I would like just to say that I agree with the answers of the Staff.
I currently run a couple of communities and I used to be active part in many others in the past, and I know how difficult is taking care of the whole posting activity when the community grows fast.
As a developer I can even say that it is difficult to develop something when you have to support it too. The core part of each community are finally the users, without them and the help they could provide each others you cannot properly define a site a community.
I like evolver answer, because I can see myself past history in some part of his post, and that's because I've decided to post my opinion too.
IntegraMOD is a big and really good project. IntegraMOD has been the first premodded I really liked and used live on a couple of website.
I really hope you will keep up the good job here, and release a new good package soon.
Thank you.
Statistics: Posted Author: Mighty Gorgon — Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:00 am
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An one comment, I think there are a whole bunch of people out there who are putting time into integraMOD. Trying to understand the code, and indirect trying to help developers to solve bugs <img>.
Not everybody can be in the dev team, but we all can help the dev team. I call it synergy 1 + 1 = 3 (hope I say it right, I translated it out of Dutch) And yes we can count in Holland, but what I wanted to say 2 people know more than 1 on it's own.
Statistics: Posted Author: obiku — Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:52 pm
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It is very encouraging to spill your guts out.
Everybody gets everything out of their system, and then they kiss and make up. I love it! Make room for me!
I too asked many questions and have not always received answers. I looked and tried by myself, and guess what? I succeeded.
I think it s part of the fun. You feel really proud after fixing something all by yourself.
I don t know any other support for CMS communities.
I did my research and came up with two winning CMS's: IM, Joomla.
Though people told me that 'SMF' is far more reliable and efficient than 'phpBB', I found IM much more appealing.
As I said somewhere before, I am a software programmer (JAVA) and I must say that, I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A CLEAN OOP (Object Oriented Programming) CODE IN MY LIFE.
I have only been in the PHP field for 2 months, but I hope to be more helpful and contributive in time.
I love you all and I feel like I can trust you.
(especially Adrian)
Statistics: Posted Author: MadUser — Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:00 am
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Good we need people like that. And as for the script that worked very well?...
Release 141 already!! the suspense is killing me! hehe
Statistics: Posted Author: Flex — Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:23 am
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Statistics: Posted Author: Helter — Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:35 pm
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http://integramod.com/forum/staff.php?s ... 5e5e867d7a
I realise some of these guys would have been really helpful in the past, but why keep them as mods, when they don't even visit the forums anymore
Statistics: Posted Author: Flex — Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:08 am
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"computerz";p="15095" wrote:
wow .. awesome post evolver...
man, i really feel bad now making this thread.. but i'm able to take something positive from this.
yeah group hug everyone.. we're all in this together.. this is OUR project.. lets make it the best!
[flash=,:37t96oja]http://rpghq.org/cheers.gif[/flash:37t96oja]
--EDIT--
And after a touching post like that, recognizing the man who made it, who demonstrated therein much dedication and sacrifice, I say we name the project eVolver 1.0.
wow .. awesome post evolver...
man, i really feel bad now making this thread.. but i'm able to take something positive from this.
yeah group hug everyone.. we're all in this together.. this is OUR project.. lets make it the best!
[flash=,:37t96oja]http://rpghq.org/cheers.gif[/flash:37t96oja]
--EDIT--
And after a touching post like that, recognizing the man who made it, who demonstrated therein much dedication and sacrifice, I say we name the project eVolver 1.0.
I have to agree with computerz.. that was a great answer evolver!
Statistics: Posted Author: Dioncecht — Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:27 am
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man, i really feel bad now making this thread.. but i'm able to take something positive from this.
yeah group hug everyone.. we're all in this together.. this is OUR project.. lets make it the best!
[flash=,:271ihm7g]http://rpghq.org/cheers.gif[/flash:271ihm7g]
--EDIT--
And after a touching post like that, recognizing the man who made it, who demonstrated therein much dedication and sacrifice, I say we name the project eVolver 1.0.
Statistics: Posted Author: computerz — Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:55 pm
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It can be difficult to change concentration from one version to another...
We are all hoping to get 1.4.1 out as soon as possible.
But every request for 1.4.0 can slow down the progress on 1.4.1, while maybe 1.4.1 has allready the answers to some of them...
Unfortunatly the final release is taking so much longer than expected, and many requests about 1.4.0 have been left unanswered...
It is sad...
Sometimes I just wish I could clone myself to make the other me concentrate on 1.4.0
And if it were possible, then why not a second clone to go to work for me so I can spend more time at this...
I think a lot of that will change when 1.4.1 finaly becomes released:
one version to concentrate on, and everybody happy...
Oh yes, how I would love to do this full-time...
But lets face reality, if I would quit my job, I wouldn't even be able to afford myself a computer to do anything here at all...
Paid supportsites don't have that kind of problem, while integraMOD developers can only try to do better...after hours, spending less time with family and less sleeping time at night (also causing bad concentration sometimes)
Sometimes I even dream of code...
These dreams always seem so important that I can't just get up when my alarm-clock sounds...
I really have to finish that code in the dream first, nothing can be more important...
Amazing how dreams can play tricks on us in such a way... <!-- s]
But there are some advantages:
We like what we do, while most paid support-sites will just do it for the money...
And we are not just trying to make it better for everyone, we are also trying to make it better for ourselves.
Nothing limits our support to answer a question, we can even add more spice to it, extra options...
Paid support-sites won't spend time on that, every extra time spent is just a big wast of time and money to them, so it's in their highest interest to answer straight to the point (OK, that's a good thing), but anything more than that would be wasted time and money and they will avoid that...
And last but not least...integraMOD supports everyones work...
Everyone can add new MODS, let others try it and maybe even get it integrated in a next version...
On most paid-supportsites you will loose support just by trying to change something by yourself... Before changing anything you should always ask them first, then only do as they tell you to, or you can certainly kiss their nice support goodbye...
I started looking for support here...
Then when I fixed some problems I became developer...
I didn't know anyone here, I was just a visitor trying to fix some bugs.
So I'm sure that anyone who can do the same, can become developer here...
So the big topic-question:
[color=red]Why aren't there more devs on this project?
can only be answered with another question]Why aren't there more people who try it themselves?[/color]
IntegraMOD is not only a usable script...
It's also something everybody can learn from.
I'm no PHPexpert, I just discovered what I can do by trying, searching for new ways (not only on integraMOD.com) and trying again...
I came here to look for support, and I never even thought I could give that myself...
With integraMOD, I haven't only discovered a portal-forum, I've also discovered something in myself that I wasn't even aware of...
And I'm not the only one.
I'm sure that there would be more devs if more people would try and discover what they can do...
Statistics: Posted Author: evolver — Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:30 am
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Statistics: Posted Author: Flex — Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:22 pm
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C'mon.. group hug <img>
Statistics: Posted Author: Dioncecht — Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:30 am
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There are very few places where you will find folks willing to atleast point you in the right direction, seems some forget that these guys get paid little to nothing for their help...
Statistics: Posted Author: grizzly_cs — Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:17 pm
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