# Thoughts on this new node? node-red-contrib-components

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/thoughts-on-this-new-node-node-red-contrib-components/30279>\
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**Created:** [18 July 2020 01:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/thoughts-on-this-new-node-node-red-contrib-components/30279 "2020-07-18T01:36:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ollix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ollix/32/27306_2.png) [@ollix](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ollix)\
**Post date:** [17 August 2020 08:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/thoughts-on-this-new-node-node-red-contrib-components/30279/8 "2020-08-17T08:50:56Z")

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Hi folks,  
sorry I missed this conversation. I saw regular downloads, but until now did not really expect a discussion. Thanks to @Steve-Mcl, I learned, that people do use my nodes, so I have to bring some more focus to the forum.

It makes me think, that some (or most?) of you did not understand the purpose / intention of node-red-contrib-components. I tried to explain all of that in the readme. But obviously that was either too long or not clear enough.

Did you check out node-red-contrib-actionflows before? That was the node, I used a lot, until it occured to me, that their understanding of **interface** was not mine. But still, it is a widely used set of nodes and well done.

I am very pleased to see you guys being interested and I would love to discuss, how components could be improved and be made more useful.  
Starting with @Steve-Mcl suggesting a renaming, I invite you to talk about that in a separate thread:

> [@Renaming of node-red-contrib-components](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/renaming-of-node-red-contrib-components/31649):
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> Hello node-red enthusiasts, I published node-red-contrib-components in February, but never really cared to use the forum until now, that some users started to discuss about it. There is a suggestion by @Steve-Mcl to rename the node to node-red-contrib-subroutine. I am not so happy about that, since my original intention was to really get close to something like a component, which for me is a stand-alone piece of functionality, that can be reused many times. But maybe the difference between s…

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