Marketplace & Other Resource Downtime

[ENTERPRISE]

Hello all, 

 

Apologies for the inconvenience but unfortunately the Marketplace is no longer available.

 

The marketplace is developed by a 3rd party developer that was an "off the shelf product" (not specifically for just EHW). Unfortunately since IPS decided to close the plugin marketplace that was a one stop resource for community owners to get plugins and applications, it has made life harder on verifying plugin version compatibility & integrity with updated versions of the IPS platform software and you do not know if something is incompatible upon upgrading, by which point it is too late. It is now a very manual task to get the latest versions of each plugin  

 

While most of the plugin developers have their own websites (in light of the IPS Marketplace closure) now and I have access to the latest versions of most items, the Marketplace plugin has lagged behind in development and has now fallen out of being "Supported" due to a difference in PHP levels. I have made contact with the dev to see if we can get a new version sorted, not just for us but for anyone also using this resource. 

 

It is possible that we will also have to temporarily disable the following site features in the future: 

 

Discord Integration 

Tags (Used for the news section)

 

Again, this is down to plugin developers becoming unavailable. 

 

Now, within reason it is likely that we can replace the above mentioned plugins with a like for like, specifically developed for EHW moving forward by my dev contact. So it is not my goal to lose the noted functionality permanently, but there may be an interim period where we will have to be patient. 

 

Thanks for your understanding.

E

[ENTERPRISE]

Update, it is my hopes to be able to re-enabled the Marketplace shortly, thanks to our dev. 

 

After speaking with our dev, he will be able to maintain any plugins that we utilize that become unsupported due to a lack of updates from the original developer. This is excellent news as we will be able to keep the functionality we have moving forward