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Getting a bad reputation from the spam it has been encountering apparently.
by drhowarddrfine 15y ago
Getting a bad reputation from the spam it has been encountering apparently.
- jQueryIsAwesome 15y agoBut actually the most annoying thing is the huge amount of broken links; they should host the plugins themselfs.
- skrebbel 15y agoGood move. Reputation is far more important than people getting easy access to useful tools. Don't get me wrong - it's their fair right to shut down a site they own. It's just highlighting a particular set of priorities they seem to have.
- shantanubala 15y agoThink of it this way: what if someone new to jQuery (although jQuery is almost like a household name to us, there are a lot of people new to web development) wanted some plugins? They would look at the page on the jQuery web site, and they would see spam. This is bad for new users, and especially bad for the jQuery community as a whole if they wind up using buggy or outdated plugins. By contrast, an experienced person who's already been using jQuery is probably just going to go on Github or do their own searching. There's no tangible benefit to keeping it around. The question you really have to ask: how useful is the plugin page? From my experience, it's pretty useless. A newbie will find most of the widgets they need (with high-quality code) in the jQuery UI/Mobile projects, and there are tons of authoritative blog posts if they do a little bit of searching.