Agreed.

@Mozilla

I bet you 5 bucks you won’t make the next deadline if it’s in March of 2007.

I’m an extension developer caught pants down by this site update (just so you know where I’m coming from: I haven’t followed the site update process, and released a new version of my extension early during the site freeze — therefore I’m most affected by all subsequent delays). And yes, there /are/ things I’m not happy with in the new incarnation as well.

But *come* *on*! There really is waaay too much whining in here — guys, get a grip! Do you really, truly, honestly think you would’ve managed this significantly better with the same resources? Or do you think the developers here are squarely ill-willed? Or at least mildly not interested in AMO? Come now.

Instead of whining, let’s give the AMO team a nice, good round of applause for their efforts, let’s hope for the best, and most importantly, let’s allow them the peace of mind to fix all current issues: unless you’re wildly pessimistic, you’d agree they’re all doing their best to make it thorough a tough site update — and upgrade.

And also, please don’t sandbox all the extensions while you review them one by one — you should first review them, and only then make the results of the reviews into effect.

Now instead of having perfectly good or new extensions (even already released) at the end of the most popular list cause of fewer downloads and fewer updates to cause automatic downloads, they are hidden away in an if you find this section don’t bother cause they haven’t been tested or just aren’t any good section.

If you rely on average users to be able to even find them, not to mention take time to, test, rate and nominate for public, before actually reviewing and adding to regular public section, you might as well forget them.

That will only reinforce the existing and most popular extensions, not serve to promote others. I thought promote other less popular extensions was one of the goals.