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Subject: Marketplace is being updated

CHMedia opened this issue on Feb 13, 2023 ยท 135 posts


lauraguo posted Mon, 13 February 2023 at 10:27 AM

Developers will be watching this thread, so you can post any bugs that you find here. There were a few changes to non-marketplace pages (ex. Gallery, Freestuff) needed to integrate some of the marketplace changes, so you may see some issues there, too.

Here are some questions you might have:

The site was working fine for me, why did you have to change it?
This website is made of many softwares and systems, like PHP, AWS, different plugins, frameworks, etc. All these technologies are updated and improved (or deprecated) yearly as computing tech gets better and best practices are refined. In order to capitalize on these improvements, Renderosity has to make changes too, many of which are behind the scenes. Otherwise, the site would become outdated over time and a code nightmare to work with. That means slower fixes for things that are already broken, longer time for new features, among other issues.

X was working fine before, why is it broken now?
We are writing completely new code, not just making edits to old code. We essentially built a new site with newer coding technology that does what the old site does, but is faster and easier to maintain. X is broken (for now, we will fix it) because its inner workings are completely different even though it looks the same on the surface.


Thank you all for your patience with any potential issues. We hope you enjoy the new marketplace :)