What about adapting Mozilla’s extension-site? From an and-user’s perspective I think they’ve well figured out how such site should work, at least from a consumer’s perspective. Adopting a Q/A site for something that allows for a structured presentation of an extension looks like turning a bus into a car. Sure it will function, but I wouldn’t expect the UX to gain anything from it.
Live site: https://addons.mozilla.org <https://addons.mozilla.org/> Source: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server <https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server> (Python / Django based) https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend <https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend> (JavaScript / React based) g., Maarten Brouwers > Op 11 okt. 2018, om 22:56 heeft Miguel Ángel Ríos Vázquez > <miguelange...@libreoffice.org> het volgende geschreven: > > Can we really think about using Ask for that? > > My impression is that it is not even very well accepted as a forum. Not an > example of success. > > For me the current web of extensions looks and works well enough. > > And on the other hand we could be more thankful with the volunteer work of > the people in the project, whether we like it or not. > > Miguel Ángel. > > El 11/10/18 a las 14:58, Bjoern Michaelsen escribió: >> Hello Design Team, >> as you might be aware, the user experience of our extension and template >> website causes users a lot of concern[1]. This is despite volunteer efforts >> trying to move this forward, but stalling due to limited resources, which led >> to TDF even attempting to get commercial support for Plone[2] to augment the >> the limited volunteer ressources available. The latter did not help to >> meaningfully improve the situation either. >> So as all current efforts there are stalled, I looked around for alternative >> solutions to our usecase -- which is hosting auxiliary content for >> LibreOffice >> consumers. We already have a platform that does that, which is >> ask.libreoffice.org. >> ask.libreoffice.org already allows uploading of templates as attachments to >> questions, so it can already be used for templates. Doing so (e.g. by >> posting a >> self-answered question) is possible, but not exactly intuitive. However, >> askbot >> also provides: >> - various logins including OAuth etc. (which currently is a hassle on Plone) >> - distributed moderation and gamification (which currently is a bottleneck >> on Plone) >> - better discoveribility, tagging and social media integration >> - markdown, mini-wiki and discussion of content >> - multi-language support >> That is, the experience for template creators and consumers is already much >> better >> on askbot than it is on the current extension and templates website, which is >> stalled and currently has no clear path to even get to a experience >> comparable >> with askbot -- let alone beyond. >> As such, I would like to suggest the design team to investigate, if it is >> feasable: >> - to extend askbots existing UI to offer uploading of templates >> (well, technically that is already possible: This is just about making the >> usecase more obvious to users, e.g. with a guided "templates upload >> wizard") >> - to extend askbots configuration to also allow .oxt files as uploads and >> offer >> the same for extensions >> - finally, use e.g. tags to provide a "template" or "extension" view of >> ask.libreoffice.org >> Unlike the rather limited successes we had with Plone, TDF sucessfully >> triggered >> improvements of askbot in the past[3], so given some well-scoped choices and >> selections made by the design team wrt askbot could help guide the same in >> the >> future. >> Best, >> Bjoern >> [1] Seen e.g. by: >> a/ repeated cries for help on twitter, some examples: >> https://twitter.com/nimbleslides/status/1020899933161848832 >> https://twitter.com/FloraCanou/status/1020517686453735424 >> b/ currently no presentation templates being offered there, despite this >> being the most common use case: >> >> https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates?getCategories=Presentation&getCompatibility=any >> and massive template collections actually being hosted elsewhere e.g.: >> https://github.com/dohliam/libreoffice-impress-templates >> [2] see entry for 2016-02-18 on >> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Decisions >> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askbot > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
