Very long extension moderation process
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rejzor last edited by
@rudrick They refused to confirm my ProtonMail extension because it's "too basic" even though it does what is even physically possible with the given service. So I have to host it myself on my own webpage. And I'm using it daily because it does what no bookmark can do. But they somehow feel that it's not worthy enough to be handed over to other users officially. It's because of stuff like this why most developers don't even bother with Opera anymore. And the long extension moderation process is not helping either. And when you have a dying extensions ecosystem you may just as well stop bothering entirely. If time has proven again and again is that you need a working ecosystem. Android has one, iOS has one, Firefox has one, Chrome has one. Internet Explorer didn't have one which is why most of the people stopped using it. BadaOS didn't have good ecosystem and it's now dead. SymbianOS had one but they weren't investing in it and it died. What makes Opera think they have the upper hand by not supporting ANY kind of developers who are willing to spend their time on their platform? Be it my "shitty" "too simple" extension or someone's super complex one which in the end both don't get published because "reasons". But who am I teaching Opera the working business model, right?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
You can post in https://www.reddit.com/r/operaextensions/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/ for now if you want to let people know about your extensions and where to download them.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@burnout426 said in Very long extension moderation process:
You can post in https://www.reddit.com/r/operaextensions/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/ for now if you want to let people know about your extensions and where to download them.
Or, if absolutely necessary, we could do something like https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/extensions.
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iamsenthilprabu last edited by
I created 8 add-ons for firefox. chrome and opera at regular interval. I tried submitting my add-ons to all three browsers. Firefox approves in 10 mins. Chrome approves in less than 1 hour. But Opera? God knows. Submitted long back. still under moderation without any feedback. Only one got approved magically. https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/language-transliteration/
Also I stopped submitting my add-ons to opera. because its going to be in moderation forever.
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tomatocash last edited by
I'm awaiting moderation during 1 month! Although my chrome extension was submitted in 30 minutes. Why so long, Opera? What century do you live? Manual moderation???...
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@tomatocash Yes, as already explained here, extensions in Opera store are manually reviewed most of the times. That's why you don't usually see fake extensions like in Chrome store.
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tomatocash last edited by
@leocg but more than a month?! I will soon release a second version of my extension
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg said in Very long extension moderation process:
@tomatocash Yes, as already explained here, extensions in Opera store are manually reviewed most of the times. That's why you don't usually see fake extensions like in Chrome store.
Would you say, that the quality of the Opera extensions is better than the Mozilla extensions?
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@leocg said in Very long extension moderation process:
@extensions Don't know, I would need to compare them to say something.
Imo the quality on Mozilla and Opera is similar. The important difference: the moderation on Mozilla takes 5 minutes, on Opera many days. Mozilla checks the extensions automatically, in some cases manual checks happen additionally. That's the way to go.
The current situation at Opera is just unreasonable. It seems to be, that the Opera management is not interested in extension developers. Otherwise the situation would have been already improved instead of just talking about it. Who is responsible for extensions in the management?
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A Former User last edited by
There's new updated & working (+ m.youtube) version on Github for some weeks but Addons page not updating https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/web-panel/
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg My add-ons info:
DamoPrice – AliExpress Joom Pandao Price Tracker
Slug: 7ea25d14cb413cc8ec5c28ebd456c3f98b2b65b5
Developer: damodeals
ID: ejcenhhkfipeoikddpnjgckfmgkopaof
Last message: DamoPrice – AliExpress Joom Pandao Price Tracker v1.1.6 was submitted. Awaiting moderation.post this in here?
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kodehawker last edited by
Mine passed moderation yesterday. Usually it takes a couple of days, but this time several weeks.
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dessant last edited by
I have been waiting to get a reply from reviewers for any of the submitted extensions for 9 months now. They are available for Firefox and Chrome.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clear-browsing-data/ -
verifiedfirst last edited by
I have been waiting for my Opera add-on to be reviewed since October (7 months ago). I keep uploading new versions as we release to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, but still no response to our initial Opera submission.
Opera, we have many Opera users who are asking for our Extension, can you provide any help here? Squeaky wheel gets the grease?
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A Former User last edited by
@verifiedfirst I'm sure you will get never an answer. Opera doesn't care about extension developers nor about this forum.
From time to time some random guy posts "We know we have to improve and are working on it". That's it. No improvement happens.
