615139 - Add-on 404 pages should be more informative

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101128 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: 

Here is an example: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3002/ this is "Stop Autoplay" add-on, it's last version was uploaded to AMO at 20th of sept.
Then it just disappeared with no explanations why.
There are also other examples, like http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/3698/ (this disappeared long ago, but still - the reasons are unknown for users).
Add some kind of notes on why the extensions were removed from AMO, if you delete them from there.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

In both of those cases, the developer chose to make the add-on inactive. But you're right about these pages not being clear about the reason. I'm not sure if this has been considered for the current redesign, so I'm keeping it open.

Comment 2

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

I'm fine with being a little more specific:

"This add-on has been removed by its author."

"This add-on has been disabled by an administrator."

and then using the current default for any other reason (incomplete, etc.)

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Add-on authors and admins should have some more pages here too.

Comment 4

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

We can use the standard message box if it looks decent on the page.

It's worth noting that PHP is still serving up our 404 pages in production.  I'll see if we can switch that.  Either way though, this will be there when we can use it.

Comment 5

[Andy McKay]

https://github.com/jbalogh/zamboni/commit/b87c33c26beeac247742fbc9e5e97a2c79339b69

Comment 6

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

QA:  You'll need to be on /z/ to see this

Comment 7

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> QA:  You'll need to be on /z/ to see this

I didn't have to do that.

verified that 
* admin-disabled add-ons show https://addons.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bwfb/
* user-disabled add-ons show https://addons.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/addon/he-heha-ha-182409/ 

adding junk characters to the URL loads the remora page https://addons.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/addon/he-heha-ha-182411/

Comment 8

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

Attachment: post-fix screenshot