devot:ee

Devoted to the art of extending #eecms. (RIP 2009-2024). Created by Masuga.

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Today is our 14th Anniversary (We launched May 1, 2009.)

Note that this past Friday we disabled add-on sales.

The site will stay online as a resource.

Thanks for 14 years!

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We've disabled most functionality at this point (forums, ratings, reviews).

We encourage people to stop buying add-ons on devot:ee and buy them elsewhere.

We also encourage devs to disable their add-ons for sale on devot:ee at their earliest convenience.

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@SamLomax Thanks, @SamLomax. We're so glad so many people found it so useful.

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Re: shutting down in 2023 (1/4)

Not 100% sure of the process yet, but one doesn't just flip a lightswitch and "turn off" a site with hundreds of developer accounts and 10's of thousands of user accounts.

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@nell Thank you!

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Sales and other activity will stop on May 1, 2023 (14 years to the day since we launched!)

Some more details in this news post: https://t.co/i6QvprPDhP

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For developers: add-on can be sold through end of April, so all final payouts will be made in June, regardless if you are at the $100 threshold or not.

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@OhPace Thanks!

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Thanks for 14 years, but it's time: we're shutting down by the end of 2023.

- New add-on submissions and registrations have been disabled
- Devs will have to find other sales and support channels. We'll email developers with more info.

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@hsergel Thanks!

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@jasonopus Looks like EE has some interesting things happening so, it's a new, different era.

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devot:ee was never meant to be a marketplace. It was intended to be an informational catalog of add-ons.

So, shoutout to @brandonkelly who first suggested it and offered to be an early adopter by selling his "Playa" add-on.

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@LeslieSCamacho Thanks, @LeslieSCamacho. A wild ride...with some bumps at times...but all in all much good came out of it.

You're a true CMS OG 😉

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@creativearc We built some really cool custom functionality. By far the best thing (as someone who manages the site) is the Ban Hammer. That saved so much time by cleaning up spam posts and banning bad guys all in one click.

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Re: shutting down in 2023 (4/4)

We may overlook some aspect of site usage or data that is important - so we're open to suggestions on how to make this as non-disruptive as possible!

Email if you have questions or thoughts!

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Re: shutting down in 2023 (3/4)

devot:ee will probably go into archive or read-only mode, rather than disappearing altogether, but interactions (ratings, forums) and sales will stop (and so will the 1000's of spammers hitting those forums and forms every day😅)

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@dougblackjr Thanks @dougblackjr!

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@mufi_nala Probably overdue - our goal was to be a central marketplace for EE add-ons because EE didn't have that. They've had it now for a few years, so things will be fine.

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@bkmorse Great community, great conferences, and many great people.

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@patpohler You are an OG EE dev - glad to have been able to help - that was the goal!