Opera Add-ons

Catalog update!

By Torgeir Lorange Østbytorgeilo. Wednesday, April 18, 2012 2:57:59 PM

You might have noticed a slight change on addons.opera.com

Half a year of changes were released yesterday! Here are a few highlights apart from the completely obvious, and a bit more technical than what you can find elsewhere:

URLs no longer contain extension version numbers. This should eliminate a lot of dead links pointing to older versions of extensions.
Extensions are no longer filtered based on which browser you use. Everything is listed anyway, but you might see a message telling you that you need a certain version of Opera for an extension to work properly (for example Opera Next for upcoming features). This should also eliminate more dead links.
The ratings are now weighted against an average (Bayesian rating), providing a more sane ranking of the top rated extensions.
A few languages now receive special treatment in the search engine, for improved matching. The languages are Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, and German. In order to benefit from this, you need to change the filter language (the drop-down with the globe button) to one of the mentioned ones. (We are still working on improving things, here.)

For extension developers:

You can now attach any license to your extensions!
You can edit the name of your extensions as long as they are not public yet.

More good stuff and smaller improvements are to come soonish

Enjoy!

Extensions on Opera MobileIncreased focus on Opera extensions and ending support for Unite applications and Widgets

Comments

Eli Mitchellcyberstream # Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:40:29 PM

I like how the screenshots are displayed now.

I also like the updated issues section. Maybe it would be better if the extension developer could manually mark problems as fixed, kind of like the issue tracker on Github.

Zotlan # Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:49:07 PM

Will we be able to comment on reviews at some point in the near(ish) future?

PS: A place to report spam reviews would be nice also.

tcubetcubed # Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:46:41 PM

The issue with large extensions not installing over a slower network is still present. For example the Gismeteo weather forecast speeddial extension. Not sure if it is Opera browser issue but it breaks the experience for less technical people.

timmi # Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:16:58 PM

+1 for comments on reviews. Also please email the reviewer that the extension author has commented his review, so he can notice it.

+1 for marking issues as fixed. Its better now that only issues are displayed for the actual version, but also issues from older versions could apply to the actual. For this, a fixed flag could really help to improve the overall view.

ouzowtfouzoWTF # Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:54:20 PM

See my comment on the Choose Opera blog.

Mağruf ÇolakoğluZAHEK # Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:10:18 AM

commentd function will be nice if it inform us as a new comments.

QuHno # Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:16:35 AM

The ratings are now weighted against an average (Bayesian rating), providing a more sane ranking of the top rated extensions.

It seems that it needed some time to stabilize, the first days most of the top rated extensions were those with 1-5 ratings

+1 on comments to the reviews
+1 for a bug management (best with comments)
+1 for being informed on new comments, imho best inside the "latest activities" page to keep the mailbox clean.

Uncle MickMickeyjoe-Irl # Thursday, April 19, 2012 7:02:39 PM

Originally posted by Zotlan:

PS: A place to report spam reviews would be nice also.

You could click on the username and then use the 'Report' button on the users about page. Bit clunky, but that's how I report spam when I find it.

Zotlan # Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:35:47 PM

Originally posted by Uncle Mick:

You could click on the username and then use the 'Report' button on the users about page. Bit clunky, but that's how I report spam when I find it.

The problem is that sometimes the user has already been reported for spam on the forum or his blog and been removed. However, removing the user from my.opera does not remove his spam from the extension reviews, but it does remove the possibility of reporting the user for being a spam spouting little tit.

Uncle MickMickeyjoe-Irl # Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:54:11 PM

That is annoying. I know that with comment spam it can take time for comments to be deleted after the user is removed. But I guess add-ons are a seperate system.