Hi Chris, and super thanks for the effort you have put into this.
(Even my little remar earlier is fixed J )
The reflection you point out between the "core" and the "others" I have noted as well. This is a little sad and scary for me that live quite close to this product and have found some way of make my living out of it.
Scary as I understand partly from own experience how it feels to start off with enthusiasm and end up liable for timetable and requirements from people that catch up on features spurred on what they see, but lacks understanding that it originally started off as enthusiasm from people like you, that understood and saw the opportunity plus for free started to work and contribute towards speedy improvements. Not encouraging for anyone and wee need the firepeople who keeps this community together. It’s a good machinery and creds to all of you that makes my life easier.
This needs to stop, all of us have to start to thing about our roles, hang arounds, contributors, core or ‘grab and runners’.
I saw in some other thread here somewhere someone talking about gratitude and healing lepra. (Forgot the name of the benefactor.). Remember we contribute in various ways, but negativism I have hard to see that as contribution, constructive criticism maybe.
(Got upset for a sec, but I’m fine now!)
Thanks again Chris! Now let’s see how we can make this to the next step. (I’m still thinking that profiling should be lifted out from the UI of the forum and inserted as plugin at the site “My settings” page.) J