Continuing the discussion from Discourse for iOS:
Not sure if this has been posted anywhere yet, but what does everyone think of a DC App Store? Could be quite lucrative for DC and app/plugin developers…
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Do you maybe mean something like the Add-Ons site for Firefox (doesn’t support paid addons) or maybe something more like the Chrome Webstore (does have paid extensions)?
AFAIK such a platform doesn’t pre-exist, so it’d have to be built. And it’s not a very trivial project. (Unless people want to help contribute to the one we’re building for OpenMRS. :-))
There has been some discussion amongst the community around what this might look like, although nothing from any of the principals:
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Sam posted this in the other thread:
But basically I would like to see something like the Apple App Store - where developers submit apps/plugins, which are checked to make sure they are secure and in-line with other app rules and regs.
I think this way everyone benefits - devs can make money, DC gets a cut, and everyone else gets secure, efficient apps and plugins.
I’m not sure the Apple model is a good one for a free & open source software project, but I think I get the idea. The other thread above is a good start at discussing potential features/requirements.
+1 generally for highly discoverable/browsable Discourse plugins.
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I mentioned in the other thread that I like the idea of curated stores, but I think users should have the ability to run their own directories with their own criteria using the same software (would be good for companies like Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting)). In this vision, Discourse admins would select whichever directories they fancy, and plugin updates would stream in from whichever directory they were installed from.
I’m basically describing apt-get, aren’t I? 
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这个想法有任何进展吗？
（如果能在 Discourse 管理界面中集成一个类似 WordPress 的小型主题/插件目录，我就已经很满意了）
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ProCourse Installer 提供了您提到的部分功能，但目前通过 ProCourse 导入的插件在重建后无法保留。如果有人能修复这个插件问题，应用商店的构想或许会更具可行性。
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我们现在有的是：管理 → 自定义 → 主题
https://discourse.example.com/admin/customize/themes
…其中包含一个热门标签页：
以及 Theme Creator, create and show themes without installing Discourse!
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我赞同这一需求的必要性及其益处。安装程序中现有的“热门”标签虽有一定作用，但在我看来仍显不足。我最近发布了一个类似的话题，更侧重于主题，但我希望能更好地展示和列出主题以及主题组件和插件，甚至建立一个“市场”或商店。
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我一直认为，Discourse 的自定义功能存在第三方变现的机会。但我不认为长期销售插件是可行的（维护复杂、Bug 可能导致严重问题、在开源社区中难以推广）。
不过，销售主题/组件并建立一个可供浏览的展示平台，或许存在机会。由于插件可能带来诸多问题，我更倾向于引导用户群体进行前端定制，而非使用插件。自从我开始参与 Discourse 定制工作以来，我们的主题系统在近几年已日趋成熟，以至于许多定制需求如今已不再需要插件。
不过，目前我们的路线图在这一领域尚未有任何规划。
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这样的系统将更类似于全新的微软商店。由于其全新的商业模式，它已经获得了广泛关注。
是的，我对主题组件所能实现的功能以及它们易于使用的程度印象深刻。更不用说 CSS 自定义往往也非常简单。我真正想要的是一种更好的方式来查找这些组件并了解其功能，而无需为了测试每一个都进行安装，哈哈。
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