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Hey guys, I’ve resolved the spinner issue. Update to the latest version of the plugin and it is working again. You can test it out here: https://try.thepavilion.io (there seems to be a slight style issue with the babble icon on that site, but the functionality works fine; it’s probably a conflict with another plugin or theme)

https://github.com/gdpelican/babble/commit/83b697d28304525456c25a7de2d905c70c44fd75

@jomaxro Could you re-categorize this one? Thanks.

Failing a developer keen to take this plugin on, I’ll settle for someone(s) willing to help with a few things to keep this plugin alive:

  1. Triage bugs, ideally via the more structured wizards on thepavilion.io: thepavilion.io/w/bug-report and thepavilion.io/w/feature-request. I’ve added babble as an option in there:

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    The reason those wizards exist is that when you have a mega-topic like this one it’s hard to keep track of individual issues.

  2. Start to write comprehensive documentation for the plugin here: https://thepavilion.io/c/knowledge/plugins/babble/186 (see the other plugin categories in https://thepavilion.io/c/knowledge/plugins/171 for examples). The reason this is helpful is that the same questions, or issues about a plugin will pop up regularly and it takes up time to respond to queries that have previously popped up.

  3. Respond to other users of the plugin here in this topic with links to those wizards, and the documentation when… you write it :slight_smile:

If maintaining this plugin was more a matter of clearing a clearly defined list of issues every once in a while, with good descriptions, logs and associated screenshots etc, then that’s a much easier proposition time-wise.

Also, if you submit a bug reports via thepavilion.io/w/bug-report, I will now get automatically assigned to it, and it’ll make my stats look bad if I don’t close it… :sweat_smile:

Screenshot at Jan 21 20-38-03

So I’m much more likely to action it sooner if you submit a full bug report, with logs, screenshots and good descriptions.

I’m still going to have this plugin on my list of open source assets to find a new owner for, however if collectively we can do the above, we’ll be able to at least maintain it in a decent state.

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