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Hello module devs,
I love you I really truly do cause without you our sites will be umm html sites where we'd have to add everything by hand but there's few things you can't seem to grasp.
Why oh why you use classes and id's from the core CSS, please stop being lazy and create your own cause the core ones simply suck and it doesn't give a consistent look to our sites, it gives a tabled dull sort of xls feel.
Don't be secretive and share with designers, not community, your ideas of the module so you can get pertinent input about what's really going on today design wise...not too many people otherwise you'll get dizzy cause of the flow of ideas
Stop looking at your predecessors for any reason other than seeing where they failed, don't copy / paste templates and be imaginative
Stop using icons that symbolise and mimic folder icons in windows that's not retro is not geeky and it stopped being cool about 10years ago.
Stop adding features just for the sake of having a full page of features, think small and develop further ones based on feedback on current releases.
On the same note, I rather have a module with +3 brilliant features which is released every few other months then to wait for a +100 features module to be completed in over 1 year...you risk being out of trend before a final version.
Don't reinvent the wheel as its daunting and you take forever to develop and complete a module. By that i don't mean copy / paste !
DON'T start 2modules at a time cause your bound to have more bugs than expected and your 2modules will look the same I mean really the same
Encourage competition, even if your competitor does a greater thing u can learn from its mistakes and create something even better but do it without postponing releases... you can always add your new stuff to a later version. And trust me no one builds a perfect module!
Look outside your ecosystem for inspiration otherwise you create just another module which will only get you reviews out of politeness even tho you lost night after night coding it and the reviews will only acknowledge the work but not the product.
Don't tie into 3rd party frameworks such as "smartobject" or "frameworks" everyone secretly hates both!
Anyway I do appreciate your work but you really need to make new battle plans
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