Sonya*

By all the discussions around tags, please do not forget about following. I really would like to follow only tags for the apps I have bought. I do not know how tag cloud can solve my "follow" issue It is a horror when I think that I have to look "manually" through all categories and tags to find out if something new has been submitted. Thank you!

Also, what difference does it make if it's a module or a hook? Will one categorization over the other influence your buying decision? 

I agree with you. As I have written above, for user is not important if it is a hook or module. The user should only know whether this can be used with apps he run. Nothing more. I will not go through all these strange categories to figure out whether there is a hook or module or what ever else for IP.Gallery. I would like to subscribe to the category for IP.Gallery and get anything that deals with it and nothing more. Not look-and-feel, not user engagement and not maintenance. I am just interested in IP.Gallery. If this can be accomplished some way then I am fine. If no, then I do not how know to be notified about new stuff for IP.Gallery.

IP.Gallery is just an example. You can replace it above with any other app.

HeadStand, by the way we have found you calendar enhancements some weeks after we have written almost identical functionality ourselves. That's why I suggest to differ by product and not functionality or by hooks or something else. If developers or IPS need sub-categories like hook then they can make them and place the things there. But for the user it does not matter and he will browse through the entire IP.Calendar or IP.Gallery or other app category.

It is for clients.

So still for me I am happy.

Most clients simply don't understand what "Hooks" vs "Modules" vs "Applications" means.

Agree. But why you are sure that they understand what Maintenance, Integration and IPS extra mean? It is the same "strange thing" for them like hooks, modules and applications in my eyes.

Many addons are not specific to a single app (i.e. a group name indicator is not for board or gallery or downloads, it's for all products).

Make a category core or IPS community suite like feedback board. Right now I do not know where I should search for PM addons or for bbcodes?

Look at ANY existing marketplace out there. Amazon, ebay, Apple, Android, etc. They categorize by function.

For me they are categorized by subject and not functions. Shoes are shoes (yes, it's a woman ). Shoes are not "look-and-feel", they are shoes. Car is something for men (I guess ) and not "driving". Toys are toys a not "play with kids". Generally every thing can be used to play with kids, not only toys.

IP.Blog - is something that I bought and run or not. If not, I do not need add-ons for it. I do not need car spray if I do not have a car. So I would not look into this category if I have not purchased IP.Blog and would not waste my time.

Applications - are new apps (completely new functionality), do not depend on what I have bought so far or not.

Modules can be subcategory to the app where the module belongs to, for the user there is no need to differ though.

Hooks is extended functionality to what I bought or not. 

Add descriptions to the categories (is there description field for category?) to explain briefly what Applications are and what hooks are. 

How I see it:

IP.Suite

- hooks

- modules

IP.Blog

- hooks

- modules

IP.Content

- hooks

- modules

- databases

- blocks

- skins

IP.Gallery

- hooks

- modules

3rd party apps

  here no categories at all, for me there is no need to differ between hook, application and module or functionality.

Skins and design 

- emoticons

- badges

- icons

Language packs

Now I can look through the categories and see what IPS.App(s) I've purchased and subscribe to the mathced category, no need to know if there are new hooks, modules or blocks or something else. This is something that I can generally buy to extend my functionality. If I do not know what IP.Downloads or IP.Nexus are I will not subscribe. Then I decide if I would like to be informed about every 3rd party apps. I am generally interested in every 3rd party app, I cannot say right now if it would deal with security, social engagement (what is this?) or with look-and-feel. Just every new application that I probably buy or follow to see how it is reviewed to buy later.

These categories can never exist.

These are not categories, but items as example inside category for 3rd party apps. Please advice me how do I subscribe to tags? Does IPS still need clients for 3rd party apps? I definitely will not subscribe to each category to get only add-ons for IP.Gallery and 3rd party apps. I have no time to look through everything that is added to Marketplace. 

Means, the new structure is nothing for developers and nothing for clients. But it is something that IPS likes 

The only sane thing for me would be a structure by add-ons to IPS apps:

IP.Blog

IP.Downloads

IP.Nexus

IP.Content

--- Blocks

and so on (with multiple assignments to category if add-on support more than one app)

3rd party add-ons:

- Garage

- Classifieds

- Social Groups

- and so on

Skins and add-ons to the skins

Language packs

I do not know how I should subscribe now. To what category? E. g. I do not need anything for IP.Nexus, I am not interested in this app as this is encoded. I do not need anything for IP.Downloads, do not use this app. I will not prolong IP.Content, so no need for IP.Content blocks either. But I am interested in anything that belongs to IP.Gallery and any 3rd party apps extending functionality like Global Sidebars, Points system, Tutorials and so on.

Please suggest and instruct me - what category I should subscribe now to get notified about new stuff for IP.Gallery and new 3rd party standalone apps only? Any idea? I am a client, but I can buy new stuff only if I will be notified about new stuff, right? So HOW would you like to notify me with this strange structure about new stuff I am interested in and am potential client for?  Can I subscribe to the tags? Are the tags pre-defined or depend on creativity of the developer and I have to guess how he defines it? 

By the way, can you please tell me what Multilang System or [you]-tag have to do with Performance? http://community.inv...43-performance/

And or what a notifications to new file has to do with maintaince http://community.inv...-notifications/ ?