Users are funny
You probably know about that firefox extension I made a while back to modify the browser features that annoy me. Last week I decided to submit it to addons.mozilla.org mostly just to see what would happen. I figure that sites like mozilla’s and freshmeat are places I go myself when I can’t find what I want in a simple google search, and maybe more than three people out there are interested in disabling autocomplete popups and such.
What ended up happening was I filled out the funky little web form, placing all the useful details in the comments to reviewers and forgetting to include anything explaining the features in the comments to users. After a few days of sitting in the queue, my extension was approved, I got a page (NB: NSFW language in comments), and I soon after received three comments pointing out that I didn’t really explain myself. The first guy, by far the angriest, mentioned this pretty directly in a short screed against myself and the mozilla.org moderators, but the second guy found the README and posted its entire contents, so the third guy really had no excuse for not knowing what the extension does. I’ve since fixed the description, but the comments are a helpful reminder to me concerning placement of documentation as well as being a source of amusement. I’ve had 278 downloads so far, so maybe one or two people amongst the various humans and bots who blindly download everything are getting some use out of it.
One of the bots is apparently a site called Softpedia. I just received an email from them informing me that they’ve certified rmannoy as being “completely clean of adware/spyware components,” and they are “impressed with the quality of [my] product and encourage [me] to keep this high standards [sic] in the future.” So fear not, fair user: I’m not keeping track of how often you refresh Fark while saving you from browser popups and unwanted META refresh directives. Web browser people are weird.
On the nanowrimo front, I had a few bad days last week, but I’m starting to catch up. I’m about half a day behind in words, having just now crossed the halfway mark. With tonight’s work in progress of 750 words, I have a total of 25594, putting me at 656 behind if I hit today’s 1700 word goal. I figure I still have a shot at this, but Thanksgiving next week is probably going to be a little hard.