Is the old “search engine” page still around somewhere?

I check the add-ons page every week (cuz, yes I *am* that anal-retentive), and, with a date, I know how far I need to go, until I’m looking at stuff I saw the previous week. Without a date, there’s no way to tell.

I would imagine it wouldn’t be that hard to place a date field on the main page, so that each entry had a date — then, sorting would be more meaningful, as well.

Just for the record, I’m not being defensive. Let’s stick to the issues and try not to introduce emotive language, OK?

Your original reply to me appeared to be attempting to reduce the weight of my argument by demonstrating that far fewer people were dissatisfied than I suggested, while not addressing the issues raised. That’s all I was responding to.

Posting rationales and, to my eye, a round of self congratulations doesn’t amount to much when so many people are clearly unhappy and pointing out the reasons why.

It’s been two weeks since the AMO team announced the release and have remained silent to the wide-ranging criticism since then. That’s poor PR, at best.

We all screw up at times – it’s how you respond that’s critical.

I didn’t make any value judgement about the the stats or the criticisms – I measured and reported on the only link cited. Don’t be so defensive – you aren’t the poor devil getting flamed on your own blog by an angry mob (and neither am I this time.)

For my part, I’m happy that Basil and crew are publicly posting the rationale for their changes. Regardless of whether or not they did great work, royally screwed up or some of both, the information (and the capturing of people’s reactions) is still useful within Mozilla and for other FLOSS projects.