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?
Nous (l’équipe Discourse) maintenons ces plugins, ils ne devraient donc pas causer de problèmes. Les plugins officiels portent la coche verte dont vous parlez.
Les plugins tiers pourraient endommager votre instance Discourse. Dans la grande majorité des cas, la désinstallation du plugin résout le problème, mais ce n’est pas toujours le cas.
Je vous conseille d’installer le strict minimum de plugins et de privilégier la collection croissante de thèmes dans la catégorie Customization > Theme. Ils sont beaucoup plus sûrs à installer. Vous avez mentionné un plugin de galerie d’images — cela peut désormais être réalisé avec un thème comme celui-ci :
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…
