Alex Kretzschmar5d ago

Home Assistant renamed "add-ons" to "apps" recently.

Whyyyyyyyyyy? It's so frustrating that they are still moving stuff around like this.

Guides, documentation, and videos all point at add-ons - and have done for years - so unless you have a _really good reason_, don't change it!

#homeassistant

Show threadmcsurl

@ironicbadger sorry but this comes across as "old man yelling at cloud." It was a small change that better describes what they are. Move on.

BTW. Love the new podcast!

Mar 23 at 7:41amPachli
Show threadSignalEleven5d ago
@mcsurl @ironicbadger that's how most complaints to Homeassistant changing things sound like, because there's a lot of old men among us. I'm in the chorus for this, "app" is a cursed term. But it's not the end of the world.
Show threadWouter@nukleos5d ago
@ironicbadger @mcsurl Sorry to disagree, but for a newcomer like me namechanges like that (same goes for changes in the menus) are mostly confusing! Much documentation was written before the change, and is not being adapted...
Show threadAlex Kretzschmar5d ago

@mcsurl I am older than I was, it’s true.

I think my frustration comes from essentially someone else reorganizing my stuff when I get no say in it - and no I don’t always read the release notes in microscopic detail either.

Ya know this issue isn’t exactly the most important thing in the world. But it did cost me 2-3 mins of cognitive dissonance last night when installing a simple, routine add-on (which they have been called for 7+ years at least btw).

I’m not actually mad, you understand. But I do think the HA devs need to start treating certain things as essentially immutable given the age of the project and its importance in people’s lives.