let’s vote let’s get them a return to the old marketplace. It actually worked. You could download your theme. If you wanted to you could change the price occasionally if you felt like it, this is getting ridiculous.
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From my point of view, the old marketplace would be a big step backwards. What I would like to see is:
- Some of the ‘forgotten’ capabilities from the old marketplace to be implemented in the new marketplace.
- Fixing the niggles (not quite bugs) of the new marketplace. The experience could be considerably better for buyers, sellers and administrators. That reflects poorly on Concrete CMS as a whole.
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I agree with John. The old marketplace was very very old, beyond the codebase being un-updateable, it was designed before smart phones were even popular. Let’s be real here gang. There was a long list of things everyone hated about the old marketplace too, most of which have been resolved in the new current one.
Certainly, there’s always room for improvement and I’m sure there’s hundreds of things we could do to improve the current marketplace. To be very direct, as I prioritize our time on this the biggest factors are always going to be around customer shopping experience.
The marketplace license assignment, cancellation, purchase flow has received the most love from my team since our initial launch because it directly impacts every customer experience. People buy items every day, I want to make it easier for more people to buy more.
I would hope we all agree that those are the biggest bang for the buck issues to to worry about. Things like search behaving strangely or improving the check-out flow are always going to make me take pause and look for the time between our client work to give it another pass.
The fact that a developer can not download the package file which they themselves uploaded to the PRB process from our backend feels (again to me) like a nice bug to cleanup, but hardly a systemic “It’s broken - roll it back to some code y’all wrote in 2009” scenario.
I appreciate you’re frustrated tallacman, and I understand the work around Myq & Korvin have provided of granting yourself a free license to your own work so you can download your own package is pretty annoying and convoluted. I also understand that I can’t always find my own keys, let alone my old client work or package files on my local storage, so I don’t even think it’s silly you’re asking us to be the source of truth for your own work. I simply am spending a very finite number of hours on the marketplace and while we’ve known about this PRB download issue for a long time, it’s caused very few people a limited amount of pain, and we all know what Spock said about the good of the many..
I know that’s not the answer you’re looking for, but I hope some transparency helps.