Well, that is your opinion and I don’t agree. I much prefer a single clean image that gives an overview first, and videos showing individual tasks second, with their additional youtube noise (related videos etc). Whatever someone’s opinion is, no order is inherently more “logical” than the other.
Regarding the order extensions are listed in I don’t want it to be alphabetical as that encourages developers to prepend the name with numbers and other noise.
I can’t see my sales page at all. There is a page where I can download a csv file but I’d prefer something like the list which appeared in EW1. I like to see my sales straight away! When you can see it straight away it feels like catching fish when you are angling. Having to download a csv and then open it isn’t fun.
I’ll have to defer to @psaal on that one. I personally mentioned that I found Downloads more useful than Views.
We’ve been talking about various ways to rotate extension highlights. I agree that a feedback loop is not ideal.
Any news on this?
Frankly I wonder whether showing the top extensions at the top of the page is a good idea at all. It just creates an echo chamber and I’m not sure how useful it is for folks who are searching for extensions.
I think the categories are more relevant and should help users find what they’re looking for faster.
What do you think @Aerilius and @boris.beaulant?
On the home page I think the categories should be at the top of the page.
Then the most popular extensions followed by the top developer.
The ranking of extensions in the category should be in order of popularity according to the highest number of downloads in the last 24 hours.
This would be known as “Trending”, and not necessarily all time most popular (most downloads.)
Currently there is some choice by the user using the order droplist.
It does seem that “Most Popular” and “Trending” are obvious missing sort orders for categories, search results and author collections.
Personally I’ve never found the categories very helpful. A lot of extensions are field-agnostic, like Eneroth Solid Tools, Eneroth Visual Merge or Eneroth Align Face. Is it architecture or stage design or landscaping? I have no idea where I’d go to find such an extension. The only category that to me is clearly defined and useful is developer tools.
Would a ranking system like Sketchucation has be of any use?
Some of my thoughts:
There must be some words about EW is for Sketchup…
There must be a link what is EW and how to use it.
E.g.: Extension Warehouse | SketchUp Help (But updated content.)
Why the “Windows” or “Mac” filters is in the middle and the others are on left?
Not necessarily more is better.
Currently the “Top Developers” is chosen by the number of her/his plugins. Couldn’t be the extension developer with one plugin as “top” as the dev with hundreds of plugins?
What about to make a list of all devs?
The sort description is too short, or the developers has not been informed about changes.
E.g.: “ColorHex is a set of tools used for painting models with #He”
Some extension marked as “free” is not free.
If the EXTENSION TYPE is not “Free” and not “Paid” then what?
The categories are very subjective
E.g. all extension should be “productive” otherwise make no sense… perhaps the categories should be “checkbox” instead of “radio”, (or select box with multiple attribute).
The “Top Extensions” are self-click generators.
Should have be given a chance for the new extensions … perhaps “Top and NEW Extensions.”
Kind of “like heart” (revocable) button could be implemented to plugin page, similar as in the forum.
I like this idea! The original 3d Warehouse had a 1-5 rating system that started flame wars of people revenging bad ratings, but a system where you can only like solved that. Steam’s system could also be usable where you can either say you like or didn’t like something, but only after you’ve downloaded it.
It is important for me that the “like” can be undone. Because if a new version of the plugin comes out, you might not like it. But you may like the latest version again …
As in e.g. I loved EW1 but I don’t like EW2. Maybe EW2.1 will be better again. 
Apart from being under the sketchup.com domain?
That’s a good point.
What browser? Got a screenshot?
I’m using Chrome and I see this:
Agreed - “Top Developer” has been “most extensions” since EW1. It was a very arbitrary metric. And while I’ve always been on that list - I’m more than happy to see that metric go. I also don’t think the current Views metric is of much use to anyone either. We’ve been talking about this internally.
This should have been updated already. (Or is about to be updated.) But developers will need to update the descriptions.
Yea, currently any extension that doesn’t sell through Extension Warehouse is labelled “Free” which is unfortunate. This is logged internally.
Then you get NOTHING! No extensions for you! 
On a serious note - is there any behaviour you would expect to happen if a user filters out everything?
Not sure what you mean by this one. You can select up to three categories for multiple values.
While any extension can be “Productivity” it probably not the best description for all. You pick the top 3 categories that explain and differentiate you extension best.
The “Productivity” option is there for extensions such as “Selection Toys” etc - which doesn’t fit into any particular industry.
Fully agree! I want to see better rotation of the highlighted extensions. I think it would be nice of we should find a system that can show popular extensions as well as highlighting new or updated extensions.
Agree. Personally I don’t like rating systems with negative annotation - as those system often get games very quickly. And I don’t think it should be easy to leave negative feedback - such is better funneled into constructive feedback that can be made into actionable improvements.
Yes. Could be similar like in 3DW you have “link” to SU and link to EW. But here you can link to SU and to 3DW.
Chrome: Mac/Win filter is in the middle, the others are in left
Both paid and free are deselected but still there is some result:
Currently I can select only ONE of the categories. Or I miss something…
I mean I would like to able to select several categories at once, e.g. Architecture, Developer Tools, and Text &Labeling. Or any other combination… This could be done by “check boxes” on the start page or select box with possible multiple selection like this:
A link close to the footer makes sense to me. It doesn’t have to alter the visual balance above the fold but when you scroll down there can be a big prominent link just above the footer.
It’s already working like that:
If you experience that you cannot pick more than one, can you let us know what extension and from what page you are experiencing this? (My screenshot is from when you create a new extension.)
You misunderstood me. 
I’m a “Bystander” or “fake” developer and I don’t have any extension on EW or any dev account there… yet. (Just “trying my wings” in my spare time only in Sketchucation).
I’m a user only “mode”: just looking for plugins and can’t filter more than one category at a time.
I’m not a programmer or 3D designer, just like to discover Ruby & SyketchUp.
What is the purpose of why web pages show something like “top …”?
I imagine it can be:
As Christina says, the categories are very wide, and still it is unclear into which category an extension fits. As a new user, let’s say an architect, I would maybe click “Architecture” and still be overwhelmed by the amount and diversity of results and maybe still there is nothing related to what I currently do or need.
Maybe focus more on tasks?
I have a problem to solve and want to find a way to do achieve this.
Many of these tasks are independent from whether one is an architect or does stage design. Thinking in terms of tasks could involve some natural language processing, or it could be based on the existing tags/keywords. Maybe make tags/keywords more prominent?
It is essential to resonate as a visitor and not as a developer for the success of the Warehouse 2 extension!
New visitors want to see at first glance the most successful Plugins that are completely Free!
So the home page should change slightly without deleting what is good for visitors.
The main problem is still not resolved!
This horrible window continues to be displayed when the visitor wishes to consult the developers’ site:
