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   James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 02:02:18 JST James Scholes

   Separately from the poll: There are clear user experience issues with this approach.

   If someone was updating multiple add-ons in one go and all of them used it, the information would end up spread across multiple dialogs and there'd be no shared opt-out preference between them. The information would also only be shared once the add-on had been updated, rather than before to give users a hint about why they might (or might not) want to install a particular version.

   At the same time, NVDA offers no built-in support for add-on change logs. If an add-on author doesn't bundle a help file and include the changes in there, it's game over. An add-on you use every day could have many cool new things, and you feasibly might have no idea that they exist.

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     James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 02:02:15 JST James Scholes

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     • Kara Goldfinch

     @KaraLG84 I'm waiting for them to send me a reminder that I can file an issue, as official permission to file an issue so that I can then go and file an issue.

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     Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 02:02:16 JST Kara Goldfinch

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     @jscholes Probably best put something up on GitHub, because if it's not on GitHub it didn't happen. lol

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     James Scholes (jscholes@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 02:02:17 JST James Scholes

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     Who goes into the Add-On Store after installing updates, manually locates the add-ons that were recently updated, presses Alt+C followed by H to open the help file, works out the heading structure used by each different document, and reads the changes if they're even listed?

     Realistic answer: nobody.