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More than happy to take constructive feedback. There was only 1 person in the thread who offended me with their tone.

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Thanks for the feedback on the tags, thats a good area for improvement. I will also get those support pages done as well.

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Improve theme selection with more features selectors. For example, ā€œI want a Hugo theme based on Tailwind AND featuring fuzzy search AND Decapcms AND contact formā€ (even if your internal search already improves things a lot)

I think you can already do this, if I dont misunderstand the requirement. You can open the filters panel and select Hugo, Tailwind and say Contentful and it will filter them down. You can also combine it with search.

  • Scrap the Readme of each theme and offer to browse it from your platform (this is good for internal search, and SEO too, I guess ā€“ See also #86)

This is a great idea, there is a lot of great meta data to be gained from these files. We do already look at the README and package.json. The main problem is interpreting the data and pruning it down into structured content without generating to many false positives and or garbage. This is a problem I want to work on more, I think it will have a big impact if we can extract hugo specific meta data from the config.toml and theme.toml and module files.

Improve the way theme creators are acknowledged [#35 (Acknowledge theme creators and contributors: (#35) Ā· Issues Ā· Roneo / jamstack.club Ā· GitLab)

Interesting idea, I will play around with it.

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Iā€™m happy to chat with Mehedi about listing your themes. I can only sell themes have an affiliate program, and I didnā€™t see one on your site.

Regarding your open source themes, I found the repos to be overly commercialised. For example this repo GitHub - gethugothemes/touchy-hugo: Touchy is a minimal personal blog template powered by Hugo. This theme is 100% mobile responsive. - the demo url leads back to a product page where you charge $79 to purchase the theme. I couldnā€™t quite understand the relationship between the open source repo and the paid version. Are you just charging people $79 for the same open source version if they donā€™t realize they can clone it from Github?

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I didnā€™t see the filter selector, maybe it deserve to be a bit more emphasized?

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Great! Note that config.toml is being / will be renamed hugo.toml

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Yeah I worry its not obvious. Im not surprise you missed it. Likely I will turn it into a blue button.

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