I’m just discovering the world of discourse plugins. But before I commit to them, I need to know the consequences.
Since they are open source, there are no guarantee that they will be maintained forever (thank you creators <3) . So any day they can break and my only choice be to remove it.
But then what happens with the posts that used the plugin?
Nosotros (el equipo de Discourse) mantenemos estos complementos, por lo que no deberían causar problemas. Los complementos oficiales llevan la marca de verificación verde que describes.
Los complementos de terceros podrían dañar tu instancia de Discourse. En la gran mayoría de los casos, desinstalar el complemento solucionará el problema, pero esto no siempre es así.
Mi consejo sería instalar la cantidad mínima de complementos y, en su lugar, utilizar la creciente colección de temas en la categoría Customization > Theme. Son mucho más seguros de instalar. Mencionaste un complemento de galería de imágenes, que ahora se puede lograr con un tema como este:
Thanks! I really like the locations and events plugins, they fit my community quite well. I guess I’ll just create a bunch of topics using them, then comment out the line in my app.yml and see what happens…
Edit: I tested it
With the locations plugin, they just get erased, topics continue but without location data.
The events plugin is weird, it does not show as installed anymore, but I can still insert dates, and the previous dates are still correctly displayed.
No damage to the forum itself. But still means you’d lose all the locations data associated. Dates you’d keep some information.
Since they really fit my community I’ll use it and hope it never breaks/becomes obsolete.
Upon reinstalling them, the stuff came back as it was before uninstalling. Weird but good I guess…
