I am appalled by the hostility on display in this thread. Please everyone keep in mind that Josh is a community manager; he does not make the decisions. Save your venom. It is entirely unprofessional. Josh is a real person and this is not Twitter. Have some dignity.
I am very upset by this change. I contract with Epic and this was not communicated to my team because we don’t work with the marketplace in any capacity, but I wish I could see the Slack thread where this was decided. To be a fly on that wall.
As others have pointed out, this is a poor decision that seemingly has no real solution in place. To completely remove a resource as valuable as questions, even abused as it is, is awful in and of itself but to not have a replacement ready for the removal is baffling from an agile software development perspective.
As a buyer, I’m going to be less likely to purchase much of anything. As a seller, I’m worried about people not buying my plugins because they’re less informed. Also as a seller, I can’t wait to field the same questions via email over and over and over.
Does anyone know the method to download the Q&A in JSON format? I’m not interested in joining yet another Slack instance and searching. Please post it here if you have it handy.