{"id":43,"date":"2008-04-24T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/basil\/2008\/04\/24\/changes-to-the-featured-recommended-add-ons-on-amo\/"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:08:01","slug":"changes-to-the-featured-recommended-add-ons-on-amo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2008\/04\/24\/changes-to-the-featured-recommended-add-ons-on-amo\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the Featured &#038; Recommended add-ons on AMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main goals for AMO is to help introduce add-ons to the user base of Firefox (and other other apps supported on AMO). The recommended list has been one of the ways to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to AMO v3.2, a single list of add-ons was maintained that showcased a sample of what can be done with add-ons. This came to be known as the &#8220;Recommended List&#8221;. Participation in the recommended list was coveted by authors since it was one of the more visited pages on the site and meant your add-on got downloaded more. AMO currently receives about 5 million pageviews per day with approximately 3% of the traffic to the recommended list. The list has grown and changed over time but has had about 25 add-ons on it.  With a single list, the members of the recommended list got the most attention and &#8220;starved out&#8221; visibility for other add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>One of the changes that was introduced with the latest AMO redesign is the ability to highlight a wider variety of add-ons. Instead of a single list, recommendations are now on a per-application, per-category and a per-locale basis. This gives the community greater flexibility and\u00a0 increases the face time and exposure (impressions) that an add-on can have.<\/p>\n<p>With AMO 3.2, we now have many lists.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Category-Recommended lists are edited lists managed by the AMO editors. They represent a list of the most interesting add-ons for a particular category.<\/li>\n<li>Category-Recommended add-ons appear on:\n<ul>\n<li>One of the two slots in the AMO category landing page (<a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/browse\/type:1\/cat:12\">see sample<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li> The Recommended List page for that category (<a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/recommended\/cat:12\">see sample<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li> The <a href=\"http:\/\/madhava.com\/egotism\/archive\/005011.html\">default view<\/a> in the &#8220;Get Add-Ons&#8221; panel in the Firefox 3 Add-Ons Manager (once <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=426914\">this bug<\/a> is fixed).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We anticipate about 5-10 recommended add-ons per category. (Fuzzy math: 14 categories x 10 add-on\/category = 140 recommended. Approximately 5000 add-ons on AMO means 3% are recommended.)<\/li>\n<li>As AMO editors are constantly reviewing add-ons, they can opt to showcase promising add-ons<\/li>\n<li>Add-on authors can request to <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/pages\/policy\">become recommended<\/a> (see last question)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Featured list is an edited list managed by the AMO administrators and editors that showcases add-ons for a period of time. This list will have add-ons rotate into and out of it on a periodic basis. Currently, once every 3-4 weeks. The list will be chosen from the existing set of Category-Recommended add-ons.\n<ul>\n<li>Members of the Featured list will be rotated into one of three slots on the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\">front page of AMO<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In order to ensure that the feature list maintains a wide sampling of add-ons from various categories, not all add-ons will be swapped out since some categories will need representation.<\/li>\n<li>We anticipate about 20-30ish add-ons to be on the featured list at any one time<\/li>\n<li>Currently, the following add-on categories will not be chosen for participation in the Featured list: Web Development, Language Tools &amp; Toolbars. This may be revisited at a later date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, check out the new AMO site and the latest batch of Category-Recommended add-ons as well as the most recent rotation of <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/recommended\">Featured add-ons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve tried to outline a policy around how all this will be managed &#8211; if you&#8217;d like to read and review the gory details on how the featured and recommend lists work &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Update:Editors\/Featured_And_Recommended\">check this out<\/a>. Feedback is appreciated as we are trying to be as transparent as possible. There&#8217;s more to do in this area including clarifying some edge cases on policy, considering whether to recommend themes and building locale-specific Category-Recommended and Featured lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main goals for AMO is to help introduce add-ons to the user base of Firefox (and other other apps supported on AMO). 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