About
History
Roughly 3 years ago something magical happened when u/bamboogod , the first moderator of the r/StremioAddons subreddit, released the Stremio Addons List on GitHub .
The original domain for it was unfortunately taken down due to a political dispute that got out of hand, and the list has since been moved to stremio-addons.com . Before that, there used to be a static list that was updated by hand.
The idea is simple; a community maintained addon list that anyone could contribute to. Addons are ranked by quality by ‘upvoting’ them, and the most popular ones are shown first. Downvoted addons are removed from the list after a certain treshold.
This list became the ‘go to’ resource for users and developers alike.
Motivation for this project
The original list had some limitations. Firstly, contributing required a GitHub account, which not everyone has or wants to create. This is understandable, as GitHub is primarily designed for developers, not the average Stremio user.
Secondly, the list was intentionally minimalistic and simple. Submitting an addon involved creating an issue on the GitHub repository. Once approved, a build process would update and deploy a new version of the website with the addon included. This approach essentially treated the issues list as a database, which is far from ideal since GitHub was not designed for such use cases.
Our goal was to address these shortcomings by creating a more user-friendly experience for both users and developers, while staying true to the original vision of a community-driven addon list.
Comparison
Honestly it would be unfair to compare the two projects side by side as the scope of both are fundamentally different. Instead, we’ll list what features of the original list were kept, which ones removed and why.
Keep in mind that all of the features we kept have been enhanced in some way. This post would be too long if we went into detail about every single feature though, so we’ll just stick to the point here.
Keep:
- Anyone can submit an addon
- Addons are ranked by community votes
- Search bar
- Installation buttons
- Addon details page
- Addon categories (labels) to filter on
- Addon status (offline or online check) coming soon
Remove:
- Sign in with GitHub
- We only support registrations with a Stremio account. See here for more information.
- Comments
- The addon page was never the right place for feedback or bug reports. Developers should decide for themselves what channel they want to use for that. In the future we plan to provide more structured feedback options.
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