On 2/20/06, Robert Castelo <robert.castelo@cortextcommunications.com> wrote:
Once you're in one of the category pages there is no info displayed showing which category you're looking at.
In fact, the active category is visible in the collapsible category list which is collapsed by default. The category list isn't very noticeable or practical on that page though. Perhaps an option to go back to the category selection page or a select list would be better?
Would be useful to be able to see just a list of items in each category, rather than running through the teasers and links for each one. In most cases the module titles are self explanatory, a list would allow you to go straight to the module you want.
Alternatively, there have been discussions around determining the quality or stability of modules. It is probably a silly suggestion but would there be value in listing the number of bugs for each module? I dislike the idea of "ratings" because in practice ratings are never accurate. You can browse http://addons.mozilla.org/ to confirm that. Listing the number of bugs for each module though (not support requests but only active bugs) would at least give the maintainer some added incentive to maintain their issue list as well as their project. That probably isn't a desirable solution for either users or contributors but perhaps in the long term we could display some kind of "module health" metric based on project age, active bugs, perhaps number of support requests, time since last commit (or more advanced activity monitoring), and _maybe_ user rating. Done right that could be really nice. Doing it right seems difficult though. Cheers, Chris