Update:Remora Feedback/Alpha Feedback Fixed

Remora Alpha Feedback

This is the feedback for the Remora Alpha Preview we fixed / dealt with, for reference.

fligtar's comments

• The sidebar still doesn't show the active page with a gray background (li class="selected") (wenzel)
  • fixed --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• Home is listed on both the top menu and the side menu. It seems a little strange and would be more appropriate to only be on the top menu.
  • That was fixed with the introduction of breadcrumbs. --wenzel 10:24, 16 January 2007 (PST)
• Having the search box at the bottom is too annoying. I don't want to have to scroll down to search. I also think there should be a search box somewhere on every page, as before the reskinning. AMO search doesn't suck now (hopefully) so we should make sure it's used instead Google on site:addons.mozilla.org which is how I currently find things. (bug 365918)
  • I fixed this. We have a search box on top of every page now. Bug closed. --wenzel 15:48, 12 January 2007 (PST)

clouserw's comments

• the language list in the footer should select the language I'm currently browsing in, not always "English (US)" -- will fix. wenzel -- is fixed. wenzel 09:59, 3 January 2007 (PST)
• on /addons/display, there is no way to see a single review without clicking "see all reviews" -- will fix. wenzel -- fixed. wenzel 12:27, 3 January 2007 (PST)
• when adding a review, the "rating" can be any positive number -- will fix. wenzel -- fixed. wenzel 13:31, 3 January 2007 (PST)
• When a user creates an account, they only see a "created successfully" flash. When they try to login, it says they have to confirm their account first, but it never says how. -- will fix. wenzel
  • is fixed. We display a much nicer page now. --wenzel 10:24, 16 January 2007 (PST)
• on the /addons/display page, the "bad trip" link does nothing
  • it's gone now, until we see a need for it. --wenzel 18:50, 16 January 2007 (PST)
• If there are no addons in a category, an unfriendly/unstyled message is flashed, and the user is redirected to the front page. (bug 365853)
  • maybe these category links should not even be displayed if they don't carry any add-ons. --wenzel 20:59, 2 January 2007 (PST)
  • This is fixed now: The message is still flashed like this, but empty categories are not shown anywhere anymore. If somebody sees this message, they changed URLs by hand. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)

wenzel's comments

• Add-on lists (like search) don't say "version" before the number, while featured add-ons while browsing a single category do. -- will fix. wenzel -- fixed. wenzel 14:35, 5 January 2007 (PST)
• The addon display page doesn't show the latest version by default, unlike the search and recommended addons page. -- fixed. wenzel 15:13, 5 January 2007 (PST)
• Since an alpha version still comes with a few 404 errors, if shouldn't be the default cake page (bug 358098) -- fixed. wenzel 16:57, 8 January 2007 (PST)
• Browse Add-ons page is kind of unfriendly and doesn't quite say what it is/does.
  • I made this a little less painful for now. Further improvements gladly accepted ;) --wenzel 10:24, 16 January 2007 (PST)
• Developer usernames link to different places atm (URLs or nonexistent pages); we need a user info page and have them link there.
  • fixed, we have a user info page now and the names link there. --wenzel 18:50, 16 January 2007 (PST)

xeen's comments

• When browsing by category I don't know which category I am in ("Subscribe to this Category" isn't useful either. What about 'Subscribe to "XYZ"'?) (sancus)
• Categories with only 1 extension/theme directly link to the theme, which is confusing (wenzel)
  • This is fixed: browsing was refactored; the pages have a headline now, among other things. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• "Other Add-ons" only lists extension names but doesn't offer a link to "traditional" browsing with summaries.
  • fixed. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• First page should explain what Add-Ons are before offering one. Experienced users can skip the explanation and scroll down, but my mum should read what extensions are anyway before. (fixed -- wenzel)
• I don't see any developer link or page where I can upload/manage my extensions/themes (not yet implemented?)
  • fligtar's implementing this. --wenzel 18:50, 16 January 2007 (PST)

dria's comments

• User account creation needs some UE love, but I suspect you already know that. fixed in SVN r1464. A much nicer confirmation page is now shown. --wenzel 15:45, 12 January 2007 (PST)

reed's comments

• http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/addons/browse looks very ugly; also, the options should be plural (Extensions and Themes) fixed in SVN r1463. Descriptions are now shown. Not perfect yet, but no big pain anymore at least. --wenzel 15:45, 12 January 2007 (PST)

markpeak's comments (from blog)

