Very long extension moderation process
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A Former User last edited by
We finally received our response! Our extension got published. We don't exactly know what triggered it, but we thought, it would be fair to tell the good news too and not only complain when things don't work.
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A Former User last edited by
Waiting for two weeks. Mozilla approved my Firefox extension for less than one hour! It is like Opera just doesn't care.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@mgeffro I stayed tuned, but can't see any improvements. What's the current status?
Improvements could be:
- Reduce moderation time
- Showing the position in the moderation queue
- Giving the possibility to contact the moderators
All of this is possible. Please check Mozilla.
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A Former User last edited by
Also frustrated by Opera moderation waiting times? There are many other developers out there. Just follow us, we want to give the extension developers a voice! https://twitter.com/operaextension
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A Former User last edited by
My extensions are too good to upload for people to use - who thinks like that? -> Opera does.
I'm amazed how locked down browser Opera really is. But Chrome Web Store doesn't object to people what kind of color they want to wear today
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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?
