3:28 I learned a lot from you back in the day. The main thing you helped me realize, though, is that we develop these weird ass habits with our websites because of nudges from the overall environment. We never think about what actually makes sense. I remember you ragging on "playing accordion" with the browser to nail down responsiveness at every possible viewport width rather than having a few specific content widths based on the main device types (and therefore having better control over CPL). I can think of several other examples. Don't ever stop sharing what you think about these things! If you can find a way to get paid big bucks for sharing your thoughts on this stuff, even better.
I’ve enjoyed your insights into the whole WP situation thinking ahead to what the next CMS might be if built from the ground up. Regarding the repo, there needs to be some way to discover themes and plugins though, don’t we? Regardless of where the files are hosted there needs to be a way to discover what is available.
My point is that the central repo doesn't represent everything anyway. If you rely on that, you would never find my stuff. To me, that invalidates the premise right off the bat. There's no need for a centralized anything; you can simply search for "WordPress Themes" or "WordPress Plugins" and find them that way. Or you can read websites or social media accounts that talk about these things and then go find them for yourself (again, via search or other organic-ish discovery vehicles). I would also note that a centralized Theme and Plugin repo is antithetical to the notion of a decentralized platform (which WordPress sort of pretends to be). A single choke point between users and developers? That's an easy system to rig and/or screw with. Ultimately, it's a lot easier to find things than people think, and a centralized repo makes things unnecessarily political. It is even possible to have a decentralized repo that developers can add to on their own, but there are some spam/misuse concerns here as well. Bottom line: This is not a big deal, and it's solvable in many different ways.
@@TheRealPearsonified I can see where you are coming from and how a repo can become overly political and we don’t want a future scenario where someone else does the same thing again. Outside of a repo, a new marketplace gear toward open source projects similar to Blender Market, might be good for people to market their plugins and themes and make them available. Before that existed, yes you could absolutely find different Add Ons all over the web, but it’s really nice to have a lot of different options all in one in one place and the pricing has stayed reasonable for a lot of products offered there.
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3:28 I learned a lot from you back in the day. The main thing you helped me realize, though, is that we develop these weird ass habits with our websites because of nudges from the overall environment. We never think about what actually makes sense. I remember you ragging on "playing accordion" with the browser to nail down responsiveness at every possible viewport width rather than having a few specific content widths based on the main device types (and therefore having better control over CPL).
I can think of several other examples. Don't ever stop sharing what you think about these things! If you can find a way to get paid big bucks for sharing your thoughts on this stuff, even better.
It's always great to hear from you, G 😎 I've got a lot more heat coming.
I’ve enjoyed your insights into the whole WP situation thinking ahead to what the next CMS might be if built from the ground up. Regarding the repo, there needs to be some way to discover themes and plugins though, don’t we? Regardless of where the files are hosted there needs to be a way to discover what is available.
My point is that the central repo doesn't represent everything anyway. If you rely on that, you would never find my stuff. To me, that invalidates the premise right off the bat.
There's no need for a centralized anything; you can simply search for "WordPress Themes" or "WordPress Plugins" and find them that way. Or you can read websites or social media accounts that talk about these things and then go find them for yourself (again, via search or other organic-ish discovery vehicles).
I would also note that a centralized Theme and Plugin repo is antithetical to the notion of a decentralized platform (which WordPress sort of pretends to be). A single choke point between users and developers? That's an easy system to rig and/or screw with.
Ultimately, it's a lot easier to find things than people think, and a centralized repo makes things unnecessarily political.
It is even possible to have a decentralized repo that developers can add to on their own, but there are some spam/misuse concerns here as well.
Bottom line: This is not a big deal, and it's solvable in many different ways.
@@TheRealPearsonified I can see where you are coming from and how a repo can become overly political and we don’t want a future scenario where someone else does the same thing again. Outside of a repo, a new marketplace gear toward open source projects similar to Blender Market, might be good for people to market their plugins and themes and make them available. Before that existed, yes you could absolutely find different Add Ons all over the web, but it’s really nice to have a lot of different options all in one in one place and the pricing has stayed reasonable for a lot of products offered there.