Official Add-On Website- issues and suggestions
Hi guys, it's been a while since I've been on here but thought it was about time I rectified that Smile

First of all thanks for this amazing code you've done here, it's brilliant and I was working on a much simpler (inferior) version around the same time as you came up with this so thankfully for the community my very poor initial attempts were scrapped and I borrowed your code! For any of you that haven't come across my new XBMC fansite it's called www.totalxbmc.tv and the idea is to be as unbiased and fun as possible - everyone is welcome no matter what forum (if any) you frequent.

Using and slightly tweaking your code I've also got an addons section that currently displays all of the addons ever made, or at least all of the ones I've been able to source. This does include all the third party repositories and old ones from the likes of Nuka back in the day! There's some old classics on there that have been forgotten in time so I need the community to help out and let me know which ones should now be classed as depreciated, which ones still work and if any need a little fix.

What's new:
I've added some new tags so if a youtube video tutorial or preview is available a link will display on the addon page. Here is a good example

Xbox Compatibility, the idea of the new site is to cater for all xbmc devices so if an addon has been marked as xbox compatible details will be displayed along with any relevant notes.

Search by genre or country, by adding some extra tags which I'm hopeful some devs will soon adopt the user can now search by much simpler criteria than the standard audio/video/image categories. For example they can search for sport, tech, podcasts etc.

A new feature I've just added is if a gotham fix to the addon.xml exists (the community can create them) the link will appear on the addon page. This is a feature I've only just added so at the moment I have one test subject that you can see here. I realise it's not an ideal solution as the developer should really update their code for Gotham support but it's a useful feature for addons that are no longer being maintained but still working, the version number in the addon.xml will not be bumped so any future updates can still take place as expected.

Source Code:
I think the base code I used was around December 2013 time but unfortunately I'm not entirely sure as I was only messing about with it at home as a bit of a hobby and have absolutely no coding experience so it was all very much trial and error! I've now added my code on github, it's most likely a bit of a mess so sorry about that - like I say I'm certainly no coder and this is all still pretty new to me. I've had a look at your source and it appears you've made some really great changes so I'll be looking into bringing mine in line with what you've done over the coming days and will make any changes to the github source code which can be found here: https://github.com/totalxbmc/addons-website

New Tags:
I've just created a section explaining what's needed with regards to repository structure and the new tags, you can find the details here.

It would be great if any of you have time to pop over and say hello, feel free to voice your opinions on what you want to see and what direction the site should go in. I'm always open to suggestions and need as much help as anyone can give - it's suddenly taken over my life! If you want to adopt any of the ideas I've added to your already brilliant addon browser please feel free and if you could let me know of any improvements you think can be made that will be great. I'll try not to leave it so long next time, think I've probably only posted about 2 times on here in the past 5 years but if you'll have me I'll become more active Smile

