Reply To: New Email Template (Self defeating?)
Thanks for your feedback, @backpackersunion. I’ll let others chime in as I spent a long time working on the email feature, so it’s close to my heart, but here’s my thoughts:
- Decisions, not options.
- It’s much easier to add options than it is to remove options.
- It’s risky to add options or features unless you’re sure what your users want, so launching with a minimal feature set and listening to feedback and consensus helps us make informed decisions.
And the template, yes — you run the risk of the template going out-of-sync with the version distributed by BuddyPress. But this isn’t specific to the email feature, and could apply to any of BuddyPress thirty or so other templates.
We have some plans to add some communication around template changes in a feature release, like WooCommerce apparently does, which will help a bit.
