Inaccurate plugin availability notes on meta

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Here on Meta, some plugins include this callout saying they’re “available on all of our hosting tiers” when that’s not correct:
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In some cases, that’s become inaccurate because the new free tier excludes the plugin. In others, an even higher tier than Starter is required. Per Discourse pricing, some examples are:

Math, Cakeday: require Starter or higher
Solved, Yearly Review: require Pro or higher

Some, like Subscriptions, do have correct notes…
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…but maybe there should be a general checkup of these notes for official plugins.

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Some also still mention “Standard” instead of “Pro” :woman_shrugging:

Just a quick note in case anyone wants to update these: The category structure on Meta has changed so #bugno longer results in a category mention, so whenever you edit a topic of an official customization the category mentions in this block at the top need to be updated to continue to work as expected. Otherwise the result is:

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I’ll give this a bit of thought in the next day or two. I’m wondering if there’s a small change we can make here to reduce the need to keep two things in sync.

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I suppose you could do something like image

Could even link right to https://discourse.org/pricing#compare-plugins, though you might want some scroll-margin-top to keep the headers from hiding a few lines:

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That’s exactly the kind of thing I had in mind. I didn’t realize there was already a direct link to that section (I looked, and somehow missed it).

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I don’t think there’s a direct link on the page, but you can target an element with an id, and in this case the table itself has one:

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How does that work for plugins that aren’t on discourse.org? Like Discourse Staff Alias?

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Ah, yes – Staff Alias currently says
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I guess only the plugins with a link to Discourse.org in the callout could be revised like my example. (Unless they wanted to update that plugin list to be comprehensive.)

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There’s been some discussion about this but I don’t think we’ve quite settled on an approach yet.

So perhaps we circle back to this part later.

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There should be some scroll margin on this now :+1:

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On the same subject: the “included in core” concept has been causing quite some confusion. In Communiteq we seem to keep having to explain that “included in core” does not imply “included in all hosting plans” and I’m pretty sure that is not only happening to us.

It would be good if this was explained better / more clearly somewhere.

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There sure is – looks perfect!