Keith, regarding 4, screenshots and videos would be great too. Anyway, maybe you should take the content of your mail and put an enhancement request into b.android.com and mention the url here, so that we can star the issue.
I am not sure if that will get noticed by our overlords, but at least we would have a common place to store our Android Market bitching/enhancement requests. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone here have any actual information (not just speculation) > about whether the Market comment system will ever be fixed? It > suffers from many serious problems. I would suggest: > > 1 -- The ability of developers to offer a brief response to every > single comment, so that false, erroneous, or out-of-date comments can > be noted. > > 2 -- The ability of developers to respond (in a fashion similar to > point one) to comments in paid apps, which currently cannot be done > because only paid users can comment on paid apps and developers are > not paid users of their own apps. > > 3 -- Version-tagging on comments, so readers know which version a > comment refers to (helps to alleviate comments that refer to bugs/ > problems in out-of-date versions which no longer exist in the current > version). > > 4 -- Not a comment problem but a description problem: An extension of > the maximum length of app description beyond the current 325 char > limit. Maybe 500? Maybe 1000? Not necessarily a lot, but more than > is currently available. This problem is somewhat mitigate by point > one since point one would save the developer from using description > space to correct erroneous comments. > > Seriously, is Google thinking about doing any of this or is the > current Market system going to remain as is for a very very long > time? These things really need to change. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
