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generating interest
« on May 4th, 2011, 11:14 AM »Last edited on May 4th, 2011, 12:57 PM by Nao/Gilles
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84575

Thought this was quite true
Quick squiz at their posts tells me that the developers are kind of community-driven people... not driven by business.

Should turn out to be a very interesting project. That domain would be prime, too.
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Re: generating interest
« Reply #1, on May 4th, 2011, 01:03 PM »
Made your link clickable (see no problem with that. Feel free to re-edit.)
Well it's the first time I see a mention about the domain name, lol. I had a hard time getting it. Compared to the dozens of other names I bought before it at least. :p

All in all, nothing to add to the conversation -- they've pretty much said what needed to be said.

And yes, we're hostile against SMF but it needs to be said again: only in reaction to their behavior *after* we announced we'd fork them. Before this happened, well... Between late August and early November '10, the relationship was pretty okay, we were going to release with a BSD license, and we thought SMF incorporating our code into their main codebase would be good for their project.
But they didn't play nice (to say the least), so we closed that door for them.
If the team changes drastically, and we make friends with them, we'll reconsider. But right now, it's a big no-no.

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Re: generating interest
« Reply #2, on May 4th, 2011, 02:53 PM »
I don't want to see many critics from that site... They rape SMF every single time someone puts a subject, you guys should prove them Wedge it's twice more than what they think...

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Re: generating interest
« Reply #4, on May 4th, 2011, 04:32 PM »
Its a general observation, people generally bash SMF for its slow releases and lack of features relatively.
The way it's meant to be

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Re: generating interest
« Reply #5, on May 4th, 2011, 04:50 PM »
Quote from Dragooon on May 4th, 2011, 04:32 PM
Its a general observation, people generally bash SMF for its slow releases and lack of features relatively.
That was always the case in software development .
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Re: generating interest
« Reply #6, on May 4th, 2011, 07:50 PM »
Well, considering that it's put out 5 RCs in over 2 years... that's generally bash-worthy. And, it's not vB, so it's automatically kind of doomed.
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Re: generating interest
« Reply #7, on May 4th, 2011, 09:48 PM »
To me, everything that starts with "vb" is doomed...

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Re: generating interest
« Reply #10, on May 4th, 2011, 10:07 PM »
Thing is, I'm really not sure *why* vBulletin is successful. I can't see anything enticing or endearing about it.

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Re: generating interest
« Reply #11, on May 4th, 2011, 11:01 PM »
BTW and totally off-topic: Thank you for the wedgers badge... I'm going to cry and fart of joy :')

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Re: generating interest
« Reply #12, on May 5th, 2011, 06:12 AM »
Quote from Arantor on May 4th, 2011, 10:07 PM
Thing is, I'm really not sure *why* vBulletin is successful. I can't see anything enticing or endearing about it.
Because it got all the hype as the main player in the forum software world after UBB's popularity started dropping. Also for a long time it had a lot more features than other software and gained popularity from that as well.

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Re: generating interest
« Reply #13, on May 5th, 2011, 09:21 AM »
But now - what, is the popularity dropping, staying the same, or... increasing?
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Re: generating interest
« Reply #14, on May 5th, 2011, 09:22 AM »
At TAZ and a bunch of other places, there's a huge mindset that vB is best because it's most expensive - and nothing's going to change that. Not even as awesome as Wedge will be.
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