487500 - Listing pages should show add-ons which are compatible with only one application

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Add-ons for thunderbird get reduced exposure because they get lost in the noise of add-ons which are both Fx and TB compatible.  It would be good for people who click a category browse link to see add-ons which are TB only by default with a checkbox to enable results across all applications.  

Example:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:1/cat:66?sort=popular

is dominated by Firefox add-ons which happen to support TB, and even the most popular TB privacy add-on can't hope to compete with Adblock.  Another reason to do this is many of the firefox add-ons which happen to be TB compatible have TB compatibility as an afterthought, reducing the quality of the experience.

Comment 1

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Let's see if we can address this with the updated search somehow.

Comment 2

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Dave-

This is another search requirement- let's chat this week.

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

This depends on the new search engine which jumped milestones.  ->5.0.9

Comment 4

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Bumping this - I want to first get the search working and in production.  This should be easy, but I may need to update things first.

Comment 5

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Nick,

Let's talk about this.  let's go through the sunbird/thunderbird/etc pages and see what we could change.  Not sure if this is 100% search related - but it could be.

Comment 6

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

FYI, this bug is similar to this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374890

Comment 7

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Attachment: v1

* I switched browse to use sphinx to fetch the data, since sphinx also keeps tabs on how many apps an addon works with
* I created a checkbox that is off by default - always looking for things that work for "Firefox" for example would be a bad thing, but for Thunderbird it's beneficial - we may want to have those act differently, but I'm hesitant to do one-offs unless absolutely necessary.
* We may want to use Sphinx to generate the "top lists" in the default browse pages, but again... only for Thunderbird maybe...

-d

Comment 8

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Comment on attachment 408439 [details] [diff] [review]
v1

Using search is good here and the checkbox is good.  It's not actually filtering for me, but it's probably my sphinx setup because I forgot how to restart it.

Comment 9

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Fixed in r54562

Comment 10

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

Reopening: AdBlock (and others) are still showing up on, e.g., https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:1/cat:66?show=20&only=on&sort=weeklydownloads

Comment 11

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

Verified FIXED; checked https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:1/cat:66?show=20&only=on&sort=weeklydownloads with/without JavaScript.