WP Idea Stream in WP Plugins Repository?

[JeffaCubed]

Hello/bonjour, This is more of a "question" than an "issue". I just wanted to confirm that WP Idea Stream is no longer available/updatable via the WP Plugins Repository (& now only available/updated here on GitHub)?

https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-idea-stream/

That's it/c'est tous, Jeff (Arsenault)

[imath]

Hi Jeff, Yes, i confirm. I removed all my plugins from there. imath. http://profiles.wordpress.org/imath/

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Le 7 avr. 2017 à 21:08, Jeff Arsenault ***@***.***> a écrit : Hello/bonjour, This is more of a "question" than an "issue". I just wanted to confirm that WP Idea Stream is no longer available/updatable via the WP Plugins Repository (& now only available/updated here on GitHub)? WP Plugin Page: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-idea-stream/ That's it/c'est tous, Jeff (Arsenault) — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[cdhinton]

Hi,
Is there a particular reason for that?
Thanks.

[imath]

Hi, Yes i've read somewhere the WP plugins directory wasn't a place for developers to get constructive contributions or conversations. It's unfortunately true! It got worse year after year and it's now a place to download free versions of professionnal plugins who are staffed to take care of the people crying into their support forums After 7 years being there with people rarely saying "hi" or "thanks" and regularly complaining instead of contributing, i got tired of this place. i'm not building plugins for a living so i don't want to be annoyed by these people anymore. Not all users are like that, it's probably a minority but "good" users remain silent most of the time and this doesn't compensate frustration. Thanks for your comprehension. imath. http://profiles.wordpress.org/imath/

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Le 11 avr. 2017 à 14:06, cdhinton ***@***.***> a écrit : Hi, Is there a particular reason for that? Thanks. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[cdhinton]

Thanks for the quick reply, and I can understand your position. Thanks for what you're creating, especially as it's not your main line of work.

All the best.

[JeffaCubed]

Good call! I agree, (unfortunately) the WP Plugins Directory is not (or no longer) a particularly constructive nor useful place for active plugins development/conversations/etc. WP-Idea-Stream + BP-Idea-Stream are particularly impressive & I use both of these on x1 of my primary BuddyPress/WordPress client projects - so MANY THANKS for building these! As a developer, the wp-idea-stream-custom.php file is "extremely useful" for customization. If there was a pro (paid) version of IdeaStream &/or a way to buy/rent premium support for wp-idea-stream-custom.php customizations, I would gladly buy it!! -Jeff, Vancouver, Canada

[jbostoen]

I'm glad to have found this! I actually found the plugin about a year ago after a company presented a very similar platform but way too expensive. I stumbled upon your project through the WP Plugins.

Yesterday, the same company came back to our headquarters to present their product once again (after the whole project got on hiatus). I was also wondering why it was removed there. Good to see it's still maintained, I'll definitely give it another shot to see if it can match our needs and let management decide.

Thank you very much for your hard work! :)

If we do use it in production (or maybe if we don't), I'm planning to contribute a Dutch translation.

[imath]

@jbostoen Thanks for your feedback 😍