DieselMinded
Well-known member
Can you guys hire someone who knows what they are doing to "review" paid mods to make sure they do what they say?
Maybe have a "xenforo verified" designation
Maybe have a "xenforo verified" designation
So for people who build huge addons (galleries, portals, review systems, etc) a developer is expected to review them for $10?
There are pros and cons for all. XF won't put their seal of approval on any addons reviewed by non-employed staff and they do not have the time or money to afford to review them themselves.
If you're sceptical about an addon check the reviews and the discussions and check the addon out on the demo site if one is provided. Maybe even PM a person using the addon.
So essentially take a cut of the sale price? Adding $10 on an addon priced at $5 now pays the verifier double what the addon developer paid? Or are you saying every paid addon should be $10 or more regardless of functionality to account for verifier regardless of developer income?
I also don't believe a "verified" addon will sell more than one that isn't. Sales are based on demand and most people have either trusted developers or take the punt based on existing data.
Which addons have you had in particular that did not work as described? Who have you been burned off?It must transform into the "premium" forum software by not accepting 2nd rate, open source, unregulated money grabs.
There is no way the $99/yr Apple charges app developers covers their fixed costs up front -- supporting developers by telephone, reviewing apps, and providing the infrastructure -- for running the app store. But they do have a pretty slick back-end.Its time to get off the Google Play everything goes half the stuff works business plan and onto Apple where the stuff works 100%
What you are saying has merit. No doubt about that. The problem is simply that the xenforo market is too small for an overhead like that. Verifying all addons is simply not possible.
Ipb 's add ons and styles market is no bigger than Xenforo 's, and they do this. All add ons and styles, free or paid, when being submited they are checked by their Marketplace Moderators before being shown for the public.
I see. I know nothing about IPB, but from a developer's point of view, it seems very unlikely to me that an addon's code can be QA'ed for all addons. I have an addon which is several thousand lines of code, which has functionalities which only execute under certain conditions. For someone to review my addon to ensure every aspect works, every coding standard is adhered to would take at least 2 weeks of full dev time. And I am being generous.
If IPB do this, hats off to them and their code reviewers. But what is most likely, is that they simply install the addon and ensure there are no php errors etc. That is perhaps a workable alternative, but still nothing near to what the original poster was asking for.
Any purchases of premium add-ons on vb.org are done on the add-on author's web site. They are not done on the vb.org site. So it's generally the same thing as being sent to the author's site like you are here.The whole thing of clicking buy on xenforo and being forwarded to some shady 3rd world website to complete your purchase just seems wrong and non-professional, i don't think thats how things worked on vb.org.
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