Looks like some people are trying to be overnight millionaires selling Xenforo 2 mods!

[we_are_borg]

I don't have a social group add-on, I've got a group mention/tags add-on you might be thinking about?

I know that the word group was in that add-on.

 

[Gordon_Ramsay]

I don't have a social group add-on, I've got a group mention/tags add-on you might be thinking about?

I know that the word group was in that add-on.

Are you thinking about Snog's group addon?

https://snogssite.com/categories/social-groups.44/

 

[we_are_borg]

Are you thinking about Snog's group addon?

https://snogssite.com/categories/social-groups.44/

No it was from Xon but it was searched by group so it can be that the two where close to one and other.

 

[ColdCoffee]

What I don’t like to see is price tags on simple CSS changes thrown into an add-on.

I hate pointing fingers at anyone. But these two....

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/navigation-tab-icons.5999/
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/node-description-only-on-hover.6001/

 

[Fillip H.]

I hate pointing fingers at anyone. But these two....

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/navigation-tab-icons.5999/
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/node-description-only-on-hover.6001/

I mean to be fair it is the same kinda thing that AndyB does; pay X amount and get access to all mods that fall under a certain category. $5 a year for a few HTML/CSS mods (no JS is even used to do this) isn't the absolute worst thing in the world.

Although that being said, I think pretty much every developer has given away more involved work than that for free, so I can't say I agree with the notion of even having a subscription tier that low.

 

[Steve]

I think pretty much every developer has given away more involved work than that for free

Yea like completely free styles that come with free support

I appreciate the amount of people submitting things to the RM but some of it just makes the whole system look like a money grab. I have a few things to release (as free) that we use in our own style framework. For me the feeling you get when users use things you've created is sometimes priceless, also the publicity of releasing nice free mods/template edits or whatever helps with premium items you may post later.

 

[LenKaiser]

One of the reasons I have not switched from vBulletin to XenForo is because of the prices of some of these mods that I would surely want for my site. I have a legal XenForo license but just do not use it because in the end to get the functionality I want it would cost a small fortune.

 

[Banxix]

I was checking for a while, most of add-ons have below 1k downloads so it's not a potential market. I suppose paid add-ons downloads number should be lower, do not understand reason they hide the downloads number.

 

[Pete]

do not understand reason they hide the downloads number

Because the paid downloads aren't hosted on XF's servers and therefore they have no way of tracking the downloads?

 

[pierce]

Resources for sale usually lead to external links, so there is no counter.

 

[Anonymous]

Hahaha we got a new contender for this thread now:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-areas.6140/ - seems like a good mod right and decent price
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-areas-pro-performance.6141/ - PAY TWICE AS MUCH FOR AN ADDON TO THE ADDON IN ORDER TO UNLOCK PRO PERFORMANCE!!!

 

[we_are_borg]

Hahaha we got a new contender for this thread now:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-areas.6140/ - seems like a good mod right and decent price
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-areas-pro-performance.6141/ - PAY TWICE AS MUCH FOR AN ADDON TO THE ADDON IN ORDER TO UNLOCK PRO PERFORMANCE!!!

Its real easy if you dont want to pay you don’t use it.

 

[Bionic Rooster]

Hahaha we got a new contender for this thread now:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-areas.6140/ - seems like a good mod right and decent price
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-areas-pro-performance.6141/ - PAY TWICE AS MUCH FOR AN ADDON TO THE ADDON IN ORDER TO UNLOCK PRO PERFORMANCE!!!

Good catch, I totally missed that maneuver, thanks LOL

Its real easy if you dont want to pay you don’t use it.

I agree but it's nice there is a watch dog out there keeping an eye of things.

 

[Alpha1]

Paying & installing twice to get quality code is a bit weird. It would make more sense to me to just offer one addon with quality code that can be run without performance issues.

 

[Xon]

I've got a paid add-on with that feature (post areas) for XF1, and it is a heck of a lot larger than that. It'll have that feature in XF2

And it has decent performance!

 

[PoetJC]

I've got a paid add-on with that feature (post areas) for XF1, and it is a heck of a lot larger than that. It'll have that feature in XF2

And it has decent performance!

I'd say pretty damn decent performance. TAZ uses it. And TAZ is known for making use of the best-made add-ons
It's a great functionality addition

J.

 

[Shimei]

I would think that at first, with competition relatively narrow, prices will be higher. As competition grows, this will drive prices down. Often we pay a premium to be on the leading edge.

Four people agree with your capitalist dribble.

Communist/Socialist/Liberal/Democrats suggest that Xenforo should regulate pricing.

 

[Steve]

Four people agree with your capitalist dribble.

Communist/Socialist/Liberal/Democrats suggest that Xenforo should regulate pricing.

Can we please not go there.

 

[cheat_master30]

Well, you have to admit vBulletin only allowing free plugins on vBulletin.org and WordPress only allowing free and open source plugins in their plugin directory likely helped their community a lot. In that sense, it does seem like restricting what types of plugins and themes people can post does in fact create a less profit obsessed community than allowing paid ones.

 

[R0binHood]

Dev's can charge whatever they like. They put the time into developing them and if they want to charge $5, $50 or $500 for an add on, let them do so and the market will decide whether or not it gets sold. It's a waste of time asking them to regulate pricing.

What XF really needs is access to the plugin directory from within the XF ACP.

That way users can search, read about, install, upgrade and manage any and all free plugins from an XF repo, as with Wordpress.

This would give the free ones the focus and better exposure. Discoverability would be much better from within the control panel if it had a dedicated section, with top downloads etc. Combine that with a tweaked version of the install and upgrade system in the core and it makes the whole process of trying new ones much easier.
Paid ones can still be sourced from the resource manager in XF.com where at least they can be discussed and reviewed on a non-bias platform, whatever the price may be.

The easier it is for admins to discover and install new plugins, the more each admin will use, the better it is for devs and everyone as the market and demand for them grows.

That would also compliment the two tiered system discussed earlier where you have to pay for features to make the plugin big board compatible. Release a basic or core version for free for small sites to use, this could be listed and downloaded for free in the repo for maximum exposure and distribution. Then have the option to pay to upgrade to the premium one if you have a large site that needs the advanced features or optimisations for very busy forums.