#1762 - Turn addon directory into a full-blown app store

By Chris Graham
Added 11th Jan 2015, 3:36 PM
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Identifier	#1762
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Turn addon directory into a full-blown app store
Status	Closed (rejected)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	General / Uncategorised
Description	Allow sale of addons from our own site.
Steps to reproduce
Additional information	This has advantages and disadvantages. It would be a lot of work, and isn't really following our Open Source spirit. However, it could incentivise a growth in the platform.
Related to	#2955 - Improved list selection UIs
Funded?	No

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By Guest posted 11th Jan 2015, 3:55 PM

If we did this, we would probably want to improve addon selection within Composr. It would embed the full app store within Composr rather than a simple selection tree.

By Guest posted 21st Apr 2016, 4:57 PM

Surely if people want to charge for addons and themes, they can provide the downloads from their own websites (and the support). Whilst this may encourage more external development, the motivation for them would be financial rather than for the greater good. I think there are better things to devote your coding time to :)

By Guest posted 22nd Apr 2016, 11:12 AM

I agree with KingBlast. I think for the sake of keeping the open source model with ocProducts, the addon registry should not have functionality to allow for the "purchasing" of addons; that should be done via. a developer's personal registry.

By Guest posted 23rd Apr 2016, 2:46 AM

The amount of addons for WordPress is ridiculous, as is trying to patch together the website you want with it. I found it frustrating, and you know I like to have a dabble. Composr is a far superior platform to build a website with and only occasionally annoys me with beeps, so hopefully we can push to raise the awareness and encourage hundreds of people to make addons which will mute the incessant beepings. (Even though you turned them off, they will find a way to alert me to nothing whatsoever for no reason whatsoever).

I'm not paying for one though, even if they do come back. Even if it's on sale from your fancy new app store.

By Guest posted 14th Aug 2022, 9:44 PM

This is antithetical to the direction we are going in. We're trying to incentivise users to participate in a fully Open Source community together, as part of one big autonomous organisation. If people want to bring hard currency (dollars etc) into that, it should be outside of the main website.