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by hnbad 1391 days ago
Just a recommendation: the site calls itself "Extensions Hub" despite the domain being "extensionhub.site". This is confusing and makes the site less trustworthy. Additionally "extensionhub.site" doesn't sound super trustworthy to me to begin with (maybe because the TLD is rare and "extensionhub" sounds a lot bigger than how it presents itself).

If the idea is to host other extensions on it as well, I'd suggest putting a little more effort into it so it feels like something that actually has extensions on it rather than blog posts. The page for the extension itself for example has none of the usual links or info about the author of the extension (the date and author feel like they're part of a blog post ABOUT the extension, not info about the extension itself because of the layout) and the actual link for the extension itself is a direct download link in the prose of the article itself.

This may be because I'm European but the complete lack of info about who operates the site (no privacy policy, just a twitter link and a copyright statement linking back to the site itself) screams "scam" to me on top of the impression that this is a blog trying to present itself as an extension store.

Please take this as constructive feedback but if I saw this site in the wild I'd assume it's malware.

1 comments

Hi thanks for your feedback. The idea was to lunch quick and cheap, that's way I choose a .site TLD.

If this grow enough in the next few months I will change some things including the TLD.

Adding privacy policy is the next step. Again thanks for your constructive feedback.

Great name, TLD has zero impact from my perspective. I wouldn't fret about packaging - leave that to those who buy overpriced lattes because of the branding.