I agree completely Al's statement. Web links in the description are 99% useless if 99% of users won't go to the trouble of memorizing or writing them down and then typing them manually into the browser app. Utterly useless.
On May 19, 1:39 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem I can see with website links is they're not clickable in the > market app and so people tend not to use them. > > I put a feedback link into the description of Funky Expenses and it was > rarely used, yet there were plenty of feature requests placed into the > comments which Google don't provide official web based access to :(. > > AndAppStore allows single threaded developer responses and user voting on > other users comments which seems to work well. I guess the Market guys have > other things on their hands at the moment (cough, cough, copy protection, > cough). > > Al. > > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Hodges > Sent: 19 May 2009 08:34 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Android Market should allow app developer to > respond to (unfair) comments > > By the same token, nobody really wants the description field to turn > into a forum either. The description is supposed to *describe* the > application, using it for anything else is abusing its purpose. > Developers do often use it for responding to comments, and for holding > the version changelog, but the answer to this isn't to make the > description field larger - it's to provide other means of offering > this particular information to people. I believe that this is acheived > with the website link, but others seem to think this information > should be more prominent to the user, so how about we investigate > achieving that instead. > > As for responding to comments, I guess for now you'll just have to > chirp in the user comments section like everyone else. To be honest, > there have been times when I've seen people warning off an application > for reasons that turned out to be perfectly valid. It's impossible to > determine whether a particular person is being honest, so when reading > reviews most people will look to the majority, rather than the > exception: As long as your app really doesn't suck, then you should > receive enough positive comments for the "unfair" one not to matter. > > I'm not sure whether a threaded comments system would work well on > such small screen real estate, but perhaps someone could sketch up how > it might work. Perhaps a good compromise would be to have the > developer comments highlighted in some way in the existing comments > section, so messages like "Update available: fixed the force closing" > can be made prominent without having to use up description characters. > > Perhaps it's worth looking at the other markets (AndAppStore, SAM, > etc) to see how they do this. > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Psym <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> At the very end, I dont think this private talk is interesting to anybody. > > > On the contrary, this is the best thread on here :) Reversi fight! > > > Back on topic for a second though... I'm in two minds about this. Yes, > > I see comments about my app and get annoyed that someone is > > complaining about a feature missing that is staring them in the face, > > but if we are allowed to respond then where does it stop? You mention > > the idea of a one deep thread, but then why should the developer get > > the last word? I don't want the comments to turn into a forum > > (although it might be nice to have one created for each app and a link > > provided). > > > I don't think mentioning another app should not be allowed - if I know > > of a better one, why not tell everyone? > > > I firmly believe that good will win out and the uninformed or plain > > slanderous comments will be washed away by the reasonable ones. > > > On May 19, 10:29 am, fdimeglio <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Aart, > > >> Please dont give me any lecture again (you seems really liking doing > >> this...) and dont mix stuff and keep your pride away. I am stating > >> here some quite big generic issues with the Android Market and not > >> talking about anything else. > > >> I have not changed my mind at all and I still consider your Reversi > >> for Android is hurting the Othello game big time (and btw your other > >> Chess and Draw applications are in the same quality as the Reversi > >> one...). I have explained that to you thru a private email but then if > >> you want our talk to be public, no problem at all. For being honest > >> you should say that I proposed to change my comment about your app in > >> the case you would improve it. > > >> At the very end, I dont think this private talk is interesting to > >> anybody. > > >> Last but not the least, for the sake of transparency, here is a > >> comment (that is a complete pure bs) I got for my app: > > >> Crashed 1st 6 times opening app..... uninstalled. Be sure to test apps > >> before submitting to market. Want a good reversi search for Hudson > >> reversi..... > >> David > >> 2009-05-06 17:41:50 > > >> If you are smart enough to look at the dates, you will understand. > > >> Fabrice --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. 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