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First of all, I think EE has a great list of features. There are a couple things I wish EE had built-in, such as a rating system for the photo gallery, and tags for articles. Of course, i see that solspace has developed these add-ons, and many more.

The question is: if a third-party developer has created an add-on for EE, does that mean that EE will no longer grow in that area? I would like think that the longer I stick with EE, the more features are added over time. Tagging seems like a natural expansion, and ratings should be a part of the photo gallery. With all due respect to solspace and other developers, how do you bring basic new features to EE if a third-party has already done some work on it?

Is the feature set of EE going to continue to grow in the future?

Thanks for any insight.

One word: Pages.

😉  RichardC is subtly pointing to the native Pages module, which was added to the EE code despite a third party module along the same lines.  So no- the existence of a third party script won’t prevent the same feature being added to the EE code.

Read our changelog as I think it makes it pretty clear we’re extremely active developers regardless of what 3rd party add-ons are being developed. And welcome to EE!

😉  RichardC is subtly pointing to the native Pages module, which was added to the EE code despite a third party module along the same lines.  So no- the existence of a third party script won’t prevent the same feature being added to the EE code.

Great! Glad to hear that. Thanks for the answer.

Read our changelog as I think it makes it pretty clear we’re extremely active developers regardless of what 3rd party add-ons are being developed. And welcome to EE!

Ah, thanks for the link. So is there also a roadmap? A ghost of christmas future?  😊

Hi tothemoon,

We are firmly against roadmaps. 😊

We are firmly against roadmaps. 😊

It’s nice to know your stand on that. Very reasonable roadmap policy. Thanks again for the help.

So, uh, when will ratings be released for photo gallery? I keed, I keed!  😛

Just after the e-commerce module.

Ask about that one. I dare ya 😉

Just after the e-commerce module.

Ask about that one. I dare ya 😉

Right after he asks about EE 2.0!

Sorting by a custom field in a weblog is another 3rd party extension that was recently brought in as a native function by EE.

We are firmly against roadmaps. 😊

It’s nice to know your stand on that. Very reasonable roadmap policy. Thanks again for the help.

So, uh, when will ratings be released for photo gallery? I keed, I keed!  😛

They didn’t say that a Ratings module for Photo Gallery or any other module WOULD be released. Just that having a module, plug-in, or extension that offers that functionality WOULDN’T prevent EE from adding the functionality directly to the system.