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Let me give you a little background on this, I'm on the jQuery Board and a member of the core team. A new jQuery plugins site isn't too far away. We should hav

Let me give you a little background on this, I'm on the jQuery Board and a member of the core team. A new jQuery plugins site isn't too far away. We should have a blog post up in the next few days with the details, I won't steal the thunder but the new site will discourage spam, promote plugins with higher quality, and provide a consistent way for users to report/discuss bugs. > Wouldn't it be better to open the new plugin site then close the old one? Yeah that was our goal. In cleaning up spam on the old site we got a bit overeager and decided it wouldn't make sense to leave the broken remains. > It would be great for the end user and plugin authors if they (jquery.com) curates the plugins themselves. Most of us are volunteering our time to the jQuery project. If you are agreeable to the same pay scale, you can be one of us and help curate the new plugins site. Get your company to give you 20%-time.

leeoniya 15y ago
at long last! and not just because of the spam. i hope you guys make something much more awesomer. the old plugin site was infuriating to use/search.
Jd 15y ago
Would love to help curate the new plugins site.
stevoyoung 15y ago
I would volunteer to help curate the plugins. However, to be clear, I didn't necessarily mean manually curate them. You all can simply create a mechanism for the community to curate them (vote up/down, track number of downloads, reviews etc). When I said you all aka jquery.com, I simply meant that it will be controlled on your domain - not that you have to give more of your time. With that being said, thank you for giving your time freely to help grow the community. I think I speak for most when I say, I appreciate it.
- nerfhammer 15y ago
  A site that has good curation of a large number of small, useful code snippets: http://phpjs.org/ http://phpjs.org/
brc 15y ago
Being involved with plugins (not jQuery) I've struggled with working out the best way to curate quality. User ratings? Self-certification? iTunes-style pay + review? Combination of all of the above? Certifying code quality (whether free or paid) is a tough thing to do, yet it's going to be massively important going forwards. I'm keen to here of how the new jQuery plugin site plans to tackle this.
SimHacker 15y ago
Why waste one minute cleaning up spam on the old site, if you were planning on opening a new site that replaces it? Wouldn't it have been better (and less riskier ahem) to have simply put that effort towards the new site instead?

leeoniya 15y ago

at long last! and not just because of the spam. i hope you guys make something much more awesomer. the old plugin site was infuriating to use/search.

Jd 15y ago

Would love to help curate the new plugins site.

stevoyoung 15y ago

I would volunteer to help curate the plugins. However, to be clear, I didn't necessarily mean manually curate them. You all can simply create a mechanism for the community to curate them (vote up/down, track number of downloads, reviews etc). When I said you all aka jquery.com, I simply meant that it will be controlled on your domain - not that you have to give more of your time. With that being said, thank you for giving your time freely to help grow the community. I think I speak for most when I say, I appreciate it.

nerfhammer 15y ago
A site that has good curation of a large number of small, useful code snippets: http://phpjs.org/ http://phpjs.org/

brc 15y ago

Being involved with plugins (not jQuery) I've struggled with working out the best way to curate quality. User ratings? Self-certification? iTunes-style pay + review? Combination of all of the above? Certifying code quality (whether free or paid) is a tough thing to do, yet it's going to be massively important going forwards. I'm keen to here of how the new jQuery plugin site plans to tackle this.

SimHacker 15y ago

Why waste one minute cleaning up spam on the old site, if you were planning on opening a new site that replaces it? Wouldn't it have been better (and less riskier ahem) to have simply put that effort towards the new site instead?