What packages that you use are in dire need of an update?

Which packages have you forked locally since they are no longer maintained and you need them?

Would you be interested in a community newsletter?

If yes, please provide us with your email so that we can send you one once we get organized

Would you be willing to financially support maintainers of community packages?

If yes, what would be your preferred way. If no, why?

Would you be interested in monthly hangout or remote meetup?

Would you be interested in a community podcast?

What are the things or misconceptions about Meteor in the market that makes people pass on a Meteor while choosing their next stack?

Are there packages that you currently own that you think are a good candidate to move under Meteor Community? If yes, please give us a link to GitHub repository.

What is your go to place to consume content about Meteor?

Simple-schema, Autoform, Tabular

I live in a country where the exchange rate between USD dollars and my country's currency is absurdly high

Most new comers'd prefer to use React to Blaze, and while surely Meteor is heavily pushing for React's adoption a sizable portion of the community is still running their projects with Blaze.

https://github.com/harryadel/meteor-accounts-saml

Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

Not my misconceptions but what I feel from others. Scalability, “not maintained” or slow development, no updated docs.

batch-insert, meteor-collection-hooks, meteor-roles, stripes-mongodb-extensions

Depending on how desperate I need them for my projects, I'd fork them and maintain it myself - and would gladly do this in the name of the community.

Good question. I heard of it when it was prior to v1 and have followed it's development since. When the right project came around the corner I took the chance.

Already proposed my list in the discussion :)

nourharidy:ssl (this needs some TLC -- throws console.log error saying "missing template)
swydo:ddp-apollo

They don't realize what a huge time-saver it is, being zero-config.

Forums for news, docs & written articles for detailed info.

Hype with React, that Meteor is not self-sufficient

Some NPM, but no Meteor packages. But I’m on 1.5.x, so I’m behind.

Not sure. Monthly small fee?

mdg:validated-method, juliancwirko:postcss, hwilson:stub-collections

redis-oplog, server-session

Would rather contribute to maintaining

Jcbernack:reactive-aggregate

Old and outdated perceptions. Lack of understanding.

Check atmosphere's tunguska name space.

aldeed/autoform (code + doc)
meteor/blaze (code)
twbs:bootstrap (security issues!)
fortawesome:fontawesome (update to fa5)
yogiben:* (mostly all)

yogiben:admin
others: moved on using mostly NPM packages

Standard banking transaction. No PayPal or similar service.

Missing marketing. New people don't see Meteor at all. Experienced people think it's outdated / deprecated. They don't see the link of the team behind Apollo and Meteor being the same.
There is no up to date blogs or similar out there and recent conferences on Meteor have had not much public exposure.

I have a lot packages but there seems to be no one interested in yet. Maybe in the future.

roles, slingshot, restivus, meteor-tabular

The maintenance of Meteor seems discontinuous and the future is doubtful. There's no clear line of action for the future. It is not clear who maintains the platform inside MDG and the frequency of news has dropped a lot.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums

react-native-meteor-offline; react-native-meteor; react-native-link-preview; react-native-modal-dropdown

my forks are on github/lc3t35

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Video tutorials/news, Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites), gitter

GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

barbatus:typescript, we already released adornis:typescript to satisfy the need for a working typescript compiler

something very transparent

meteor "is dying", the old argument

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

JobCollection, AutoForm, TabularTables

JobCollection & TabularTables

Whatever works best. Patreon?

That it seems semi abandoned.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

Meteor Docs / Guide, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

We don't have Meteor Developers. People thing meteor as something different than node based solutions.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Video tutorials/news, Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

People just belive that Laravel and .net and people have to use native code for apps, when it is just lists

https://github.com/meteor-vue/vue-meteor

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Video tutorials/news, Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites), Discord

kadira:blaze-layout, kadira:flow-router

I think the misconception about forgotten packages. Honestly, I kinda found my way on the packages and patterns to see what was better for me to use. But I miss some kind of standard to use as guide.

Meteor Docs / Guide, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

flow-router, alanning:roles

We are in need of better tutorials, code guidlines (for meteor experts, beginners and intermediate).

