After spending $1000 on the Propack (or whatever is called), and about 6 months of suffering ... and perhaps $300 more on mods ... I just could not stand the bugs anymore.
Therefore I went back to my OLD custom application. Now I have the task of moving some 20K members that I added when I used dolphin ... but it just feels good to go back to something I can control.
I am sorry for all you guys that are suffering with Dolphin. It is just NOT good enough. It is ok for dinky little websites with at most 5K members and where most members have very little friends. (Remember my complaints about having 78 friends and the time it took to look them up in the database .. about 35 seconds !!!!) But for me with 78,000 users, it was just not fast enough .. full of bugs, support was awful, it is just a BLOB of code with a lot of promises, and very little truth to it.
www.amistad.com (friendship.com in Spanish) is back to its roots. NO MORE DOLPHIN !!! AHH ... It just feels good to be able to scream that OUT LOUD!!! Perhaps I will pick up that RailsSpace book in Amazon.com that teaches you how to build a Social Network with Ruby on Rails ... and keep building up my own unique site.
SOOOOOO LOOOOOOOONG !!!!!!!!!!
Keep dreaming !!!!
