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Nao

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #45, on July 30th, 2012, 09:44 AM »
So, bloc has once again changed his mind after stopping Viennabbs and restarting it a couple of times...

http://www.blocweb.net/?topic=50.0

He wants to strip SMF down to nothing and do a v3.0 that he'd call v0.8... Or whatever it means ;)

Tag-based systems aren't exactly new. Take Vanilla for instance...

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #46, on July 30th, 2012, 10:05 AM »
So he's dumping VBBS on Deejay?
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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #47, on July 30th, 2012, 03:19 PM »
Whatever, it's just yet more going round and round and round from him. Waste of time if you ask me.
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Nao

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #48, on July 30th, 2012, 06:38 PM »
Why would he dump ViennaBBS on Deejay...? He has only two posts over at that forum.

Pete, it's indeed a waste of time, but with some pop-corn it's still enjoyable :P

Oh, BTW, a similar WTF topic:
http://www.viennabbs.org/index.php?topic=42.0

Bloc:
"Wedge (...) has 2 devs so utterly sure they can do everything better themselves that I left in a - sadly - agitated state."

We never said that, of course. But if he thinks it, it must be the truth...

"Wedge is..well, not sure where its going now, maybe as a more of a SMF tweakers choice? Certainly not a themers choice lol, its gotten way too code-centric already. They want to improve things all over, good, but theres nthing new there really, just rewrites..IMHO anyway, others may disagree of course."

A tweaker's choice, I guess that would be either ViennaBBS or EosAlpha, since Wedge ditched compatibility with SMF from day one...!
Code-centric, I've never seen such a bad analysis. Wedge is WAY better than SMF and ViennaBBS when it comes to theming. It gives so much freedom to themers, it's even quite amusing that Bloc would actually criticize Wedge for its theming just because it doesn't do theming the way he likes... (Even though he seems to have taken cues from us in his latest works, according to his blocweb posts -- see doing inherited styles instead of replacement styles.)

Nothing new? We have an entire board full of topics describing the new features... And that's only up to rev 700+, i.e. over a year ago! We added dozens more features in the meantime...

And Xarcell, obviously a very well informed user... (One of the many who posted here asking for some stuff, and then leaving when we refused...)

"Wedge is crap in my opinion. Yes it may have a better more efficient engine, but the car as a whole blows."

Yeah, sure! It blows way past SMF :lol:

Arantor

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #49, on July 30th, 2012, 06:55 PM »
*shrug* I've got enough things going on without worrying about these people who dislike our attitude but criticise because of it, not because of they've actually tried the software.

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #50, on July 30th, 2012, 07:01 PM »
Yeah...

I actually tried registering earlier to respond, and it sent a confirmation e-mail to a dummy address so I didn't bother to re-register under another name... It's not worth it anyway.

I can't help but think that half of ViennaBBS's "original features" are 'inspired' by my work on Wedge... Probably not, but considering how he dislikes my theming capabilities, it's always funny to see his new themes are closer in spirit to Wedge than SMF...

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #51, on July 30th, 2012, 07:18 PM »
It makes me wonder how much of the attitude is just jealousy. I don't know, I don't really care, don't know why I'm wasting any energy on worrying about what they think.

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #52, on July 30th, 2012, 07:34 PM »
Here, chill out!

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #53, on July 30th, 2012, 07:42 PM »
That's the thing, every single time I begin to get my mojo back together, a clusterfuck of BS comes along and reminds me why sometimes it's not worth the effort, you know? Makes it very hard to remain motivated, especially when there are arrogant folks with heads so far up their own arses bitching about things they don't understand.

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #54, on July 30th, 2012, 07:50 PM »
Oh... Don't tell me Bloc has any influence left on you! :^^;:

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #55, on July 30th, 2012, 07:53 PM »
It's not Bloc per se, it's the attitude that goes with him, like a dog farting in the night - it wafts and permeates and you don't know where it came from but it smells awful.

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #56, on July 30th, 2012, 07:56 PM »Last edited on July 30th, 2012, 08:15 PM
Most of their comments are pure speculation based on what they partially read (since I'm pretty sure they haven't fully read everything), I don't think they have access to Wedge's code? Bloc was never a consultant, was he? They are merely judging the book by it's torn up cover, so I'd not take their comments seriously.
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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #57, on July 30th, 2012, 08:06 PM »
Bloc did up until a while ago but as far as I know he never used it, so most of his bile is based on what he's read, not what he's actually used. Xarcell has never had access and mostly takes umbridge about my attitude. Like the comment that he wants the 'old' Arantor back.

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #58, on July 30th, 2012, 08:49 PM »
I can't explain why people waste time  criticizing the work of other people even if they know nothing of it (Xarcell's quote is paradigmatic :o).

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Re: Bloc Madness
« Reply #59, on July 30th, 2012, 11:11 PM »
Poor kid must wake up with pee in his cereal every day. *Yawn* not worth watching
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