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Messages - DirtRider
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Off-topic / Re: Making a note for the future
« on December 8th, 2011, 02:14 PM »
Well depending on what work it is and who I am doing it for at times I get more reward out of doing it free than what I would if I was paid for it. Yes most of the free stuff does teach me a thing or two so I also get something out of it in that way
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Plugins / Re: Plugins I refuse to do
« on November 9th, 2011, 08:41 AM »
Funny I have found the blog function in forum software is not used that much by the looks of it
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Plugins / Re: Plugins I refuse to do
« on November 9th, 2011, 07:21 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 2nd, 2011, 04:08 PM
WordPress bridge

Seriously, why would we do this? We have blog support built in...


There may be more, but that's it for now at least.
You are looking at this from a forum point of view this meaning that the forum is your main site. However I find that a lot of people want a WP web site and a forum attached to that the forum being secondary. Now WP does have a lot of forum plugins but I have found them lacking in a lot of respects so if you could have a menu item in your WP site linking to a wedge forum that would be a plus for these types of web sites
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Off-topic / Re: Battlefield 3
« on November 3rd, 2011, 07:57 AM »
I have never heard of Skyrim before
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Off-topic / Re: Gallery Effects
« on October 31st, 2011, 02:17 PM »
lol well I am sure you will fix it in time
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Off-topic / Re: Gallery Effects
« on October 31st, 2011, 02:16 PM »
Yeah I know but this is not for a forum but a normal web site

Oh cool installed and it works a treat thanks again  :cool:
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Off-topic / Re: Gallery Effects
« on October 31st, 2011, 02:08 PM »
Thanks that is what I was thinking about. I am busy doing a site for a church and I need this effect but for the life of me I just could not think what it was  :whistle:
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Off-topic / Gallery Effects
« on October 31st, 2011, 02:02 PM »
Man my brain is fried, what is that pluging that people use for galleries or just viewing images when you click on the image it brings up that neat little popup box with the image inside it.  :^^;: I just cannot think of the name of it now  :hmm:
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Off-topic / Re: Battlefield 3
« on October 27th, 2011, 04:03 PM »
Quote from Dragooon on October 27th, 2011, 10:38 AM
It came out 2 days ago and it's a fantastic game, anyone interested in FPS should give it one shot. The SP kinda sucks but the MP is absolutely brilliant, plus the graphics are awesome and it isn't that demanding.
Will have my copy this side tomorrow  :cool: Why do you say the SP sucks  :wow:
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Off-topic / Re: Adding Value to the project
« on October 21st, 2011, 03:36 PM »
Quote from Arantor on October 21st, 2011, 02:22 PM
Except I have the feeling we're going to see it a lot because that's the standard we are going to be judged by initially, and that's understandable - except that if they wanted it to be the same as SMF, why aren't they using it? Answer: BECAUSE I WANT MY FREE SHIT EVEN IF I WON'T USE IT!!!!!! Yeah, you've probably figured by now that I assume the worst in people, particularly in users, until I have any reason to think more positively about them.
Yes people will be benchmarking it against SMF and that could be a good thing as well I suppose. Then I also suppose you will be getting the bulk of people that used SMF using it and only once the word is out have others from other platforms moving across. Actually I think it will be interesting to see what types of reaction you will have across the board.
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~45,000 posts in 2 years is crazy.
:wow: Boy I don't have anything near that on my own forum and I thought I posted a lot. :whistle: I actualy wonder what my post count would be in total on all forums I have posed on
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Off-topic / Re: Adding Value to the project
« on October 21st, 2011, 02:11 PM »
Quote from Arantor on October 21st, 2011, 12:38 PM
*nods* The best demonstration of quality is to let it show itself off, and that's certainly what I did with my mods over time.
That it sure does and I think some people don't realize that and lose a lot by it
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As for support, I don't really see that being too much of a problem. At first, the biggest issue is going to be settling down bugs we didn't initially find, but that's what beta testing is all about - and figuring out what's a support issue and what's a bug fix issue.
I cannot wait for the beta to come out it should be great fun playing with it and seeing the end result.
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I also predict a fair amount of 'IT'S NOT WHERE IT WAS IN SMF!' but that should be relatively short-term as people grow to understand the mentality in Wedge. All in all, the redesigned ACP should help with that.
Funny you are right and I really don't get that type of thinking as it's not SMF and that is the whole point. Its like changing a car brand and expecting the new brand to be the same as what you had. If that is the case just stick with what you had anyway  :whistle:
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Then again, my ability to post 100+ posts a day when I'm in the support zone will probably help... :whistle: (my peak was 530 in one day...)
Wow that is crazy  :lol:
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Off-topic / Re: Adding Value to the project
« on October 21st, 2011, 12:30 PM »
I would also only use DzinerStudio and BlocWeb when I was purchasing my stuff and I never had any issue with them so yes it is important to check out where you going to spend your money. Unfortunately when I purchased my first gallery I was a bit of a noob to SMF and did not do my research the way I should have  :eheh:

