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 dev

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.) 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. 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. 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. A couple of other unrelated changes I noticed: * 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. * They no longer show a count of how many people +1ed it (but still let you do so from there.)