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@Felix, "The GS website is not on 2019 standard", acenda hinted at 2 specific examples:
shawn_a has himself mentioned the GS Add-ons repo is unsafe and needs to be replaced.
The search doesn't work as expected, rating system is not useful (no quality indicator).
I worked on an update to GS Plugin Installer together with HelgeSverre over a month ago, but there's a bug that hasn't been fixed in weeks preventing him from uploading the new version here.
Many of the most popular plugins are outdated (including my own), have security flaws, are unmaintained & incompatible with recent Apache/PHP versions, and many more will become incompatible when GS3.4 is released.
The thing that GS got great (back when responsive websites weren't a thing) is the intuitive UI and the simple page-nav/components/theme model. If you look at the Github issues now, you'll see 42 unresolved bugs, from which 20 are security flaws. shawn_a (and Chris Cagle, founder of GS) have simply moved on to other interests and there's no one with enough time on his/her hands to actively develop it.
TBH at this point I think a complete rewrite would be in order, keeping just the UI, and rebuilding all that unsafe PHP-mixed-with-HTML on a CodeIgniter shell with a templating language (eg. Twig, Handlebars), and also dropping support for PHP5.4-.
Quote:It's hard to find the needed plugin from the site. Admin-portal looks a bit oldish.
shawn_a has himself mentioned the GS Add-ons repo is unsafe and needs to be replaced.
The search doesn't work as expected, rating system is not useful (no quality indicator).
I worked on an update to GS Plugin Installer together with HelgeSverre over a month ago, but there's a bug that hasn't been fixed in weeks preventing him from uploading the new version here.
Many of the most popular plugins are outdated (including my own), have security flaws, are unmaintained & incompatible with recent Apache/PHP versions, and many more will become incompatible when GS3.4 is released.
The thing that GS got great (back when responsive websites weren't a thing) is the intuitive UI and the simple page-nav/components/theme model. If you look at the Github issues now, you'll see 42 unresolved bugs, from which 20 are security flaws. shawn_a (and Chris Cagle, founder of GS) have simply moved on to other interests and there's no one with enough time on his/her hands to actively develop it.
TBH at this point I think a complete rewrite would be in order, keeping just the UI, and rebuilding all that unsafe PHP-mixed-with-HTML on a CodeIgniter shell with a templating language (eg. Twig, Handlebars), and also dropping support for PHP5.4-.
