Chrome Web Store have a new look

I was hoping that they restored the review ordering back to how it was. (Google is aware of this and working on a fix (there is talk on the Chrome extension developers mailing list); just hoped to see the fix now.)<p>I believe they now sort them by 'usefulness' when up until a month ago or so they sorted them by date. The current order is annoying because 1) the top reviews tend to be older and often talk about old bugs giving new potential users inaccurate impressions, 2) it is harder to see the new reviews (although the developer can log into a different interface and see them sorted by date), and 3) it makes conversations between the developer and users harder to follow.<p>The reason the last point is relevant is that for many users posting a review is the most obvious way to mention bugs. They should let developers respond to individual reviews and provide optional links to a bug tracker and a forum to better move traffic there.<p>UPDATE: Noticed that it now only allows you to write one 'review' so a developer can no longer respond multiple times; hopefully some of the above suggestions will be implemented.<p>A couple of other unrelated changes I noticed:<p>* They include your Google profile info when you write a review; not sure if you can leave a review anonymously (beyond having an anonymous Google profile) anymore.<p>* They no longer show a count of how many people +1ed it (but still let you do so from there.)

You know when you go to Wal-Mart and there's that giant basket full of $5 movies? There "may" be a gem in there, but you have to stack and pile them all over the place, dig through loads of repeat garbage, and just hope something is in there you want. After 5 minutes you're frustrated because you just wasted your time.<p>The Chrome Web Store is a pile of apps - especially games. Except there's no way to pile, sort, and cart them. If you could at least STAR a game so you could go back and look at the ones you've given a STAR to later, then it would be helpful.<p>G+1 doesn't help because I don't want to +1 something that may suck. You CAN create a bookmark while a pop-up of the app is showing, and when you return to that bookmark, the app popup shows.<p>But you know what would make sense because it's the way SHOPPING HAS BEEN DONE FOREVER? A ton of categories and sorting methods so you can browse small niches of apps you are interested in, like Platform games, or RPG games, or Sports games.<p>Not on the Chrome Web Store. Nope. Just GAMES. That's it. GAMES. Thomas the Train is right next to Counter Strike.<p>Ridiculous.

Title change suggestion: "Chrome Web Store <i>has</i> a new look"

Wow thats one long page.<p>Seriously though I like it. I just kept scrolling and reading, scrolling and reading. I think this worked well as I had no desire to look in any of the categories and just wanted to browse. And browse I did.

I went to the link using safari and got the message:<p>"Sorry, we don't support your browser just yet."<p>Will the chrome web store _ever_ support other browsers? Seems like bad copy otherwise.

Wow, that really looks good, nothing i would have expected from the pre-Page Google.

Looks pretty and I like the general trend of Google's new design, but it horribly breaks search (example: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/gmail?newlook" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/gmail?newlook</a>). I'd rather having functioning ugly over broken sleek.

Front page looks good, but I don't really like the popup format for the apps. It feels too cramped.

Most of my extensions don't have enough UI to justify the 1280x800 screenshot it now requires (if you want to update an old extension or upload a new one), so now the extension is hardly visible in them.<p>Edit: Scaling it up looks decent.

A bit off topic, but NPR chrome app is awesome! <a href="http://www.npr.org/webapp" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/webapp</a><p>If anything, new Chrome store design makes things more discover-able than before.

I don't like it. Not enough whitespace, too colorful.<p>I think it'd be better if the middle column was a scrollable list and the right column was fixed and display information when middle column boxes hovered.<p>Also, if I were looking for browser addons, I'd be looking for a "Chrome Extensions Center."<p>"Chrome Web Store" could mean many things. Web could mean anything so it should be omitted, and store is misleading if things are free.

The contrast between the body text and background is way too low (designers, please read <a href="http://contrastrebellion.com/" rel="nofollow">http://contrastrebellion.com/</a>).<p>Having one scrolled window inside another scrolled window also seems to be a bad idea, but overall this is a great improvement over the old design.

I'm a bit surprised with the positive comments: don't you find the layout confusing? It's hard to scroll horizontally and vertically with the eyes especially with the diverse fonts, colors, etc. making up each app description.

Wow, I thought I'd just stumbled across the Apple App Store. Just look at that breadcrumb navigation!

Wow look at all the games! Are these all made with JavaScript and HTML5?

Note: You aren't seeing the new design unless you're using Chrome.

Look around. It seems as though style changes are being rolled out across the whole Google portfolio -- I've noticed changes to Blogger and Search during the day.

The problem with the Chrome Web Store is that 90% of the apps there are bullshit. Most of them are simply shortcuts to Web App; which is in my opinion quite disappointing. I was expecting to find applications similar to "Quick Note" (<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpmllgcfadlkankhok" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpml...</a>).<p>The application shouldn't be in the cloud. It can save data their and requires an Internet connection to work, but the application should be downloaded and make heavy use of Chrome features. Applications should be picked carefully, and only few should be there. Only the good ones stand out.<p>Actually, it's just a link farm, and a free advertising medium for many Web Apps.