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Video tutorials/news, Forums

Monthly or yearly support, similar to other popular open source projects

An outdated view of meteor's technical capability and flexibility

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums

No dire, but: Blaze, AutoForm, FlowRouter

No preference. It should be up to the maintainers. I only care that the money gets to them (so stuff like OpenCollective might not be entirely motivating for devs).

Lack of (or narrow) full-stack development experience. Not understanding the difference between real-time and reactive. Not understanding what pub/sub is best for. Assuming that one should use the same DB for everything (e.g. nothing stops one from keeping Mongo for user data and other metadata only, and use specialised DBs for other work, like columnar stores, relational, etc). Meteor should come with a label: warning, easy to start with and use, but if you are careless, like anything, it's going to bite you in the back. Maybe the whole "easy and developer friendly" should be dropped, and instead advertise it as "sophisticated and full-featured", and a handful of examples of big applications built with it, like Qualia, instead of miriad website-like apps. And yes, it's best to tell people that if they don't need to build a web app, they should not use Meteor.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Meteor forums

manuel:viewmodel, vsivsi:job-collection

manuel:viewmodel, vsivsi:job-collection, jagi:astronomy-sort-behavior

Knowledge based on 2015, misconception about being a one trick magic pony. Poor communication and PR from MDG.

batch-insert (needs deprecating in favor of true batch insert with BSON conversion in Meteor)

MongoDB is required; Apollo has replaced Meteor

Meteor Docs / Guide, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

meteor roles and Kadira flow router

Most say that meteor is no longer a good option due to performance and that it is hard to do TDD in meteor

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

All the yogiben packages!

I could maybe do a subscription of like $10 a month or something. Id rather contribute if I have time.

Insecure (we need to update the security section!) Slow, outdated, not versatile. I disagree with all but then again I have never done huge production app...

Aldeed and security packages might be

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs)

Haven't run across any showstoppers.

I can imagine contributing to a Patreon campaign to support community packages. I think the harder question, though, is how to spend the money that comes in.

I think the primary conception is that all the development energy has moved on to other platforms. It's partly true, but it's also a self-stoking cycle. I think the community would be in much better shape if there weren't monthly 'state of meteor' threads on the forum.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums, The Docs and the Guide are great -- clear language, and very good coverage of the framework. Would love to subscribe to a good Meteor podcast.

https://opencollective.com/

Small and shrinking community / hype. May or may not be true.

https://github.com/matb33/meteor-collection-hooks

Meteor Docs / Guide, Forums

mizzao:sharejs, mizzao:sharejs-codemirror, vsivsi:file-collection, ian:accounts-ui-bootstrap-3

mizzao:sharejs, mizzao:sharejs-codemirror, vsivsi:file-collection, ian:accounts-ui-bootstrap-3

I'd rather contribute in-kind

Not sure. I personally wish there was more love for BlazeJS.

Maybe all listed above (packages I forked)

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums

jquery, comerc:autoform-selectize, fabienb4:autoform-semantic-ui, awwx:meteor-isolate-value, vsivsi/job-collection, philippspo/momentum-flow-router, gadicc:meteor-reactive-window, richsilv:semantic-ui-modal

Monthly contribution billed to my card

There is seemingly little effort into evangelizing Meteor so when HN posts crop up asking if Meteor is dead, there's little to combat that feeling.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

https://atom.io/packages/meteor-api

Few that I've heard back:
- Meteor is dead.
- It is outdated.
- what meteor?
- but we use react.

Most people don't know what meteor is!! Meteor could use some branding.

World need to know that there is a community or people who are still using and developing the Meteor.

