Important update on William278 Plugins for Minecraft

As a number of you have noted recently, I have been inactive and slow to reply on this Discord, and more pertinently - very slow when it comes to releasing updates for my projects.

What happened

I'd like to offer an apology for this unexplained absence. The reason is that I've been super busy with real life in recent months, and no longer have the time to proactively engage with you to help solve issues, aside from carrying out essential behind-the-scenes maintenance tasks and merging pull requests. Accordingly, I have:

1. Disabled tickets - as many of you have noticed for awhile
2. Removed documentation from the resource pages that mentions 'support' or 'tickets' on Discord as I can no longer promise this.

I have also considered delisting the resources altogether or re-listing them as free resources, but there's practical problems with actually doing this on the various marketplaces (Spigot in particular), and I feel like doing this would be annoying and more of a slap in the face than it would be to leave them up - and I know a number of people actually depend on API endpoints that query data from the marketplace pages. At the same time, I do acknowledge it's problematic to have unmaintained resources listed for premium purchase. I can only ask for your understanding caused by this Catch-22 situation.

What's next

Therefore, what I am looking at doing is essentially arranging a transfer of the primary maintainer to an interested, qualified developer who can maintain my core set of plugins; HuskHomes, HuskTowns, HuskSync, HuskClaims, likely as free plugins (but potentially paid; though this would require more complex commercial discussions). Velocitab and PAPIProxyBridge are a separate matter; these is already primarily maintained separately by my good friend AlexDev and may be discussed separately. My libraries, ClopLib, Toilet, PagineDown, DesertWell and Uniform are also in-scope. My website is broadly not in scope. My game projects are not in scope. This Discord may be in scope depending on circumstances.

My plugins are all licensed under Apache-2.0; this license is permissive (which means that anyone can copy the resources - minus the trademark/branding elements which the license reserves). However, formally issuing a transfer would be a much smoother transition for everyone as site policies rightly prohibit unauthorized relists.

If you are seriously interested in taking on my plugins (and really, I would need someone/some team professional and technical enough, with the bandwidth to actively take on these projects), or have some other proposal for reorganizing the structure of these projects to help me, please email me with your Discord, or reach out if you are already in contact. Instructions for obtaining my contact information are below.

If you need help in the meantime

In the meantime, if you have purchased a resource and need access to the alpha downloads section, please send me an email (my address is linked on the contact section of https://william278.net).

I'd like to once again thank everyone sincerely for their devotion and understanding, as well as the nice (as well as the tougher, not-so-nice) comments over the years. It really does mean a lot to me. There's still more fun things and projects to come for me in the future, and even though I may be stepping back it doesn't mean I won't continue to contribute to these projects in the aim of making more user-friendly pieces of server software for your players to enjoy.

William