deployed it will remove the `crates.downloads` column. please us the `crate_downloads` table instead.

- https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/8484 will introduce a new **experimental** `default_versions` table with a mapping from crates to their "default" version, that will be shown by the frontend and used in e.g. reverse...

are you aware that we already have a system to follow crate updates when you're logged in? or is the main request here that we should send those update emails?

@CPerezz any reason for reopening this issue? did I understand correctly that this can be closed?

> What user interaction is being emulated by the helper? I assume that its effectively clicking on a submit button, right? that, or pressing Enter in a form input >...

do I understand correctly that this issue is meant as a sort of high-level "this is roughly what we have in mind" discussion? I'm asking because this issue mentions a...

the project has been deprecated with https://github.com/conduit-rust/conduit/pull/117, so I'll go ahead and close this issue now :)

there is no such thing built into the addon at this point and the addons isn't actually that larger either so I'm not sure if it would actually be worth...