I don't own this but I could help with maintenance.
`https://github.com/awatson1978/meteor-api `

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

It won't scale. It's slow. Everybody should switch to the hottest, latest and greatest framework because a big tech company uses it.

https://github.com/englue/meteor-publish-composite, https://github.com/matteodem/meteor-easy-search

Meteor Docs / Guide, Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

Not supported, not fashionable, performance, scalability

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Video tutorials/news, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

needs urgent update : https://atmospherejs.com => A way to deprecate packages seems the top missing feature
Needs update : tap:i18n
Other packages that would benefit from being part of community organization : kadira:flow-router, meteorhacks:subs-manager, matb33:collection-hooks, aldeed:collection2@3.0.0, zuuk:stale-session, cultofcoders:grapher, aldeed:template-extension, pfafman:filesaver, themeteorchef:bert, lmachens:kadira (and the related APM) (these package are all working as of today but would benefit of being maintained)

materialize:materialize in order to wrap it with a class so we can use it locally

I would need an invoice to be able to finance through my company. Also transparency would be critical on the way money is spent and the process of priorizing tasks. Maybe use opencollective ?

not production-ready and not able to scale (scalability is reachable but very few explanation on how to achieve it is available on the web)

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

many thinks it's old, dead, slow.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs)

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

FlowRouter, okgrow:analytics

Lots of bad press and wrong info floating around.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

collection2, autoform, simpl-schema

not modular enough, closed ecosystem, does not scale

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

meteorhacks:subs-manager

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub

I think having a comprehensive user/groups/roles package is critical.

I mainly use the diaconuttheodir Apollo and grapher packages. I have forked and contributed. Fortunately, very well maintained

False perception of poor performance

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

autoform, meteorhacks:subs-manager

thebarty:autoform-formattable-radios, thebarty:modal-prompt-bootstrap

Would support when my projects are commercially successful

thebarty:denormalized-views

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

They don't understand the value of fast and production ready prototyping which can take you far before you get stuck.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Video tutorials/news

autotoform-ionic, camera-ui, mdg:camera, arillo:flow-router-helpers, meteoric / meteor-ionic, nicolaslopezj:router-layer, yogiben:admin, sach:flow-db-admin, meteor-useraccounts (!!!!!), CollectionFS:*,

Regular payments, eg. Patreon maybe? Or something similar. Or I use Brave and could set up regular donations of BAT...

Not up-to-date, no momentum... I really think the removal of a "free" hosting like it once was, eg. "myexample.meteor.com" really broke a lot of the docs, showcases and pulled the rug under a lot of positive demo-ability.

The MDG isn't really putting enough resources in shaping the community and the communication I feel.

There need to be some more "thought leaders" that carry the flag / torch and break into new frontiers and show what is possible and how to be creative with meteor.

Meteor from the outside maybe looks like "just another framework" while honestly it's the best thing since the command line and it should be marketed thusly. Its core principles are still sound and it should be sold on its merits.

Meteor forever! :)

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites), Mostly I google what's up and read from there. Unfortunately I don't like the forum layout, I'd prefer if it'd start from https://forums.meteor.com/categories like an old-school forum so that I can see all topics... but maybe that's just me. The default seems cluttered and unfocused to me. I'm not a community guy yet I'm afraid.

barbatus:typescript; blaze; *:mocha (testing is still an abomination - pure functions, at least, should have a no-brainer solution!)

Project is dead; it's 'too much magic'; SPAs don't make sense for use case

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums, History.md along with the docs

Dying, doesn't have the newest hottest feature, scaling

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums

Meteor Docs / Guide, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

meteortesting:mocha, reywood:publish-composite, kadira (currently using lmachens:kadira), matb33:collection-hooks

GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

aslagle:reactive-table iron:router

IMHO many people think Meteor is no longer developed and effectively dead

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Forums

ryw:blog, tap:i18n, iron:router, force-ssl, dburles:google-maps

That it is heavy/slow. New modular loading structure solved most of the issues.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Video tutorials/news, Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

Meteor Docs / Guide, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

mdg:validated-method, blazejs, juliancwirko:postcss

Leadership / Lack of direction

Forums, Stackoverflow (Stackexchange sites)

Meteor Docs / Guide, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums

https://atmospherejs.com/meteorhacks/aggregate

https://atmospherejs.com/meteorhacks/aggregate

Using meteor means tight couponing backend with frontend. meteor does not support redux! Meteor has a gatekeeping problem. see this comment section (My thoughts on the tech side) for instance.
https://github.com/codebuddies/codebuddies/issues/1136#issuecomment-479545451

Sometimes it feels like there are no facepalm picard emoji to express my feelings.

Meteor Docs / Guide, GitHub, Written articles (Medium, Blogs), Forums