Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
i think a better idea would be to keep to the current way of having a thread per plugin (for releases) and have just one sticky listing them with links to the threads

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That's actually a very good idea, as long as there's a note in the first post aimed at scaring off n00bs.

I'd like to see a subforum beta's as well

Though before adding stickies, people should learn how to make only 1 thread about their plugin and keep things organized. As it is now, there are too much scattered threads all about the same plugin. Stickies wouldn't solve a thing and only make the function of stickies useless because there will be too many.

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Originally posted by Juzzi
I'd like to see a subforum beta's as well

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I'm afraid that it has no functionality. For some particular plugins this could be usefull. But for most (if not all) it isn't. If you want to post a beta, why not post it in the dedicated thread (and/or toppost) in the first place? Why making another thread? Beta's of plugins become quickly updated and what one person calls a plugin beta isn't for the other plugin creator. It will simply causes even more confusion.
Reading many thread about plugins you can see this perfectly. A beta is published, some bugs are reported, then a "final" version is published (often in a seperate thread; go figure why). Then some more bugs are reported (between the trivial chitchatting) and another version is published, etc... seperating all this over different threads is nothing more then adding to the confusion and people wouldn't know anymore what the latest release is or what an update is or an old version, etc...

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And on the subject of searching: unfortunatly stickies wont help much with that either; you still need to search for something. Stickies wont fix the lazyness of people so to speak.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Stickies wont fix the lazyness of people so to speak.

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Just think of all the questions we've had to answer about the sponsor, despite this sticky.

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Originally posted by qgroessl

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Originally posted by provolino
it's not a bad idea

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I think there'd be waaay too many stickies... especially with all the plug-ins there are.

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I agree with you, my idea is to create one sticky thread only with all plugins list in it, editing when updated are available

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Originally posted by provolino

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Originally posted by qgroessl

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Originally posted by provolino
it's not a bad idea

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I think there'd be waaay too many stickies... especially with all the plug-ins there are.

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I agree with you, my idea is to create one sticky thread only with all plugins list in it, editing when updated are available

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That's the purpose of the official plugin database...

Instead of creating and updating that thread, update the database. The person who would need to update the thread could as well send a simple mail to Fraisie to update the official database...

There is no need for such threads and it is double/useless work.