pols1337

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Aeva Blog
« on May 15th, 2012, 10:01 PM »
Hey Wedge developers,

I don't know if any of you would be interested in this side project but I really think SMF deserves a better blog system.  Would any of you be interested in developing like an Aeva Blog? 

Right now I'm using ADK Blog, which is perfectly fine ... except it doesn't allow an upload image function, which is a major drawback.  If you could cross-utilize the Aeva Media upload function of both individual files and batch upload to the Blog, that would be amazing. 

I'd be happy to make a small donation, say $10 - $15, to help support development of this. 

Joel

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Re: Aeva Blog
« Reply #1, on May 15th, 2012, 10:05 PM »
Not a hope in hell of us writing anything for SMF, to be honest. Wedge has a blog function in it too though it needs more work yet, and the whole point of working on Wedge was to build on SMF, not to work on SMF itself, for us working on an SMF mod would be a backwards move.

Why can't you, for instance, upload items to media and just embed them in bbcode-written blog posts? All you're lacking, really, is convenience, not core functionality?

(And if I'm being cynical for a moment, $15 buys about 20 minutes consulting time, which isn't even close to building anything.)

I do get what you're asking but I hope you'll understand why we can't consider it realistically ourselves.
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pols1337

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Re: Aeva Blog
« Reply #2, on May 15th, 2012, 10:26 PM »
Well, I was hoping that since you're Aeva Media is still very popular you would be willing to also write an Aeva Blog for those of us still stuck on using SMF.  There are only two blog modifications and the better one is ADK Blog, although it's severely lacking in attaching images.  My users have vociferously complained about using the bbcode attach image.   

If you *do* decide to write your own Blog, make sure you have an attach function for images!  All I'm really asking is that you copy over the "attach image" functionality from Aeva Media to your future blog function :) 

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Re: Aeva Blog
« Reply #3, on May 15th, 2012, 10:31 PM »
Well, it's not 'my' Aeva Media, but consider on the other hand that Nao was post-banned by the team for speaking his mind. It's only really been left there for their benefit.

Here's the thing, though, you're asking us to take a substantial amount of time out of working on Wedge (and due to personal stuff, I've not had a great amount of time for the last few months) to work on a rival to Wedge - and making that better, so it gets harder to make Wedge better as well. Not only that but we'll be expected to provide support for it (oh wait, Nao's post banned, I want nothing more to do with simplemachines.org and I REALLY don't want people here expecting SMF/Aeva support... Wedge exists because of SMF's ongoing failures and nothing more)

As I already said, Wedge already has blog support, it just needs to be made better and it already has the attach support for images (which is really just using the bbcode in the first place!!!) because it's really just using a board as a blog since really they're the same thing just with different presentation (both have topics, just in a slightly different order and putting more emphasis on the first post)

I guess I need to reiterate: THERE WILL NOT BE A BLOG PLUGIN BY US, FOR SMF OR WEDGE. We will not offer it for SMF, but it is already built into Wedge so it comes with the base package.

Re: Aeva Blog
« Reply #4, on May 15th, 2012, 10:51 PM »
People really need to read more nowadays huh, even english is not my "main language" I can fully understand the post or whatsoever people write in this forum, and that includes no support for SMF.

Actually, I do have a SMF2.0 installed on my server, but seeing all the benefits and functions of Wedge, I think the wait will be worth.

Besides, AeMe is the, without a doubt, best gallery software in the internet, I can barely see a problem with it but details.

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Re: Aeva Blog
« Reply #5, on May 15th, 2012, 11:10 PM »
That'd be like Larry Ellison (CEO of Oracle) asking Steve Ballmer (CEO of MicroSoft) to write an addon for Oracle that matches a function already in or in the next version of SQL Server.

It's a ridiculous and illogical request.

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Re: Aeva Blog
« Reply #6, on May 25th, 2012, 03:49 PM »
I tend to avoid any topics with 'Aeva' in their title, but this one is damn funny :P