425481 - Need "Recently Updated" & "New Add-ons" views

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[WildcatRay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008032705 Minefield/3.0pre Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008032705 Minefield/3.0pre Firefox/3.0 ID:2008032705

Users cannot easily find recently updated add-ons as the link that was present in the previous version is not present in the new version. This forces the user to search on each add-on they want to update.

Reproducible: Always

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Advanced users cannot find newly updated add-ons so as to archive on their computers for backup and for installing add-ons globally (in program installation extensions folder).

Comment 2

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

It's https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:all?show=10&sort=updated&exp=on

Attention: Experimental add-ons included

How I got it:
Home page > Popular - show all (in the right sidebar) > Date

Comment 3

[klint]

Couldn't there be a 3rd "Last updated" section similar to- and under the "Recommended" and "Popular" sections on the right side of the AMO homepage?
So that, with a glance on the home page, the updated extensions can be seen easily.

Note: there seems to be already an RSS feed on the home page for recently updated extensions (and another for recommended ones).

Comment 4

[WildcatRay]

The point is that "Newly updated add-ons" were shown and available on the old AMO page and should not have been excluded on the new one.

Comment 5

[Basil Hashem [:baz]]

We need two different feeds & views.

1) For new add-ons
2) For updated add-ons

Comment 6

[Ngamer01]

I disagree.  With the last version of AMO, I've had to use eight different RSS feeds to keep up with new/updated add-ons.  With 3.2, I only have to use only two feeds.  Why?  It should be obvious which add-ons are new.  New/Latest add-ons are tagged as Experimental.

Instead of splitting the latest add-ons up, why not just tag new add-ons with some kind of new icon in front of the add-on name?  And for RSS feeds, you can just (NEW) in front of the Add-on name.  Then the next time that new add-on is updated, it loses it's NEW tag from the main view and RSS feed.

I don't want to go back to having to use multiple RSS feeds when two AMO feeds do the job for me now.

Comment 8

[WildcatRay]

Just to clarify this bug for others (and if my memory serves me right), the previous iteration of the AMO front page had a short list of the new/most recently updated add-ons along with a link that ran a preprogrammed search for listing add-ons based on their most recent posting date (i.e., new and/or updated). This new iteration has no such link and/or list and no obvious way to get such a list. Users are forced to either know that they can click on the "View All" link under the list of "Most Popular" list because they will then be able to re-sort that list of add-ons by "Date" or they would have to search for individual add-ons that they know have recently been updated.

While many users may not archive their add-ons or otherwise need to see such a list, for those of us who do, AMO went from good to very bad when that old link was not carried over to the new AMO.

For anyone who installs add-ons globally, they are greatly inconvenienced because they cannot install new or updated add-ons through the browser add-on manager. Globally-installed add-ons updated through the browser become profile-installed, instead.

Comment 9

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Per http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3343837#3343837 , we need to make sure that the RSS feeds behave as intended when the pages are being added.

Comment 10

[Scott Smith]

The ability to quickly and easily find information for recently updated add-ons is going to be very important for the release of FF3. The past has shown that a lot of users won't update to the newest version until they know that their must have extensions are compatible with the newest version of the software. for people with a lot of extensions (many of whom don't let FF check for updates automatically) a one quick link like the old "Recently Updated" one on the old version of AMO is essential. 

Comment 11

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Attachment: newest and updated views

This patch adds a "newest" and an "updated" view to the home page. It also adds an item to the new feed list on the left hand side. In addition, the existing global "newest" RSS feed now just forwards to that feed.

Note that in the browse list, the options bar has no button for changing to the "newest" sort order, but that's not an issue introduced by this bug and should be spun off if considered a problem.

Comment 12

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Attachment: revision 2

Adding: "updated" RSS feed link in the header of the homepage; CSS min-height to have enough space for the now longer side bar, at least in most cases.

Comment 13

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Attachment: revision 3

adding translation fallback for review link in home page header.

Comment 14

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Comment on attachment 320781 [details] [diff] [review]
revision 3

Looks good.

Comment 15

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

The fix is in r13112, l10n changes are in r13117 and r13119.

Comment 16

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED; checked Firefox/SeaMonkey/Sunbird/Thunderbird views.