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lolol me: "I should really at least pick up the basics of writing NVDA addons some day. I believe there was an addon dev guide somewhere" *googles NVDA Addon Guide*

First result: addons.nvda-project.org/devDoc…

First line on that page: "This page will be removed in 2021"

...oh! Wait...what year is it? Am I back in the pandemic? AW FORK! @NVAccess you might want to track down who posted this and actually get them to remove it, this looks a little sloppy :) #accessibility #nvda

NVDA Add-on Development Guide

addons.nvda-project.org
#Accessibility #nvda @NV Access
in reply to Florian

NV Access
NV Access
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In fairness, it looks like the guide which once was there WAS removed in 2021 :) And yes, we do have intentions of removing that whole site at some point. At this stage there are some things not replicated elsehwere though, so it's still there for those who want the historical data. (obsolete add-ons listed there etc).
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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The community site needs to disappear, period. I think this is perhaps what you were looking for? github.com/nvdaaddons/devguide…

NVDA Add on Development Guide

NVDA Community Add-ons Development Guide. Contribute to nvdaaddons/DevGuide development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
in reply to James Scholes

Florian
Florian
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@jscholes yeah, there's a link from that one page to the page you just linked. I was just amused that a page edited on 2023 indicates it will be removed in 2021 :) Thanks though :)
@James Scholes
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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There is no reason for the addons subdomain, and add-on updater, to still exist. The fact that they do, the lack of an official add-on store page, and the unofficial add-on store browsers people have put up are not, as some would like to think, a demonstration of the advantages of open source. They're just a confusing mess.
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NV Access
NV Access
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@jscholes Not so much to do with open vs closed-source - the same thing could exist for a closed-source project, IF the right data was available - the advantage of open-source is that you KNOW the necessary data is going to be available. But yes, that is all something we are looking at cleaning up
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