I think that is up to you. Currently there is no line.
I would be happy even if some of the code would be quickly browsed through and the most obvious mess would be rejected. A review that basic would be better than nothing.
Some people say add-ons are built to do what you need. Yes, that's right. But in what cost? Yes, a query to the database can provide you the info you want, but a raw query everywhere is good? safe? If you are thirsty, it's not a good idea to drink a bottle of alcohol or poison. Yes, they are liquid and will Fix thirst, but soon or late will kill you. (there is no other choice out there? ask, pay, wait, and then get and use and enjoy and sleep the night calm and don't think about if your site will be up when you wake up next morning!)
I stopped drinking poison for a while now but still suffering from the drops that I drank in that time, and going to spend time and money to finally survive!@Dadparvar Give me an example of the poison you recently drank. I'll tell you why the economics didn't make sense for the developer.
@Aayush you are beating up a dead horse here. Where in this thread is a complaint about add-ons costing money and more sophisticated add-ons cost more money? We all know that. This isn’t about little effort and little money. The reason this thread was started was to make the point that we board admins don’t want to waste time and money for stuff that breaks the boards we own or doesn’t even work in the first place. When @Alfa1 said he wasted about 5000 bucks for nothing I can really sense what that means since I wasted money myself not as high but I did. I pay 150.- bucks for a year’s license easily for add-ons from good developers or pay directly to them for custom work. Some are humble, some not. What I don’t want to do is to buy 10 add-ons for 15.- bucks and trash them all after another because in the end none works properly. If there were approved/labeled as premium add-ons that actually give you at least a feeling of safety, consistency and bug-minimization I am sure that the majority would pay triple the prizes. And there are add-ons of that class. And those who only want to ride for free can and do that and should not complain.
Sorry but I haven’t even read past THAT... you totally missed the point – and propose what the topic starter, many others in the thread and me explicitly do not want and have explained why.The point is, they aren't labeled as premium. It's upto you to buy them and try if it suits your needs. If it doesn't, simply leave a review, that it failed for you or whatever happened.
It's a community driven directory as of now. Wouldn't make sense for XenForo team to waste their resources to review individual addons and I wouldn't pay them for something like this.Sorry but I haven’t even read past THAT... you totally missed the point – and propose what the topic starter, many others in the thread and me explicitly do not want.
Business Idea!
I will start an addon curation and review service if 100 people like this post and are willing to pay $100/mo for the service.
Read the thread again. There were many ideas how an improvement over the current situation can be achieved in various degrees. And that is community driven. Making fun of that doesn’t suit the contributions so far. The current situation is at level zero. It does not have to be 1000 level up but 1 would be a good start.
People are more likely to use the system to complain rather than to provide feedback both ways. We’ve had lots of customers, most are satisfied, the ones that aren’t leave negative reviews - our specific audience doesn’t tend to leave reviews for a positive experience so ratings aren’t really the best metric for functionality.Isn't the addon rating system the best crowd-sourced review that's possible? Ok, people aren't reviewing code but they're still reviewing whether the app works as intended.
I firmly believe in this hypothesis that people who have negative experience leave a negative review and that is more likely to occur than a positive review. Can't understand why people are complaining about low quality addons having no negative reviews on them.People are more likely to use the system to complain rather than to provide feedback both ways. We’ve had lots of customers, most are satisfied, the ones that aren’t leave negative reviews - our specific audience doesn’t tend to leave reviews for a positive experience so ratings aren’t really the best metric for functionality.
Strongly support an update system being implemented by XenForo. It’d mean creating some kind of updating system that add-on developers have to implement for authenticated download of updates.I think once app/plugin updates from within the ACP is enabled as standard, similar to Wordpress and some of the plugin management systems here, then admins will be more likely to review apps positively as they can be solicited at the time of update and have a link to the review page for any app.
Currently the only way to review is consciously decide to head to a thread on a specific website and review it there, so very few people will do that for paid add ons that aren't hosted and distributed on XF.com. There's no central store or update page for all apps, with many devs emailing out updates to then be uploaded and installed manually. That needs to change.
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