Serious trouble on Extensions site

The Extensions site has and is causing serious trouble.

The lesser problem is that many links to it are down (giving "Connection 
reset" error), including its "Contact Us" link; hence the message here. 
The main site "Do more" link is down.

The big problem is that the site is advertising an update to the English 
language dictionary, for v3.3 Writer users, via the automatic mechanism 
for keeping extensions up-to-date. However, what gets downloaded is a 
"Khmer" dictionary (as of 2011-05-10) which then appears in the 
Extension Manager's list. The previous English dictionary disappears 
from that list, and cannot be found by some other routines (like 
hyphenation).

This could be a serious problem if the statistics are right. The main 
Extensions site can be reached through the main site 
"Contribute"/"programming"/"repository" link chain. A search from there 
on "Khmer" shows a Khmer dictionary with over 80K downloads. A different 
Khmer dictionary shows a reasonable 3K downloads. We may have 80K users 
out there who will have to delete the Khmer dictionary to get rid of its 
problems. They will not be pleased.

Sorry for posting a non-dev problem here, but at least somebody who 
reads this list should know whose cage to rattle.

-- 
/tj/

T. J. Frazier
(TJFrazier on OO.o)

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