Better plugin config presets

[kalilistic]

Presets right now are in a discord channel. This is hard to track/search/manage/version/etc.

[philpax]

I considered writing a simple site to upload presets last year, but shied away when I thought some more about the categorisation / author profiles / editing functionality / versioning that might be necessary.

That being said, +100 to this. I'm going to be very blunt about this: storing presets in a Discord channel suuuuucks. It's awful. It's impossible to meaningfully navigate, and it's an awful fit for the problem of providing configurations for dozens of plugins by hundreds or thousands of people.

[NadyaNayme]

This is a decent-ish use case for Github Discussions but discoverability of Discussions is kind of shit. Being able to use the category filter would make searching for presets of a specific plugin much easier. Editing is built in and if edited edited v works as a poor man's versioning since you can see historical edits (versions for this use case), author profiles would be managed by Github. Could slap it all under goatcorp/Plugin-Presets and just link people directly to Discussions.

Just a minimal effort suggestion while trying to slightly improve using Discord - which is quite awful so isn't a very high bar to meet.

The biggest downside is sharing a preset would then require making/having a Github account. But any solution that is offering any reasonable amount of functionality would probably require account creation anyways so what's the difference between some simple site and Github at that point?

[philpax]

Generally agree, but with the caveats that most of our users don't use Github and a bespoke website could use some kind of SSO to make it easier. Would be nice to use GH functionality and avoid the actual work, though.

[goaaats]

I think this is a good idea, if there's people that want to do it. IMO, switching to GitHub issues isn't really an option, due to the account requirement. If anything, Discord forums would probably be a better intermediary solution if they ever get to us.

[kalilistic]

Any chance this would fit into wago.io? I know Delv UI already uses them for profiles.

[goaaats]

From what I can gather, wago is very slow and selective at adding new addons to their system. Don't think they would want to accomodate us, but maybe it's worth a try.

[karashiiro]

I have a mostly unstyled prototype set up here, along with a basic contributing guide: https://github.com/goatcorp/plugin-platform

If anyone's interested in building off of it, I created some issues with the major tasks that still need to be done 👀