#XBMCisFun
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RE: Official Addons Frontend preview - by zag - 2013-11-12, 10:44
RE: Official Addons Frontend preview - by zag - 2013-11-13, 11:43
RE: Official Add-Ons Frontend - by h.udo - 2013-11-18, 13:35
RE: Official Add-Ons Frontend - by zag - 2013-11-18, 17:06
RE: Official Add-Ons Frontend - by hellow - 2013-11-19, 12:00
RE: Official Add-Ons Frontend - by da-anda - 2013-11-19, 13:04
RE: Official Add-Ons Frontend - by schumi2004 - 2013-11-19, 15:43
RE: Official Add-Ons Frontend - by zag - 2013-11-19, 17:17
RE: Official Add-Ons Frontend - by Hedda - 2013-11-19, 17:53
RE: Official Add-On Frontend - by da-anda - 2013-11-20, 14:55
Re: RE: Official Add-On Frontend - by Martijn - 2013-11-20, 17:43
RE: Official Add-On Frontend - by Martijn - 2013-11-21, 00:09
RE: Official Add-On Frontend - by zag - 2013-11-21, 00:49
RE: Official Add-On Website - by dhead - 2013-11-23, 22:20
RE: Official Add-On Frontend - by divingmule - 2013-11-23, 16:03
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2013-11-23, 20:15
RE: Official Add-On Website - by celedhrim - 2013-11-23, 19:37
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2013-11-23, 20:14
RE: Official Add-On Website - by celedhrim - 2013-11-23, 20:30
RE: Official Add-On Website - by pkscout - 2013-11-23, 20:54
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-11-23, 20:59
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2013-11-23, 21:20
RE: Official Add-On Website - by dhead - 2013-11-23, 22:38
RE: Official Add-On Website - by thethirdnut - 2013-11-24, 00:34
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Milhouse - 2013-11-24, 02:28
RE: Official Add-On Website - by vially - 2013-11-24, 12:39
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Hedda - 2013-11-25, 14:55
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-11-24, 12:42
RE: Official Add-On Website - by jamontes - 2013-11-24, 12:59
RE: Official Add-On Website - by vially - 2013-11-24, 12:59
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-11-24, 13:06
RE: Official Add-On Website - by learningit - 2013-11-24, 16:10
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-11-24, 16:12
RE: Official Add-On Website - by learningit - 2013-11-24, 16:20
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Jako - 2013-11-25, 14:13
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2013-11-25, 15:34
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Gitrian - 2013-11-26, 13:03
RE: Official Add-On Website - by sebak - 2013-11-26, 17:53
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-11-26, 18:02
RE: Official Add-On Website - by sphere - 2013-11-28, 09:47
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2013-11-28, 10:50
Official Add-On Website - by sphere - 2013-11-28, 10:58
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2013-12-01, 17:29
RE: Official Add-On Website - by sphere - 2013-12-11, 11:32
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Jako - 2013-12-03, 16:30
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-12-03, 16:33
RE: Official Add-On Website - by ruuk - 2013-12-09, 21:51
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-12-09, 21:55
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2013-12-09, 22:01
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-12-09, 22:03
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2013-12-10, 10:19
RE: Official Add-On Website - by fergusb - 2013-12-10, 13:00
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Ned Scott - 2013-12-10, 13:05
RE: Official Add-On Website - by BartOtten - 2013-12-10, 15:22
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2013-12-11, 14:11
RE: Official Add-On Website - by sphere - 2013-12-11, 15:22
RE: Official Add-On Website - by kozzbc - 2013-12-13, 13:34
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2013-12-13, 14:06
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2013-12-13, 15:56
RE: Official Add-On Website - by sphere - 2013-12-13, 20:12
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2013-12-13, 20:53
RE: Official Add-On Website - by BartOtten - 2013-12-14, 03:27
RE: Official Add-On Website - by ruuk - 2013-12-16, 17:05
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2013-12-17, 11:15
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2013-12-17, 11:35
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Kib - 2013-12-16, 23:07
RE: Official Add-On Website - by ruuk - 2013-12-16, 23:29
RE: Official Add-On Website - by sphere - 2013-12-16, 23:33
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2013-12-17, 00:21
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2013-12-17, 12:14
RE: Official Add-On Website - by thedeadman - 2014-01-21, 20:00
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-01-21, 21:23
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-01-21, 21:24
RE: Official Add-On Website - by thedeadman - 2014-01-22, 11:56
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-01-22, 13:55
RE: Official Add-On Website - by thedeadman - 2014-01-22, 14:26
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2014-01-22, 15:30
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-01-22, 15:58
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Hedda - 2014-01-22, 16:56
RE: Official Add-On Website - by thedeadman - 2014-01-22, 16:01
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2014-01-22, 16:05
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-01-22, 16:08
RE: Official Add-On Website - by the_error - 2014-03-11, 15:40
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martian - 2014-03-11, 16:32
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Kib - 2014-03-11, 16:36
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martian - 2014-03-12, 09:52
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2014-03-11, 16:37
RE: Official Add-On Website - by the_error - 2014-03-11, 16:45
RE: Official Add-On Website - by learningit - 2014-05-01, 04:09
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-05-01, 10:38
RE: Official Add-On Website - by learningit - 2014-05-01, 14:54
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Kib - 2014-05-02, 07:26
RE: Official Add-On Website - by ap90033 - 2014-05-02, 15:59
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Kib - 2014-05-05, 12:17
RE: Official Add-On Website - by spchtr - 2014-05-09, 03:13
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-05-09, 10:25
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Fice - 2014-05-09, 18:54
RE: Official Add-On Website - by learningit - 2014-05-09, 18:55
RE: Official Add-On Website - by ruuk - 2014-05-09, 18:58
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-05-09, 23:20
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2014-05-12, 10:47
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Kib - 2014-05-13, 12:52
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2014-05-13, 18:40
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Kib - 2014-05-16, 08:59
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Karnagious - 2014-05-14, 03:34
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2014-05-14, 09:35
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2014-05-14, 09:41
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Karnagious - 2014-05-14, 13:15
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-05-14, 15:04
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2014-05-14, 15:17
RE: Official Add-On Website - by Martijn - 2014-05-14, 15:19
RE: Official Add-On Website - by zag - 2014-05-14, 15:31
RE: Official Add-On Website - by da-anda - 2014-05-14, 15:54
RE: Official Add-On Website- issues and suggestions - by whufclee - 2014-06-06, 13:50
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