Reviews for Unpaywall
Unpaywall by Impactstory team
232 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13958296, 7 years agoTL;DR:
Implement the best possible interface, regardless of lazy users' concerns, then create an easy version for them. Or at least make a second version that follows best-practices. Somewhat redundant program, otherwise. But great idea, and there's certainly something to be said for the fact that you've pursued the idea to this extent.
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Echoing the sentiments of another reviewer, and the respective reply from dev...
"Best-practices" in mind, it's too bad that they're being sullied in favour of unskilled-user-friendliness. Kind of ends up being user-unfriendly for those who would use in a more 'serious'/efficient capacity...
My opinion, for what it's worth, is that best-practices ought to be pursued foremost, otherwise the tool becomes an interface nightmare for those who want to use it efficiently and thoughtfully. You'd end up with a better product and that's the best scenario for a creator. A lite version is perfectly reasonable once that's taken care of.
I appreciate what you've done, though, and understand where you're coming from. It's a fantastic idea, but problematic roll-out philosophy for me. Ends up being a bit of another time-consuming hoop to jump through which sort of defeats the purpose for those who are capable, yet looking to streamline the search and organization process. - Rated 5 out of 5by Paulo Marques, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13907074, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by yzbx, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12755973, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13869065, 7 years agoI do not have money, so I am hoping this feature proves fruitful!!! That you have already proven.
Well just not too much money. - Rated 4 out of 5by Erasmus, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13346323, 7 years agoI like the concept. I will have more to report after having used it for awhile.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mikhail Khvoinitsky, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13766506, 7 years agoIt worked for the first article, but it just doesn't load for any other pages. For reference, I am looking at IEEE's website. I will edit if I get it to work, or if an update fixes it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13757385, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13740763, 7 years agoThis app sits at the top of my list of standard 'daily use' tools: I am an institutional research repository manager struggling to meet demand for Green OA archiving, without access to in-built automated processes for license checking and version control. Thank you so much for this.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13702632, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13636696, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by atomizer, 7 years agoagree with @caesar - modifying the page content is *not* the way to go and the dev response is lacking - it would be easy enough to add the option to change the color of the tool-bar icon and add a link to the resource in its context menu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13604996, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Maciej Krüger, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by caesar, 7 years agoThis addon inserts a 'badge' into the webpage when it finds an article, rather than using its toolbar icon.
This is problematic because addons should not modify webpage content unnecessarily. It makes it hard to distinguish between browser chrome and webpage content, which can make phishing easier.
Additionally, though the addon does have a toolbar icon, it does not provide access to the discovered articles and so is useless and simply wastes screen real-estate.
If these issues were fixed this would be a 5-star review!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for your feedback, Caesar. You're right, there are certainly downsides to injecting the button directly into the page content. That said, a lot of our users are not very technically experienced, and we found in testing that they found the button much easier to find and use when it was directly on the page they were reading. We talked about it a lot, and in the end we had to go with the real-world usability for our audience over the more abstract best-practice principles. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13226114, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13224186, 7 years ago
Developer response
posted 7 years agoWe can't comment on the Sci-Hub part of your recommendation, but we're glad you are enjoying the Unpaywall extension on Firefox and Chrome! :)