Mikeiw3001

Hm, I can see why IPS made this change but to be honest, asking clients to seek custom app/plugin development is going to be a lot more expensive than finding an app on a marketplace that many customers will be able to purchase. I guess it will make me a lot more hesitant to spend my money on third party apps.

Right, so this bodes well for well known and established devs as they have already created a foundational trust model with clients.  For new devs, that's a barrier they'd have to create over time.  Meanwhile, clients either have no way to validate new devs work like IPS previously did to guarantee the safety of the app/plugin.
I think this greatly elevates the risk for clients and subsequently harms the potential for developers to grow the product.  Hobbyist sites will suffer the most as they simply don't have the resources to invest in robust security evaluation.
Perhaps another opportunity for a dev to provide some level of AppSec and InfoSec scanning of applications to lower the risk.  

One potentially large gap is the validation and approval process done by IPS to guarantee the Marketplace developer's app/plugin aligned with IPS standards before it was approved for client download.  How will this be managed moving forward?

No offence but this is crazy.
what will happen for people hosting in the cloud? No mods?

Bloomin' Americans!!! 😄
 
I've got bigger problems now, so I'll start up a new thread and try to forget this one ever existed. 😊

Bloomin' Americans!!! 😄
 
I've got bigger problems now, so I'll start up a new thread and try to forget this one ever existed. 😊

Bloomin' Americans!!! 😄
 
I've got bigger problems now, so I'll start up a new thread and try to forget this one ever existed. 😊