597401 - "Related add-ons" on add-on detail

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Roberto Bouzout (tito)]

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Hello, 

This is an enhancement. I want to request to be able to make a list of "related add-ons" on my add-ons detail page.

See: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/86093/

The idea is to show related add-ons as in "Often used with…" but picked by me, manually, without limit.

This is cool because:

 - Will enhance the navigation of the site, by allowing users to see similar add-ons in a non automated way.
 - Will expose other add-ons that may do or complement the functionality of my extension, or maybe the user is trying to find some related but not my.
 - Will remove the crazy redirect to add-ons from same site ( this happens when you build the list of related add-on manually with lists in your add-on's description )
 - Will have better standar presentation for users.

Implementation:

 - I think this list should be managed by the extension author exclusive because:
 - - maybe can be abused by other extension authors or users.
 - - in some situations maybe I don't want to link to other extensions that cause conflicts with my add-on
 - - the add-on undo the feature that my add-on is adding
 - - the add-on has poor performance 
 - - Simply I don't like/support the idea/implementation/add-on or author of the linked add-on.
 - - If lot of users mark as related lots of extensions the list lose the point.
 - - if lot of users mark as related add-ons a lots of extensions maybe you ending implementing some filtering and lose my point of "manually picked".

Regards


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Roberto Bouzout (tito)]

Forget to mention that the original proposal is here
https://forums.addons.mozilla.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=698&start=0

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/