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?
Nós (a equipe do Discourse) mantemos esses plugins, portanto, eles não devem causar problemas. Os plugins oficiais possuem o check verde que você descreveu.
Plugins de terceiros podem danificar sua instância do Discourse. Na grande maioria dos casos, desinstalar o plugin resolverá o problema, mas isso nem sempre é verdade.
Minha sugestão é instalar o mínimo necessário de plugins e, em vez disso, utilizar a crescente coleção de temas na categoria #customização:tema. Eles são muito mais seguros para instalar. Você mencionou um plugin de galeria de imagens — isso agora pode ser feito com um 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…
