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[El Guru (Al)]

Looks like they have taken the preview site off line now. 

It's back (for now)!

[El Guru (Al)]

And it's gone again!

My thoughts and observations so far can be found here:

http://www.ffextensiongurublog.info/2007/02/12/firefox-add-ons-overhaul-pt-2/

[Ryan Wagner]

I was in the middle of writing up the blog post until I realized that the preview site may not be entirely what to expect. They have actually had that site up for weeks and there is actually a wiki page designated to the update:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Remora

I was going to write the post but I didn't want to criticize anything yet because I'm not sure what the final project is going to look like. One comment that I saw somewhere (maybe on the wiki) was that they didn't have all of the extensions posted on the site as of yet...so the 200 that they had listed might not be all that is available.

[El Guru (Al)]

I've added an update to my blog entry.  Still I really do hope they do something about the search.

[Ryan Wagner]

Yeah, the search really made me upset as well and I did notice that they took down the preview site. I still had one of the pages open in my browser for anyone wanting to see what it might look like...notice the expandable entries when searching (but you can't contract them once they are expanded):

[Ryan Wagner]

Looks like the new site should be launched today:
Source: http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2007/02/12/amo-v3-remora-launch-delayed-24-hours/

As I?m sure many of you are aware, today (Feb 12th) was the scheduled release day for Remora, which will bring localization, a more inclusive review system, and discussion capabilities to the addons.mozilla.org site. We had a maintenance window scheduled for today from 7-11pm Pacific, and during that period we discovered a number of issues related to differences between our test environment and the production one, as well as some late-breaking bugs found by our testers.

While we were able to resolve all but one of those issues to our satisfaction ? and that of our test suite ? we ended up making sufficient changes to the system that we wanted to take another day to test it in the production environment before we put it in front of Firefox?s tens of millions of users.

It?s a heart-breaking decision for the Remora team, but we think it?s the right thing for our users, and we?d rather have 24 hours of disappointment than put the users? experience at risk.

On the bright side, this will give us an extended window to take updates from our intrepid localizers, as those changes are sufficiently low risk that we?re comfortable taking them during tomorrow?s test-and-test-some-more window.

Thanks to everyone for their patience and support; we?re so close now that we can taste it.

[MetaMan]

The preview site is back now. It's also less...anemic. It is actually worth using now. Advanced search is still gone, but everything else seems up to speed.

[Ryan Wagner]

Maybe I'm just crazy, but doesn't the preview site just forward you to the normal add-ons site? That is what it is doing for me.

[El Guru (Al)]

Maybe I'm just crazy, but doesn't the preview site just forward you to the normal add-ons site? That is what it is doing for me.

Well, when you first posted this it was '404' now it is back to the 'preview' site which a much larger selection of extensions.  Crappy search, but with more extensions listed as well as a huge selection of dictionaries.

[El Guru (Al)]

Some good news per a comment in Mozilla Webdev blog in response to a complaint (not mine) about the lack of an advanced search...

fwenzel@mozilla.com Says:
February 14th, 2007 at 10:37 pm

...Advanced search is on our list, and will come back.

[MetaMan]

I have no more complaints.

[Ryan Wagner]

Thank goodness! I was worried for awhile that they would have removed the most useful thing from the site.