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[Danielc]

Perhaps, instead of closing the marketplace within Invision Community, it might be worthwhile to focus on a development strategy that attracts a larger user base and encourages them to purchase solutions offered by Invision Community. The current direction of the company's actions seems quite misguided and could potentially lead to a decline in the popularity of the forum platform.

It's worth carefully analyzing what is lacking in Invision Community compared to competitive solutions. For instance, if there is a successful marketplace, it would be worth considering the introduction of free tools or creating an alternative to the WordPress platform and Elementor tool. Such a step would attract new users, ultimately resulting in a higher number of purchases, such as for the forum platform.

The emphasis should be on continuous development and avoiding regression, as well as the closure of crucial elements like the marketplace. It's also important not to exploit the financial resources of existing users, but instead, focus on exploring new avenues for growth.

Engaging the user community to express their opinions and ideas about the platform's development is valuable. Forum platforms possess tremendous potential, yet it's crucial to find ways to revitalize their activity and attract new users, rather than eliminating them.

To sum up, the Invision Community platform can gain a lot by concentrating on development, innovation, and responsiveness to user needs, rather than limiting itself or shutting down essential features.

(Sometimes, offering something for free at the start is necessary to gain more in the future.)

 

[Dreadknux]

You could argue (well, IPS could argue) that the reason the marketplace is shutting down and other such deprecations are happening is because it allows the dev team to concentrate on focused "development, innovation and responsiveness to user needs". There's no real way of knowing how this will play out until it happens, really.

Although I do think that the way Wordpress handles a 'marketplace' could have been a direction IPS could have gone (I don't think Wordpress handles the stuff in their plugins database in quite the same way that IPS did its own Marketplace?). But the decision to drop a Marketplace entirely has already been made, sadly.

[Matt]

To be clear, we are not closing down third party development, in fact we are developing new tools for v5 to make some areas easier to add functionality to. 
 

This announcement is that we are no longer listing items and facilitating sales directly on our site.