Very long extension moderation process
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tprockow Opera last edited by tnowak
Hi all,
to shorten publishing time and deal with the long moderation queue we will introduce soon auto-moderation process. With that change you will be able to release your extension quicker and gather feedback from real end users.
Right now we are in testing phase, so please help us to improve it and adjust for yours and ours needs.
Please submit your extension or update existing one and you will see if your extension will pass auto-moderation. While preparing extension please keep in mind acceptance-criteria and give us as much information as possible like link to privacy policy or license. Please use as less permissions as possible, rethink if you really need eg. access to all data on all websites. We will calculate reputation points for your extension and content of manifest file is a part of that calculation.When internal testing of auto-moderation will pass our expectations, we will make it publicly available during incoming weeks.
Thank you for your support.
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A Former User last edited by
@tprockow That's very good to know.
I went ahead and tried going through the upload process but always got into the queue. I went as far as deleting my extension entry and trying with a new one (since it was never published in the first place, anyway).
An annoyance: the displayed warnings are really off the mark and can easily be bypassed.
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As in, just because I have an svg in my extension, it complained about
http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
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Because I'm using Rollup as a bundler and support other browsers, I don't have
chrome.notifications
directly in the bundle — it shows up asconst t = (chrome || browser); t.notifications.create(...)
, so Opera complains that I'm not using any of the requested permissions. Adding achrome.notifications.get || chrome.storage.local.get;
anywhere is enough to suppress it. -
I had
https://*.domain.com/
, so it complained thathttps://specific.domain.com/
wasn't in the manifest. -
I added
https://specific.domain.com/
, so it complained thathttps://specific.domain.com
wasn't in the manifest (and this url was never hit anyway! it was just in the code to create links!).
I'm really only going through these because some users have been dying to have my extension on Opera, but, as a completely free extension with zero upsides for me, there's just no justification for trying to get into this browser if this process isn't improved.
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phaistonian last edited by
@tprockow Is there an ETA you can share on the automatic moderation process?
ps: Waiting for an extension to be published for 3+ weeks.
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devartstaff last edited by
Another two months without moderation - https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/tmetric-extension/
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sitenkov last edited by
Please review the last version of add-on (2+ month without moderation)
https://addons.opera.com/ru/extensions/details/alibonus-vozvrashchai-10-s-aliexpress -
oinkandstuff last edited by
This is a joke. Since 1 year ago all extensions are stopped in Opera.
Neither updates or new extensions.
It's impossible to work to Opera this way...
I have extensions with over 1 year of waiting. Will the users wait that amount of time for an update? No, they will just switch to Chrome or Firefox where the approval is in 1 hour.
This way I must conclude that Opera is close to decease...
Please do somethingGreetings.
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eliastik last edited by
Same problem, the latest version of my extension - 2.6 - (https://addons.opera.com/fr/extensions/details/page-shadow/) is awaiting moderation since the 31 october of 2018. The previous versions I have sent (2.3, 2.4 and 2.5) haven't been published (I sent the 2.3 version on 1 december of 2017 !).
Please do something !
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tautvydas last edited by
Why not close opera add-ons and just allow users to install Chrome extensions by default, same as Vivaldi does? This is not respectful both towards creators and users. Lack of comments and replies to this topic by Opera representing people is not acceptable.
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snake223 last edited by
Hi, Ii'm waiting more than week for moderation to publish extention update.
How much time does it usually take?
Extention https://addons.opera.com/developer/package/222495/ -
gustavwiz last edited by
I don't think ranting here will improve the situation. As you can see, tprockow wrote a couple of posts back Opera are working on auto moderation, which indicates they are aware of the problem.
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kurtq last edited by
Hello!
Added his extension MoneyBack.biz Browser Extension Dec 3, 2018, the status for today is not moderated.
The new version was released Feb 15, 2019, not moderated. After several months of waiting, he put a mark on "I want my extension to be available for auto-publishing". Nothing has changed.Please make the application moderation. thank
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kurtq last edited by
Last week, changes with the "automatic" moderation did not happen. Please upgrade even manually, maybe it will be faster
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nradiowave last edited by
Hm...seems system is really random. That suddenly started at november 3 and continue until now. (I already upload some versions of the extension before and they was published after from few days to 1 month, but not a almost half of year without any feedback or notifications)
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kurtq last edited by
Please answer, how long will this nightmare last for moderation? When (at least an approximate time frame) is it worth waiting for improvements? thank