Plugin directory design

Let’s assume for a moment that we have forums at some point (I doubt we will at the start, but it’d be nice to have eventually).

We should never have security reports via the forums - that’s the wrong way to do it and we’ll need to take those kinds of posts down. The difference there between us and WP is that we’ll have a well-defined way of contacting both us and the author; if it turns out that something is in the wild and being exploited then we can post something to the forum in addition to the normal procedure of flagging the plugin as insecure.

That’s the one scenario I’m still thinking about how best to deal with - if you automatically disable the plugin you might break their site, but if you leave it alone they may well get compromised.

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