Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon

James, is the idea of having the UI for a list of curated aircraft
recommended to new users that doesn't hinder any other aircraft a plausible
idea?

Kind regards,
Philips Nguyen

Vào Thứ 2, 25 thg 5, 2026 vào lúc 16:13 James Turner <[email protected]>
đã viết:

>
>
> > On 23 May 2026, at 00:51, Richard Harrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The default filtering in the launcher already reduces the list of
> aircraft from ~750 to 62; and some of those should be variants.
> >
> > There are some UI issues with how that filter works:
> >
> >   1. The filter controls sit at the top of the aircraft browser and
> scroll out of view once you are into the list.
> >   2. Switching from a currently-installed aircraft into the browse view
> positions the list at that aircraft, which can leave the filter controls a
> long way off-screen above.
> >   3. Search ignores the filter entirely. It would help if results
> indicated something like "not showing N filtered aircraft" so the user
> knows the filter is still hiding results.
>
> Each of these was actually a conscious choice :) The first two are to
> avoid wasting visual screen space, and the later is you can find aircraft
> *regardless of their rating*, by design. Otherwise the discoverability of
> lower-quality aircraft would effectively be zero, and previously we have
> felt that was a worse problem.
>
> > It would also help if the average star rating were shown alongside the
> favourite-star indicator - probably as "3.4 out of 5" with the stars drawn
> beside it. Implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.
>
> Ahahaha :)
>
> >
> > Point (3) is probably the reason users still encounter low-rated
> aircraft that the filter would otherwise hide from them.
>
> Again, the intention of the UI is to allow the user to choose based on the
> rating, *not* to hide low-quality aircraft entirely, the same way Google or
> Amazon don’t hide low-rated items, if they do match your search. It might
> be bad restaurant, but if you want pizza, and it’s the only pizza place
> within 10 miles, *you* need to decide. Same logic applies to our A380 -
> it’s buggy and unmaintained, but if the user is determined to fly an A380,
> are we supposed to prevent them?
>
> >
> > Alan asked whether we have any statistics on aircraft usage.
>
> Those numbers also align with the data I get from Sentry.
>
> >
> > Anything we can do to improve the experience will be a good thing,
> whether this be UI improvements, fixing aircraft or updating ratings.
> >
>
>
> As Rhys said, MRs that update rating are welcome, we just see almost none
> being submitted.
>
> One more thing about hangars: aside from differently licensed hangars, it
> would be easy to allow a custom hangar to be defined based on Fgaddon, but
> which subsets the aircraft (this is already possible) and/or overrides the
> aircraft ratings. This would then become ‘James’ Top FGAddon picks Hangar’,
> and maybe contains only the aircraft *I* deem to be suitable.
>
> (This works because hangar building is decoupled from where the files
> live, anyone can make a hangar using the public scripts, based on what’s in
> FGaddon, and do whatever filtering or overlay they wish)
>
> Kind regards,
> James
>
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