Indeed, I think many people do, and that’s a positive thing. But the idea, of course, is on a marketplace you might get 10 or 50 or 100 people paying that $50 and then it becomes more meaningful. It seems to work in the context of other platforms at any rate. Not that I’d rather pay than have free, but I also don’t expect more in-depth, challenging work to be done without compensation.
don’t necessarily know the best way to handle it all. Mainly I just know the overarching outcome I hope to see: wider availability of more deeply customized themes, components, etc. to enable more use of Discourse in more contexts (where its use is appropriate).