Can I Skip The Add-on New Account Waitlist

Anki Add-ons
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I just created a new add-on for Anki users that I believe can be very beneficial, however, it has been about a week since I created my account and still can not upload an add-on.

Is there anyway I can skip this step or get put on a fast track? Will it take months or weeks in your guys experience to get off this “your account is too new” error?

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We had to add the waiting period to deal with some bad-actors flooding the add-on database with malicious-coded garbage – so for obvious reasons, we don’t publicize the timeline related to it. I’m sorry, but you’ll have to wait it out.

Another thing to consider – if you’ve only been using Anki a few days, do you really know enough about it to create an add-on? If you’ve been using it for longer, do you have an existing AnkiWeb account you could use?

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Adding a manifest.json file makes it possible to distribute .ankiaddon files directly outside of AnkiWeb, it’s common when developers want to release a pre-release version on GitHub. e.g.

manifest.json

{
    "name": "my add-on name",
    "package": "myAddonName"
}

Manual: Sharing outside AnkiWeb

How to Download: Download the .ankiaddon file and open it with a double-click, or install it from the “Install from file” menu in the Anki add-ons management screen. (Please note that you cannot install the file by dragging and dropping it into Anki.)

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