Boonex Market has grown to include over 3000 listings. Many of them are excellent extensions, templates, languages or service offerings, supported and regularly updated.
At the same time we have accumulated a number of "sub-par" listings that haven't been attended to by their authors for years. Moreover, due to several market updates we still have some listings that use pictures with outdated resolution or don't have proper categories, motives or tags assigned. And finally, we need to prepare for an upcoming Market update which will bring better navigation, new categories structure and improved search.
Therefore, last week we've started reviewing every single listing, making sure that all relevant requirements are met. Admittedly, we have taken a somewhat "hot-headed" approach and started blocking non-compliant products right away, causing a backlash. Thanks, for the most part, to heroic intervention from Nathan Paton we are taking a more staged approach now, sending warnings with specific explanations.
Ultimately, our goal is to re-fresh the products list and keep the Market clean and relevant for the sake of community site operators.
The cleanup process will take a few weeks and we expect to update the Market navigation in mid April, then promptly restoring weekly Market digest newsletters and regular updates of Motives (manually curated collections for various niches).
Your suggestions are most welcome!
May be it's not so bad idea, to put some deadline, obligating term to update products? Say, after this term product will disappear from market and developer gets some negative sign? maybe 10% discount on all his products for 2-3 mo, something, that will work?
Needless to say, that Boonex can't stay by side: since you guys don't want to make simple and usual things (I mean simple and usual for social network site) - you push us to buy it see more