At the moment, XenForo.com's only add-on is paid, which automatically makes it incompatible with the Resource Manager as it has no compatibility with a payment system itself.I would like to issue a challenge to Xenforo.com - support your addons as you expect everyone else to do - use the RM for your own addons.
Fine. Then all paid addons should be allowed their own forum + subforums here @ xenforo.comAt the moment, XenForo.com's only add-on is paid, which automatically makes it incompatible with the Resource Manager as it has no compatibility with a payment system itself.
I would like to issue a challenge to Xenforo.com - support your addons as you expect everyone else to do - use the RM for your own addons.
Do I have to go back and re-Like all my fav addons ?
The Avatars are ... well ... Super large. Thankfully digitalpoint is a good looking guy, but I don't see why I should be able to count the pores on his nose.
It is day #1 and the star ratings already don't make sense. The people who said the stars were useless were correct.
3 columns makes things cramped. The whole left column should be put in the right column to make more room for documentation / images.
The Resources Home Page which doesn't need tabs ... has tabs .... and the individual Resources pages .... which would really benefit from Tabs (Installation, Release Notes, Mods, FAQ, etc) ... doesn't have them.
Paid addons are excluded ? (I'm researching this still).
There is a real scattered feel to Resources. The lack of integration between the discussion of the addon and the Resource Manager is odd.
The categories aren't really helping to make things findable.
I see no way of being alerted to new Addons.
I don't see any benefits to having Styles and Addons in the same location.
I don't see how the Resource manager will make Documenting easier / better.
I would like to issue a challenge to Xenforo.com - support your addons as you expect everyone else to do - use the RM for your own addons.
Xenforo.com has more than one forum per addon for their addons.an entire forum for each add-on seems a little over the top to me.
Xenforo.com has more than one forum per addon for their addons.
(Ugh; I imagine I'm being annoying and nitpicky, but...) I think that's not something that Mike and Kier would disagree with--it was announced as an "early version" and there are clearly more things to come. I agree that it's to be expected that they would use their own product as well, but at this early stage, I think it's fine not to until that necessary functionality is added.I think the challenge is completely valid. If the Resource Manager does not provide enough functionality to distribute XenForo's addon themselves, then the add-on itself is lacking.
I don't think it's over-the-top for XF to have forums (multiple or otherwise) for Enhanced Search and the Resource Manager, hence why I see no need to make a suggestion. I just don't think it would be necessary for each paid, third-party add-on to have an entire forum per add-on. Most paid add-on authors usually do that on their own site anyway, since they can't have people pay for it here yet (and when they do, they can use the RM just like the free add-ons do now), so I wouldn't see a point; that's all I'm saying.Xenforo.com has more than one forum per addon for their addons.
If you think this is over the top then make a suggestion in the appropriate forum.
They make perfect sense.It is day #1 and the star ratings already don't make sense.
I don't think he meant that, but the fact of how people are using the system.They make perfect sense.
They are based on this system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_average
Essentially it stops a resource with a single 5 star rating from appearing at the top of the list and is a much more meaningful representation than a simple count or average.
I don't think he meant that, but the fact of how people are using the system.
For example, some of my resources have been rated with 1 star
Are they poorly coded? No
Do they have bugs in them? No
Are they uninteresting? Probably so (add a reason for delete post? meh)
So, the rating does not seem to be a rating about the quality of the product but rather a subjective score of how "cool" a person think the add-on modification is. If that is the case then it might be useful to locate the best mods (as they would be the highest rated), but it would be useless as a generic indicator of the quality of the resource.
It does create the problem that you would have something that works flawlessly, left with a 1-star rating
I tend to use something else for popularity, for example, the "number of downloads" might be a better indicator of what is "hot". And vb.org went one step ahead with the number of "installations" (which was annoying because you had to mark the add-on as installed, though), even the number of replies in the thread is a better indicator of how interesting the mod is
Nothing at all can be done about those awarding the ratings.
The same problem exists on every single site which has a ratings system.
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