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12-27-2009
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Actually several people released that for old vb versions(vb2, vb3.5). It would help if the products would work though. :/
There is one vb3.7 product that comes halfway, as the outgoing mails arrive. :s Plus it needs Gmail to work as a proxy. The coder has left vb.org some months ago, and has not supported the hack for 6 months. So that doesnt give much confidence. It would be very nice to have in your groups enhancement. |
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12-27-2009
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CEO, Engy
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the problem is that if i release it because some people asked for it, i would have to support it until it is forgotten, and most people would ask to upgrade to 4.x... so i would have to continue supporting it for years...
the best thing would be to force vBulletin Solutions to consider working with outsourcers like me... i'd be pleased to code these enhancements if they are purchased by vBSolutions and integrated in a new version... example, all my enhancements could be integrated in 4.1 which is planned in the next months... how pathetic to see that they use 4.1 just to debug their errors... |
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12-28-2009
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I'm not sure how many functionality requests I have posted in vb's suggestion forum. Probably hundreds. We will have to see if it has any use to suggest functionality to them. You have talked to Ray and see how that went.
They are hiring a lot of staff though, so hopefully that does promise something. I think that if you build this for vb4, then people will get used to it. vb will have to incorporate it at some point. Alternatively you can do the same as vbseo and ask a lot of money for it. |
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12-28-2009
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CEO, Engy
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hiring a lot of incompetents because they are cheap and show great portfolio does not mean they are useful for the project... they replace valuable staff with people who know nothing about vBulletin, it's like starting over on the wrong bases.
and if i ask a lot of money, like 50$ per engine, would you pay for them?... not sure. far from being sure. |
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12-28-2009
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vbseo $149. They have over 30.000 customers.
Photopost $149. Their forum lists 50.000 members. vb costs $285 now. Will be much more in time... $50 is peanuts. If an addon is good, stuffed with features, supported and fills a demand, then its ok to ask money for it. |
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12-28-2009
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CEO, Engy
Join Date: Oct 2007
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i know i can apply a fee on my big engines, that's what i do already... but as for the calendar thing, 4 subscribers in two months... because we have no advertising... photopost had a lot of advertising before vB 3.5 because they had an official forum on vb.org, like ibarcade right now.
same for vbSEO which had all these coders showing the link in their signatures on both vb.org and vb.com... and they paid a lot of advertising on google etc... which i can't afford. every situation have explanations, and as i always say, none of my client have to be involved in my loss or success, they can say i'm bright and glorious, that does not mean everybody is on the same opinion... ask "loret" about this... he now think i'm a moron... lol |
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12-28-2009
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Well, no person in their right mind is going to add much new 3.8 add-ons now, unless its certain that the addons are available for vb4 as well. vb 4.1 much just be bug free! lol. And theres no use adding stuff now, if an upcoming upgrade to vb4 will make you loose the same stuff.
So its a rather bad time to measure clientèle. I know several people that have offered 50 to 100 bones each, for a calendar - RSVP - event forum suite. Im one of them. By the bye: you just released a zillion 3.8 addons on vb.org so thats excellent advertising. |
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12-28-2009
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CEO, Engy
Join Date: Oct 2007
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you know, the persons who offered bones for a rsvp are now questioning their bones not because of the version 4, but that's not the only problem... most of the people who are on a 3.x version will require to be served for their 4.x as well, so i have to make sure the script can support both versions, or at least two versions to support everybody...
that's always the problem. i do not have 2000 clients, i have 5... not enough to pay the bills... 
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