Please don't get me wrong. I am not fishing for sympathy or compliments here. I am really getting torn between keeping things as standalone plugins or just creating a bunch of recyclable classes. It seems that all of my plugins are becoming so intertwined that it would be just easier to keep them as dependency libraries and pulling into individual client projects on need basis.
Juho mentioned in another thread that he is getting annoyed with plugins that package too much stuff, and that is how I start feeling about my own plugins.
I have a feeling that no other Dev teams really use any of my work for that particular reason. Ideas and notions change so fast that I can't keep up with myself.

1. When I post a question to your plugins page, I would never expact you to answer. It´s more in the hope to see if another user had the same problems and getting help from them.
3. Same for the compatibility issues - the plugin´s discussions page just is the best place to discuss with the community about it

Actually, I would suggest that we formulate better guidelines how to use the community in general.My perception on how to use the discussions changed a lot, and currently are:

"bug/concrete suggestion on UX ->github ; Question/unspecific problem -> discussions"

However, thats probably still wrong. I would suggest that we formulate the most imporant guidelines and show them to new user to better understand what to expact and where to discuss what. I could offer to put all this into a short but fast explainer video using ezvid.com (some experiance in that).

You can´t imagine how happy I got when I first discovered your plugins and when I got it working on my own test site. (obviously same respect for other plugin developers and core team!).
 

No problem to download your plugins from GitHub. But would be cool to keep the central plugin "pages" here as a place for the community to discuss about it and help each other (Without needing you to step by and answer the questions)

How about when you click on Upload a new plugin here on community

• you enter the URL of the github repository
• system pulls in screenshots, readme.md and zip download link from github
• when you tag a new release on github it updates here

??

:-)

We've been talking about that, however it's very complicated when you consider that some plugins (an increasing number in fact) rely on things like composer or git submodules to create the fully working end product.

As Michele stated;

Community members, let's CROWDFUND AND DONATE which doesn't change any dev's life but helps to show our appreciation and make them drunk with some beer/wine to forget about our poor comments from time to time! :P

and as I posted earlier;

There was a recent feature a number of us wanted so we crowd funded from members within the community $350.00 to pay to have it created. Perhaps something like that could be set up here as well.

I know people can always make a donation. Many times people aren't sure if they should or if they do, how much?

Could something be set up so community members could easily crowdfund and donate to a plugin? On the plugin page there is "Recommend" button, what about a crowdfund / donate or Sponsor this plugin button? Maybe a limit could be set so once a number of sponsors is obtained the button isn't there?

I've seen where on some plugins it has said a plugin was sponsored by so and so. Perhaps community members could each pick a plugin or a few could group together to sponsor a plugin. This information could be available like group members so you don't have everyone sponsoring a single plugin.

These are just ideas, and if people feel they are good ones, work on getting them implemented.

In closing one other idea. Implement ways for the non coders in the community like Michele and myself to be able to contribute; like updating documentation and setting up a FAQ section perhaps that we can maintain? There currently is a FAQ plugin plus a Question and Answer plugin where they could be (with some slight modifications) implemented on elgg.org to divert many basic or repeated questions.

Didn't mean to highjack this topic.

I am deleting all plugin projects from the community. Most of them will be available on github. If not, they are either dead, or I intend to make them commercial. Thanks for understanding.

It's not your fault, Michele. As they say, do good, then throw it in the sea. I guess after 6 years of trying to help the world, I need to focus on myself. Many in the community were tipping off my patience, and you might have noticed my inadequate reactions. It's better if I withdraw completely, and enjoy the dev-peace of github. I will pop in daily to read the discussions, but otherwise, I will only be available only for paid consultations. And I will invest more time into working on the core.

I understand your reasoning, you have to do what you feel is in your best interest. I hope the plugins that you have on github will be easy to find.

Regards,
Dan

My home is here: https://github.com/hypejunction. I will try to be diligent and keep all the branches and tags up to date.