Marketplace for Clients

[Afrodude]

As I am a client, but my license only expired. Why cannot I access free apps or plugins update whenever my license is expired and only accessing the paid ones? This is completely unfair. 

[Stuart Silvester]

Our Marketplace policy (requested and backed by Marketplace authors) is that an active license is required to use the Marketplace. The only exception to this is where you have purchased something, you are still entitled to access it whilst your purchase is active.

We do not have any immediate plans to change this at this time.

[Patreon Lukazuki]

for example, as I want to upload a free file to the market, I have the license but I need to pay a 40usd to upload a free file, seriously? 😂 the policy followed by IPS is absurd and anti-development.

[Afrodude]

54 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

Our Marketplace policy (requested and backed by Marketplace authors) is that an active license is required to use the Marketplace.

I see, but I don't see how an active license will serve Marketplace authors. It serves IPS more than Marketplace authors. 

54 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

The only exception to this is where you have purchased something, you are still entitled to access it whilst your purchase is active.

I am aware of this, but you guys should consider the free sources your clients are using from Marketplace. You should allow them to install any update if the app or plugin already installed on their communities free or paid. 

Today I have completed 16 years as client with IPS, and you guys treat me like someone just registered his account a new member. My profile says so. 

Edited February 4, 2022 by Afrodude

[Stuart Silvester]

1 hour ago, Lukazuki ❤ said:

for example, as I want to upload a free file to the market, I have the license but I need to pay a 40usd to upload a free file, seriously? 😂 the policy followed by IPS is absurd and anti-development.

How are you supposed to confirm that your file works with the latest version of Invision Community when you don't have access to the latest version? This is also a different thing to what the OP is raising.

1 hour ago, Afrodude said:

I see, but I don't see how an active license will serve Marketplace authors. It serves IPS more than Marketplace authors. 

It greatly benefits the Marketplace Authors, that's why they asked for this policy and still as far as I know still fully support it.

Authors update their resources to be compatible with the latest release, if you're not on that latest release you may run into issues. That also wastes the resource authors time when they investigate the issue and then realise it's because you haven't upgraded.

[Patreon Lukazuki]

1 hour ago, Stuart Silvester said:

How are you supposed to confirm that your file works with the latest version of Invision Community when you don't have access to the latest version? This is also a different thing to what the OP is raising.

when someone license has expired for example a few days ago, and he just creates a plugin for the version that last been installed, he knows that plugin work on every latest version of the Invision Community but can't upload to the market without paying renewal.

Don't tell me that you have to rewrite plugins every time to be compatible with the latest version, because that's not true. The correctly made plugin is compatible with each version until major changes in the core.

I know that's is different but, this is one of the many things of the present problem. Why fewer people will be creating things for the Invision Community?

Someone has a license and latest version of the Invision Community but without renewal:
- can't upload files
- can't download free files
- can't buy resources

 

1 hour ago, Stuart Silvester said:

It greatly benefits the Marketplace Authors

what? authors can't earn money on their resources without a renewal license even though the resources are compatible with the latest version of Invision Community, who asked for that?

 

2 hours ago, Stuart Silvester said:

Authors update their resources to be compatible with the latest release, if you're not on that latest release you may run into issues. That also wastes the resource authors time when they investigate the issue and then realise it's because you haven't upgraded.

the idea is good but needs improvement, as it stands it discourages devs from using it.

[Martin A.]

20 hours ago, Lukazuki ❤ said:

what? authors can't earn money on their resources without a renewal license even though the resources are compatible with the latest version of Invision Community, who asked for that?

We did 🙂 Gotta spend some to earn some. If the income isn't enough to cover the cost you are either not here for the money, don't have a big enough demand, or not pricing it "correctly".

Keep in mind that this also ensures that you can't purchase from someone who have left the "scene", leaving you with a file that will probably not be supported. Should it be taken over by someone else, you will most likely have to purchase it again.

20 hours ago, Lukazuki ❤ said:

Don't tell me that you have to rewrite plugins every time to be compatible with the latest version, because that's not true. The correctly made plugin is compatible with each version until major changes in the core.

This is not true anymore. An app or plugin would be compatible with the entire major version ( 4.x ) in the beginning of the 4 series. In the past few years changes to a central method signature happens more often, breaking backwards compatibility, even if it's "correctly made". They are even introducing brand new functionality in the middle of a major version. So there could be stuff out there that is compatible with 4.6.x but not 4.6.y.
This is stuff they wouldn't have done back in the days.

This is why we, the 3rd party developers, have to keep our licenses up to date to keep up with these changes.