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I've seen your website before. I like it. But: Have you ever considered moving all this (in addition) to github? With every template in a subdirectory. Could make collaborating and bringing other folks in easier. Btw, thanks for not making everything with a colored background in the poster. I always feel like that's a huge waste of ink

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Thanks!

I've had a bit of feedback regarding opening up the site and allowing community editing/submission automatically. While I definitely see the value in this approach, I personally believe that the top-down approach is better with regard to quality, consistency and ease of use. I don't want to start a debate on the topic, but lets just say I am happy with the way things are and prefer to keep everything under my control, at least at the moment.

I think you'd find that there are other people who share your values regarding quality. Eventually, you might be able to share the work of maintaining the site with these people and the site will grow more quickly. (And maybe you'll enjoy seeing some new templates appear.) Otherwise, (I think) what will happen is that you'll get tired of maintaining the site and updates will stop.

Anyway, I'm glad your site exists and I appreciate your work.

Just to note that opening it up on Github doesn't necessarily entail a loss of control.

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