OMG this is amazing.
Question: what kinds of API/community features are going to be included? Just comparitively, Steam has (*deep breath*) achievements, trading cards, profile badges, mods, workshop, DLC, dedicated forums per game, screenshot uploading, stat tracking, (*out of breath*) and more. Are we going to see anything along the same lines? Maybe a trading card game that's more than fancy coupons, like something Triple-Triad-esque?
I do love that you're open sourcing it. A big problem I always had with the Desura launcher, for instance, was how stale it felt. Despite the fact that it made project management much easier than Steamworks, I never felt like it really let me experiment as a developer or businessman. Locking it out of community development (and the bankruptcy drama) certainly didn't help. I would love to see a section specifically for itch.io app mods to automatically install the latest or most popular community-made git commits for the app. We could see some really neat stuff!
Well, as you say, the beautiful thing about open source is that people don't have to wait for an `extension manager` or whatnot, that would let them code stuff within the boundaries we've carefully chosen... instead they can just fork it, add their favorite feature, then submit a pull request to the main project and hopefully it makes it into the 'blessed' version eventually!
Within a well-maintained project, a feeling of staleness should never happen. But also, we're just a few humans and it's all very early still, so... patience, patience!
