A community maintainer raises concerns about Obsidian's plugin review process, highlighting month-long approval times and the complete absence of update reviews. The author demonstrates security risks by discovering policy violations in community themes that remained unaddressed for over a year, arguing that the small Obsidian team cannot sustainably manage nearly 2,500 plugins. The letter proposes community-driven solutions for plugin maintenance and automated checks, emphasizing that plugins are essential to Obsidian's success and the ecosystem needs better oversight to prevent malicious code distribution.
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A sustainable plugin ecosystemA reason for concernPlugins are ObsidianLooking forward2 Comments
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