Shoutbox

I have a suggestion for the forum administrator of Plugins subforum

ok the forum is being used for noting releases of new plugins, beta plugins, and requests for plugins....

Many requests imho wouldn't be made if pple searched a bit, but what to search? when there is a no good description of the beta plugin...

So i'd suggest that the admin would make all plugins (beta, released) into a sticky so that they are always on top, therefor people would always see it and also help the developers, by having more people test their plugins for bugs etc etc...

Some plugins i have in mind are (i dont use many plugins my self)
-Window Manager
-Screenshot Sender 3 Beta
-Who Sent It
... etc
that are still in beta phase...

Or you could always make a subforum in order to separate requests, beta, released plugins (not a good idea imho, more admin work to separete posts etc..)

Thanks for considering

I think the current situation is good enough, since people using Betas should know to search in the first place. The last thing we all need is some inexperienced user downloading a Beta, then demanding tech support due to problems.

Betas are for people who know what they're doing, so they can discover bugs and report them. Most users aren't sufficiently skilled to beta-test properly.

Note: This post isn't intended to put anyone down, more to shed light on the general situation. I'm all for public availability of Betas, but people need to be aware of the risks of unfinished software.

For some reason I still dont think this would stop people from joining so they can post their question once and leave.... even if it has been asked 100 tiems already.

This should also be in the "Forum and Website" forum

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Originally posted by qgroessl
This should also be in the "Forum and Website" forum

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It isn't about the forum/website though.

If the author is going to release a beta to the public, he/she will post about it in here. So it shouldn't be too hard to find out about it.

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Originally posted by TazDevil
So i'd suggest that the admin would make all plugins (beta, released) into a sticky so that they are always on top, therefor people would always see it and also help the developers, by having more people test their plugins for bugs etc etc...

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It's about the forum and website.... He's asking for plug-in threads and beta threads to be made stickies ... those are two different forums (MSN or Msg Plus! General Talk & Plugins forums.)

it's not a bad idea

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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.

Well i agree that betas shouldnt be used by noobs, but developers like me, need more and more people to test the plugin to make sure that it is bug freee before releasing

and that it could be easily noted in the download post that it is still in beta and bla bla bla...

Anyway i was not talking about every single plugin, i mean the mods know, for which plugin there is most demand, and questions...

Ok about searching, WE all know that there IS a search function, but experience shows that nevertheless, noobs never never search.

Anyway it's just an idea mods need to consider...
(i mean what bad to have 10 plugin stickies)

If you want testers badly enough, make a thread to call for testers. If that doesn't get enough, then you could PM a few poeple who'll be likely to help out.

I think it's best the way it is. If you have too many stickies, there's less room for other threads. If there's less room for other threads, some that don't get answered straight away could get quickly lost onto page 2, and who goes to page 2? Granted some do, but not everyone.

Out of interest, how many forum members are on your MSN contact list? You could ask them as well

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