Hi All!
The ply-importer will now support triangle-stripe indices meshes. This is a way to store memory when writing ply file. Unfortunately this feature was broken for years. And now we fixed that:

The new homepage for the Asset-Importer-Lib is online. You can find it at assimp.org . Currently, it is just a collection of links to find the right place for your requests.
Feel free to post any feedback!
Kim