When I browse the plugins in Obsidian/Community Plugins/Browse, almost every preview begins with “This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff.” That text is fine, and informative when looking at the full plugin description, but when scrolling through and looking at previews, it leaves almost no space to see what the plugin does, making it difficult to quickly scroll through recent releases (or any releases actually) to see what’s out there.
Ideally, the text should exist in the full plugin details, but should be filtered out in the preview as not only does it not add important information for that process, it prevents important information from being seen.
I wouldn’t be a big fan of hiding it. For those of us who are security-conscious (either willingly or due to employer restrictions), I want to know upfront whether the plug-in has been reviewed before I ever click on it. I don’t want to select a plugin from the list only to find out after reading its description that I either won’t or can’t use it.
As @dmantisk said, maybe a tag. ‘Not Reviewed’ should be sufficient for most people, I would think.
It would also be awesome if there were a user-selectable option to show only reviewed plugins, similar to how we can choose to only show installed plugins.
The reason I mentioned ‘communicating the whole thing’ in short to be a problem is because I assumed the obsidian team wanted to make the distinction that a plugin is not manually reviewed, but it is reviewed by the automated system.
I could be misremembering, but wasn’t the intent to only manually review plugins that gets big or gets flagged? Which means all new plugins are not going to be manually reviewed by default. And the team needs to communicate that without scaring people away from new plugins.