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2024

Why buying plugins won't give you a right for support

I provide support for the Premium Plugin ItemsAdder. And throughout my time doing this have I encountered lines like these:

  • "Can you finally add support for x?"
  • "I bought this plugin, so why won't my issue be solved?"
  • "No update in ... did the dev abandon the project?"

Some of these lines may sound extreme, but I've encountered them before at least once. And not just with ItemsAdder, but also other (often times not even premium) plugins.
And they all have one thing in common most of the time: The user thinks they have a right for support, because they bought (or simply use) the plugin. This couldn't be further from the truth.

Do not use the Essential Mod

The Essential Mod1, not to be confused with the Essentials Plugin2 or its updated Fork EssentialsX3, is a mod that tries to be a all-in-one solution for players similar to what you imagine with Mods like LabyMod4 or the 5zig Reborn5 Mod.
The issue here is, that it has a lot of problems, making it a worse mod and not really a good choice to begin with. This post will cover all the points I managed to gather from the community over the years I've heard of this mod. Enjoy.

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  • 10 min read

How to use JDA-Utilities' EventWaiter

If you're developing a bot with JDA1, changes are high that you want to implement a system where your bot is waiting for an input from the user after performing a command or action.
Doing this in JDA can be a bit tedious, especially if you want it to do things such as having the action expire after no input for a while. This is where JDA-Utilities2 comes into play. And this is where this blog post will explain how to use it and especially its EventWaiter functionality.