Update:Remora Feedback

Alpha Feedback - http://preview.addons.mozilla.org

This page is for consolidation of the feedback on the new AMO Alpha. If you're more comfortable filing bugs, you're welcome to do that instead.

See also the announcement on the Mozilla webdev blog.

fligtar's comments

I like the overall look, but I have a few comments about certain aspects:

• 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)
• 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.
• The sidebar still doesn't show the active page with a gray background (li class="selected")
• The discussion header/footer is noticeably different.
• This may be a vanilla bug, not sure: "Comment by made 1 day ago days ago"
• Discussions show a CakePHP favicon for me

clouserw's comments

• Old URLs should redirect into the new format so we don't get 404s (bug 362526)
• 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)
• Pages should validate
• 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 the /addons/display page, the "bad trip" link does nothing
• 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)
• Discussions can be started that aren't related to an addon (just click "discussions" in the header, then start a new topic)
• 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
• The "More..." link under "Popular Extensions" on the browse page goes nowhere.

wenzel's comments

• Browse Add-ons page is kind of unfriendly and doesn't quite say what it is/does.
• Browse Category page has a "more" link for new and updated add-ons which leads to the new add-ons RSS feed (atm it's even a 404); it should maybe lead to a new page showing the new add-ons for this category only.
• Browse Add-ons page could use category specific RSS feeds.
• 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)
• Search algorithm is improvable: The binary matching creates many hits with the same score in spite of their obviously different relevance.
• Developer usernames link to different places atm (URLs or nonexistent pages); we need a user info page and have them link there.
• 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)
• "find similar add-ons" sometimes shows different categories with the same name? (example)

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 (sancus)
• "Other Add-ons" only lists extension names but doesn't offer a link to "traditional" browsing with summaries.
• Extension summaries should be limited to a certain length so that we don't have 2 pages description when browsing extensions. I kind-of see this when looking at the extension's page where the same description appears twice. Is this supposed to be "long" and "short" description?
• I don't see any developer link or page where I can upload/manage my extensions/themes (not yet implemented?)
• 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)

dria's comments

• Seems to be a bug at [1] when not logged in. At very least there should be a significantly friendlier message suggesting the user log in :)
• User account creation needs some UE love, but I suspect you already know that.

reed's comments

• http://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/addons/browse looks very ugly; also, the options should be plural (Extensions and Themes)

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

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.
• “Login” should probably be the verb “Log In”, since “Register” is a verb.

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)
• 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.
• 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)

jMax's comments (from blog)

• The add-on licenses should be exposed, so the user knows what he's about to install.