Extension review ordering

[brian]

Just a quick question. How do reviews get ordered?

The reason I ask is that I was looking for a gallery so thought of trying gallery2 with the bridge for the first time. Reading the reviews at first they mainly seemed good and encouraging although I wa a little concerned at the relevance of some of the reviews as they were quite old and gallery2 is constantly being updated.

And then I go to the penultimate review
which is actualy the most recent. This review has put me off evaluating the bridge (or at least pushed it down the list).

As I said I dont know how the reviews are ordered/sorted but imho if there is some way that the most recent reviews /good or bad can be given more priority it would be better.

This i especialy true for the extensions that are regulary updated and have been on JED for the longest time.

Personaly I would like to see all updated extensions get a new entry with older versions in a subsection of that entry. I think that would be of benefit to users and developers alike. Especialy if issues that resulted in bad reviews are fixed in subsequant releases.

Just my 2c

[Schlu]

I second this.

Currently there is no way to order reviews by various requirements (by date, rating etc.)
It seems they are allways ordered by how much people find it usefull but don't care that this review is nearly one year old and in the meantime new versions were released.
I think there should be the possibility to let the visitor order the reviews by date at least as alternative.

(I posted this a view days ago in the "only free extensions" thread, but I think here it is better located)

schlu

[eyezberg]

I asked once, and the answer is: the most popular reviews (as in "yes, this review was helpfull") show up first. So if you want to push the linked one up, you'll need to vote for it.
Does seem a bit weird and I'd personally prefer chronological order (as new testers might be testing more current versions), or to have an ordering of the reviews.