Questions to the whole community, but especially to coders

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Originally Posted by Paul M

Ditto to that. The number of times you see a post that just says "It doesn't work", no other clue ......

I don't see a problem with this. Just make a copy and paste ready asking for more information. If they want help they'll come back if not they won't.

Originally Posted by Tim Skellett

So, how can I and others like me make this site better? What exactly is wanted or expected of us?

I don't care if you click install or not or if you credit me or say thanks to me

I only contributed one extension so far which proofed to be very useful for me so I thought "why not share it". I'm trying to support it.

I am generally a bit offended by the addons/ext/hacks here who start their post with a two site long essay on how to click install, vote for HotM, credit, thank, donate, whatever. This should be a free place where the content is the focus not the people who contribute. I got a lot of ideas for hacks here and generally modifiy things before they actually go on my installation and I'm glad if it's just a product.xml or a code bit which I can use how I want.

I think the most important things you can do is:
1. Install it on your installation and report if it works (especially useful if you use a lot of other addons/ext/hacks).
2. If it fails report back with a full list of installed addons/ext/hacks, vB version, OS, and so on, so I can try to find out what's wrong.
3. Give suggestions what to improve and/or ask what it is about and what exactly it does. It's often when you write something for your own it might be a mystery for you what it actually does. I'm also a bit suprises by the lack of documentation here, I'd expect at last a basic explanation how your addon/ext/hack works! I can check the source code but I guess you can not, so you're basically at the coder's mercy, he can do with you want he wants. So don't hesitate to ask questions if you're not sure about something!

Went a bit off-topic here but it's what I wanted to say for a long time