• Some extensions that have both Mozilla and Firefox version can’t be distinguished from each other. See example: http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/addons/display/60 I fixed this.--wenzel 15:45, 12 January 2007 (PST)

max's comments (from blog)

• No RSS 1.0 feeds
  • That's true. Is there a common reason to require RSS 1.0? -- wenzel 15:01, 5 January 2007 (PST)

Myk's comments (from blog)

• As with the current site, the search field is below the fold. (no scrolling should be required). -- mentioned by fligtar above. wenzel 14:59, 5 January 2007 (PST)
• The Register and Login links are separated by vertical bars, but the Home, Browse, Search, and Discussions links are separated by dots, so at first I thought the latter were breadcrumbs, and I was confused about why Search was underneath Browse. Since they’re not breadcrumbs, it’s probably better to separate them by bars. fixed: We now have bread crumbs just like m.com --wenzel 15:27, 12 January 2007 (PST)
• “Login” should probably be the verb “Log In”, since “Register” is a verb. fixed. wenzel 11:41, 10 January 2007 (PST)

dolske's comments (from blog)

• The home page is a bit disorienting. Lots of text, and the most visually prominent stuff tends to be around the “featured extension,” which almost certainly isn’t what I’m looking for and is constantly changing. Something strong and static that lets me know “this is AMO” would be helpful.
  • We put the "what are add-ons?" text on top now. Hope that helps with this issue. -- wenzel 14:59, 5 January 2007 (PST)
• Speaking of categories, I don’t see anything that identifies what category (section) I’m looking at. -- mentioned by xeen above. wenzel 14:59, 5 January 2007 (PST)
• How is browsing an extension category going to work? There seems to only be a limited subset of extensions on the preview site, so it’s hard to tell. It looks like a category page has 1 major featured extension, 2 minor featured extensions, and then just a list of other extension titles. It’s a bit hard to browse the current AMO, but a big block of title links seems too condensed.
  • With the recent refactoring of the browse pages, this should be fixed. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)

Gijs' (Hannibal's) comments

• Author links on recommended add-ons page are 404s. I don't see 404s however I mentioned that author links need to be fixed above. wenzel 11:26, 10 January 2007 (PST)
• Extension pages have both a cut-off italic summary, and a full summary. Shouldn't the italic thing be scrapped? I don't really see the use of the duplicate text. Mentioned by xeen above, sorry. GijsKruitbosch 01:05, 10 January 2007 (PST)
• There are small 'medals' next to extensions on the category pages. However, they don't have tooltips, are not links, and don't resurface on the actual addon page. What do they mean (and can we make that more clear in the actual addons UI)?
  • They meant "recommended" but were removed for now. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• Could we sort categories, so it becomes easier to find something specific? Right now there's just unsorted lists of about 12-15 items, which is not very easy to use.
  • Now they are. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• The "New and Updated" list on the "Extensions" page is missing the corner background.
  • Thanks, fixed. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)

Dao's comments

• Old URLs don't work, e.g. http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/firefox/398/ vs. http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/addons/display/398. I don't see the purpose of /addons (it's already in the subdomain) and /display.
  • The URL redirects are already filed as a bug (362526) -- and was mentioned by clouserw before. --wenzel

