Addons-server: "Find a replacement" is not designed to be helpful.

[hwine]

Describe the problem and steps to reproduce it:

With 57 & support for legacy add-on's enabled, the link for "Find a replacement" is not designed to be helpful. While the URL from Firefox 57 includes the name, and some features, of the legacy add-on, every request is redirected to "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/mozilla/featured-add-ons/?src=find-replacement"

What happened?

I got directed to a list that has nothing to do with the extension I'm trying to find a replacement for.

What did you expect to happen?

I expected to, at least, be directed to a search that includes my legacy add-on, and thus a relevant list of add-ons to consider -- not 124 possibly unrelated add-ons.

Anything else we should know?

(Please include a link to the page, screenshots and any relevant files.)

Note: this is not #6162 -- I'm saying the "featured add-ons" collection is a poor target, regardless of presence of legacy apps. My legacy add-on may never have been featured.

[jvillalobos]

The Featured Add-ons list is the fallback option, in case there are no set replacements for the particular add-on you're looking for. The Find Replacement feature is optimized to provide some alternatives for the top add-ons, but for the long tail there won't be anything else we can recommend.

We hope this will become more useful as more add-ons are ported and we have more to choose from as recommendations, but there are many add-ons that inevitably won't have a suitable replacement.

[hwine]

Ah, got it. That makes more sense. It would be nice if the experience was smoother, but that's not a bug.

In an ideal world, there would be a brief note for the long tail folks "Sorry, we don't have a a strong recommendation, here are some things to browse through."

[MikkCZ]

Well, the featured list currently contains a lot of legacy addons. This will change before the release or beta, right?

[gaby2300]

I am sorry but till "Find a replacement" isn't really helpful and even
leads to non compatible with Firefox 57 addons, wouldn't it be better to
avoid offering the option?

On 24 August 2017 at 02:52, Michal Stanke [e-mail] wrote:

Well, the featured list currently contains a lot of legacy addons. This
will change before the release or beta, right?

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[diox]

Well, the featured list currently contains a lot of legacy addons. This will change before the release or beta, right?

Yes.

I am sorry but till "Find a replacement" isn't really helpful and even leads to non compatible with Firefox 57 addons, wouldn't it be better to avoid offering the option?

Nightly is not release for a reason :)

[gaby2300]

Of course! But as we are trying to get as many Nightly users as we can and
they are already grumbling about the addons issue, I thought this wculd be
yet another item to grumble about and lead them to stop using Nightly and
Firefox all together. It's not what we want, is it?

On 24 August 2017 at 11:04, Mathieu Pillard [e-mail]
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Well, the featured list currently contains a lot of legacy addons. This
will change before the release or beta, right?

Yes.

I am sorry but till "Find a replacement" isn't really helpful and even
leads to non compatible with Firefox 57 addons, wouldn't it be better to
avoid offering the option?

Nightly is not release for a reason :)

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[jvillalobos]

I would expect Nightly users to understand that nothing around it is a finished product, and things are bound to break. If they decide to stop using Nightly, I really doubt it will be because the recommendations feature wasn't useful for them.