What about hiring out some outstanding Answerhub devs, giving them a small contract for “priority” support.
Make the Priority Support $25/month or so. Let’s say these contractors make $40k a year. Or less, doesn’t matter. But to pay them, we need $111 or so a day per dev, $3333/month.
Let’s say we see 1000 devs opt in. That’s $25,000/month for those devs for pri support. That’s roughly 7 additional solid devs. Coming from the community with lots of experience under their belt, especially Q/A and troubleshooting.
Maybe community devs/ contractors is out of the question…then what?
Pay full-timers extra money, bonus pay, or overtime with this influx. They work an extra few hours everyday from home or wherever.
I just can’t see why something can’t be done here. Just do something. Please attempt something. Maintaining the status quo is obviously not working.
Just a tad bit more effort could go a long way.