DonGato's comments

• The search should be at the top of each page and less prominent. Maybe where register and login links are. see fligtar's section above. wenzel
• There is no information about the last update of an extension (at least in the home page and most probably in the newest page as with current AMO, but I can't say as this page is not available in the preview). This is an important information while browsing extensions.
  • All Add-on lists are now similar, and all of them show the latest version number and release date. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)

pascalc's comments

• http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/fr displays the page with an English UI while http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/fr/ (ending slash) works. (wenzel)
  • I fixed the appropriate regex. This works now. --wenzel 10:40, 16 January 2007 (PST)

Laurens Holst's comments (from blog)

• autodetect language based on browsers language settings.
  • I implemented this already, it is in the trunk. --wenzel 10:24, 16 January 2007 (PST)

RenegadeX's comments

It's hard to test the Preview site properly with the limited # of addons currently added, but I 2nd everything already said on this page. Have you guys learnt nothing over 3+ revisions of AMO? Users are tearing out their hair crying, "All I want to do is find a specific addon or browse the mass of addons quickly and easily" - and yet with each AMO revision, it continues to be a frustrating experience:

• Why is the Search box STILL at the bottom of the pages and not on every page - instead of being in a standard location at the top - so that no scrolling or clicking is required in order to access it? Enough people voiced their opinion when it was introduced in v2 - and I've yet to see anyone agree with AMO and say it's better on the bottom. This is absolutely ridiculous.
  • This is fixed in trunk and was intended since the beginning. Sorry for the confusion. --wenzel 10:07, 17 January 2007 (PST)
• The site isn't written in Hebrew or Arabic, and yet the site layout is 'reversed'. I can't imagine the reason for suddenly breaking convention and moving the Menu over to the right. (hint: Menus are normally presented on the left in the Western world because we tend to look there first before moving our eyes to the right..)
  • Don't worry. This was fixed in the trunk recently: The navigation sidebar is on the left now. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• What's with the layout of the Category pages (which you arrive at via 'Browse By Category').. 1 seemingly-random addon is prominent(full-width) at the top, with ONLY 2 ITEMS shown below it, sharing the horizontal space (rather than being all the same size, one below the other). What's the little blue-&-yellow icon by the lower 2 and why does the first item not have one? Why bother with an 'Other Add-ons' box at the bottom containing the names of other addons from the same category - after all, aren't I 'Browsing'?? There is no consistency here, nor logic, it seems.
  • This is fixed; the browsing page that was published on the alpha page was not done yet. In the trunk, this is now a list similar to the "recommended" page. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• As 'Gijs' mentioned, the Category listing pages (such as 'Extensions') now display the categories in a seemingly-random jumble, rather than alphabetically, which is how it used to be. (Could you guys be any more obtuse?) To clarify, the old way was sorted alphabetically but read left-to-right across rows - better yet would be 3 alphabetically-sorted top-down columns with column separators between them.
  • Thanks for your input on how you would like the columns to be formatted. We agreed that this would be a good idea and implemented it this way. This is fixed in the trunk. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• It seems (on the Recommended Addons page, anyhow) that the default # of results per page view is 5 - which is far too low. (It used to be 10, what was wrong with that?). And why even waste time with an option of 2 results per page?
  • Thanks, good point. I changed these defaults to 10 and removed the "2" option in the pagination component which does this feature for us. --wenzel 12:14, 17 January 2007 (PST)
• Broken: The menu's "Find Similar Add-ons" items are currently linked incorrectly - they point to the Category, but not to the 'type'(1=Ext, 2=Theme), so nothing is found. ex: the Extensions category 'Search Tools' is currently http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/addons/browse/13 - but it should be "../browse/1/13"
  • links are fixed now. Additionally we are showing all relevant categories there, because this will possibly be of greater use for the user than just seeing a reduced amount of categories there. --wenzel 19:59, 18 January 2007 (PST)
• What happened to 'more previews' link/text that used to be below an extension/theme's preview image? Gone or not yet implemented? Please implement and re-link the image (v2 removed this feature for some reason).
  • Yes, that will show up again. It's on my list. --wenzel
  • I added the preview browsing feature now. --wenzel 14:37, 23 January 2007 (PST)