I will no longer be working on developing resources for Invision Community Suite

[Nathan Explosion]

Unfortunately, the time has come for me to begin departing from the world of 3rd party development for the Invision Community Suite of software. This is not a decision I have made lightly, and is something I've been thinking about for nearly a year already.

Why am I doing this?

Well, my heart just isn't in it anymore - since moving hosting of my resources to this site from the now-closed Invision Marketplace (August 2023 through to now), the proceeds from selling/renewing has been £575 (£509, after Stripe processing deductions)

From that amount, I've refunded 3 people a total of £75 - one of whom I wanted rid of because they were abusive, one who wouldn't allow me to provide them support after they actually requested it, and finally one who recently got annoyed because they had to wait a few days over the holiday period for their account to be validated on this site.

Further to that, I've had ~£150 of chargebacks from people who never even bothered contacting me for support and just went through their card processor (I've been a bit lucky too that these people don't appear to be anyone running those various sites that exist to rip off not only the 3rd party developers but also Invision customers, as those resources haven't appeared on any of the obvious places - but then you realise that this means they are simply just Invision customers trying to rip me off instead)

That leaves me with a grand total of ~£350 for 17 months work.

That's £20 a month - quite frankly, what's the point even if it is just a hobby?

So, what's next?

1. I will be disabling purchasing on all paid resources over the next few days.
2. I will be disabling renewals over the next few days. Unfortunately can't do this - if you need to download the latest version of a v4 resource then you will need to renew
3. I will continue to provide support for my existing releases to those who have an active purchase - that means a purchase of an item that doesn't require renewals, or an active renewal on an item that does require renewals.
   • if you want/need to download the latest version of a v4 resource then you will need to renew
   • At some point, I will cease this support too.

I will not be selling my resources off to another developer - if you have a copy of one of my resources, feel free to liaise with another dev to see if they want to take it on going forward (I'll happily provide them with the dev folder if they want it) Note: I will not provide the dev folder directly to you, only to a developer who contacts me.

Important: if you haven't got a copy of a resource that requires a renewal, and that renewal has lapsed, then I will not be providing a copy to you - you chose not to renew, therefore you chose not to receive updates.

[TomCat]

It's too bad you're leaving. I need the (NE) User Annoyance app for v5. I'll contact another developer to see if they can get your dev files for this app for a v5 update. God speed, and all the best with your new hobby. 

[Nathan Explosion]

@TomCat thanks.

Once you've engaged with a developer, please let me know who it is that will be picking it up.

I throughly recommend Adriano Faria, Dawpi and Terabyte.

[iiioroh]

I need module - Delete notifications for 5

I want to transfer it to Adriano Faria for development

Can you help?

Thank you.

[Nathan Explosion]

Go ahead and download it, and pass it to him (you can do so - that is your first step) and I will pass him the dev folder tomorrow.

[Nathan Explosion]

So, just to make things clear here for all reading:

1. If you have the ability to download a resource, or a copy of it already - feel free to pass it to another developer.
2. If you do not have the ability to download a resource (due to an expired renewal) then you will need to renew to obtain it - I will not be providing you with the resource.
3. And it's the developer who contacts me and requests the resource - not you.

And finally - just one more anonymous abusive email to the site's contact address will result in me shutting things down fully and immediately. If you don't like my choice to withdraw, be a man and use your actual identity instead of hiding behind a VPN.

[Nathan Explosion]

Update on items passed to another developer - those developers are free to do what they wish with the resources:

• "(NE) User Annoyance" has been passed to Terabyte
• "(NE) Delete notifications" has been passed to Adriano Faria