I think just from what you guys have done on SMF in the past anyone that has been around knows that your guys work is solid. Hmmm.... just thinking about when you do release this you may have a rush on support and only being the two of you really it may become a bit of a bind on your guys, I really hope not.
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Off-topic / Re: Adding Value to the project
« on October 21st, 2011, 12:06 PM »
Quote from Arantor on October 21st, 2011, 11:52 AM
That would require me buying a vB licence and learning to code for vB, neither of which is going to happen any time soon. There is more chance of my learning to code for xenForo than that - but I have Wedge instead ;)
Yeah I suppose it would take a bit of work to get into coding for VB and you would need the licence and it's not cheap either  :whistle:
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I want to be surprised by that, but I'm not. Given how poor some of the paid mods for SMF are, it doesn't surprise me to see that people are trying to make a quick buck with some trash on vB.
Yes well I know all about that as I paid for a mod and later just dropped it and purchased another one as the support was none on the first one
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To a point that's unavoidable. If you're modifying something inside a template with a mod, it's almost certainly going to have to modify the template to make it work. But that's only for very specific changes, for a lot of things the modular approach that Wedge has will remove that need.
Yeah I suppose most mods need to change the templates but most of the VB ones do all of that when you install them. Just some of then don't and I think maybe they are being done by noob coders and they don't know how to make it so it installs everything.
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Off-topic / Re: Adding Value to the project
« on October 21st, 2011, 11:47 AM »
I agree with what you are saying and this is why if you had to make a few great mods for VB and have the support to go with it you would have people breaking down the door to get them. Once I crossed over from free to paid I knew that just the cost of teh forum software would only be the start of it. Well I must admit up until now I have only really found the one paid mod I had to get and that was photopost. Overall being a paid platform I was expecting a higher quality of mods available and was prepared to pay for them. I was surprised to see this was in fact not the case here.

A lot of the mods are very manual when it comes to installing them as in having to actually edit your templates and insert the code. I am not a big one on these as I am not a programmer so even the simplest edit can become a huge issue for me  :lol:

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Off-topic / Re: Adding Value to the project
« on October 21st, 2011, 10:59 AM »
Well taking about a free forum software no I think you will not make much as most people take the free forum software and then want everything free and support by yesterday  :whistle: However when I was using SMF I always made a point of either purchasing the paid mod or a least giving a donation to my main mods, I feel it was just the right thing to do

If I look at vBulleting the guys that have done PhotoPost are making a killing as it's the only game in town right now. We purchased it and it is not bad but nothing near what you guys did here. So if you had to get this one working on vBulletin I am sure you would have a winner and make money on it. 

Another for VB that I could think about would be a Yellow pages they do have one but the guy has dropped it and it has bugs. Overall the SMF mods were done well considering it was all free