Please, do not take it personally. I am not trying to say anything bad about you or the rest of the team.
Maybe it is a trauma from living 30+ years in a very unstable country, but preparing for the worst case scenario is my second nature, and this approach proved to be a good strategy. That’s how you end up being the only guy with medical supplies in wilderness, when somebody gets hurt, poisoned, or bitten by a goddamn allergic sailfish. If good things happen instead - whatever, you have not lost anything, except some extra efforts for being a prepper.
I believe in your intentions and dedication, but MOD devices as a whole are anyway quite black box from the end users perspective, and as an end user I should not expect any commitments on behalf of the company that basically almost does not exist anymore to be fulfilled, if I want to minimize probable losses. Not because I think bad of you, but because that’s the nature of chaos. More personal and specific commitments might be more reliable, but I do not feel like I should harass some mod dev personally asking him when he will fix plugin store for me in his personal time while working fulltime elsewhere.
You might have the intentions, but just have no possibility I can only guess how bad things are. Do you have compiled plugins and firmwares on your hand? Have you lost access to your own assets, build pipelines somewhere in the cloud and workstations in the office? If there will be a new owner, what will be the new policies? Would former team members be in position to share assets to public legally? If I do not know the answers, I have to act according to the worst assumptions.
I do not make predictions, I do not say my assumptions are true. I believe most of them are not. But also I believe that my actions should be according to the worst expectations, and I hope this should not hurt you.
Facts given are :
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To preserve functionality of the existing devices at least at the level where disaster happened - all plugin binaries and firmwares should be available, at least as an archive so people could grab as much as they can from what already existed for the platform. Convenience does not matter that much as possibility at this point.
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Services are taken down without a notice. It is not known if they will be raised again. I understand that you guys want bring them back, but there is no ETA. Basically, most of the people do not have all the plugins, some have not updated their firmwares yet. We even got a newcomer in the Discord who does not know what to do with his new and empty MDX that he managed to order somewhere and have just received.
From the emotional side, it feels like we lost something we already had in our pockets, and I want it back. …my precious -
Services might be raised after some time, but theoretically we can get the opposite - forum going down as well, burying the chances of gathering plugins and firmwares by the community effort. No one knows why forum and wiki are still up and if we can expect them to be online further. While it is up - it might be a temporary advantage to use, even if it looks like a panic, whatever, I can endure joke or two on that, if precious time will not be lost.
And once again, my point of view on the further action is not related to my opinion on the MOD team members and their intentions and dedication, but to a lot of experience of unwanted participation in things going downhill. I hope that MOD will continue, at least because fx processors with a straight root access is something that should exist.