Archiving instead of allowing addons in the marketplace to be fully deleted. Thoughts? #4472
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Bit of a random one this. We're in the middle of a site build and were using the 'Mapbox' addon by @jimblue, but the site's not launched yet. I was pulled in to help out with a couple of bits on the project, went to set it up locally to have composer error out saying it couldn't find the Mapbox repo. For whatever reason it's been made private - that's obviously not Statamic's problem to deal with, and I'm sure theres a good reason for it. What was troubling is that it's page on the Statamic marketplace is completely gone, and now 404's. I'm assuming addon devs have the ability to delete the addon from the site. My suggestion would be that instead of allowing that to happen, allow developers to archive the addon, with an optional box to explain why. That way they can either say 'dont use this its no longer developed / insecure / etc' or 'I've stopped working on this, but check out this alternative addon'. It did also raise the question of how are premium addons handled for stuff like this? Can an addon you've paid for be deleted, leaving you in the lurch? I know the addons files themselves are not distributed by Statamic, but it's potentially something that could cause a lot of problems for people. Maybe an archive of each release is needed. Any thoughts / suggestions / criticism is welcome, I'm just opening this up for discussion about best solutions to improve the experience here a bit. |
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This is a bit of an unusual situation. The product is not only gone from the marketplace - all of Jim's repositories are gone from GitHub. Like you said, I'm sure he has his reasons for doing that. We don't allow products to be deleted yet but we do allow you to set them as a draft which would hide them from the site until you're ready to go live. Also, if the associated GitHub repo disappears, it would disappear from the Marketplace since we use GitHub to drive a lot of the information there. This isn't really a situation we had planned on to be honest. We have ways for sellers to mark products as unsupported and to change the price to free. Didn't expect people to just disappear from the internet. If you still have |
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To answer the following part of your message @rickmills :
I would say if one day the Statamic Marketplace offered a way to completely host and protect premium add-ons, I would be happy to hand over my Mapbox add-on. This would ensure developers get paid for their work and buyers always get access to their purchases. The 25% commisions Statamic make on the Marketplace should allow that. |
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This is a bit of an unusual situation. The product is not only gone from the marketplace - all of Jim's repositories are gone from GitHub. Like you said, I'm sure he has his reasons for doing that.
We don't allow products to be deleted yet but we do allow you to set them as a draft which would hide them from the site until you're ready to go live. Also, if the associated GitHub repo disappears, it would disappear from the Marketplace since we use GitHub to drive a lot of the information there.
This isn't really a situation we had planned on to be honest. We have ways for sellers to mark products as unsupported and to change the price to free. Didn't expect people to just disappear from th…