Words of advice
selen
posted 14th of May 2008
in
Community Voice.
6 comments.
Boonex Dolphin is a disapointment, Now here me out, this is not a rant, only my assessment of a situation. Im sure I probably came across dolphin like everyone else, I thought, "Gee" Id Love to make a website just like (pick one, myspace/youtube/craigslist) and found it on google. And Im also sure that judging by the posting on this forum many of the folks who have downloaded this program are not tech wizards, only people that can get down with front page a little. Now the disappointment doesnt come from a program thats rife with errors(which it is) It comes from Dolphins lack of support and and disregard for folks time. Case in point, v6.1 "your final release" well thats obvious now that thats a load of crap. Ill wait patiently on your version 6.1 patch to come along just like I waited for the others.To make matters worse Im sure when the patch does come out, it will create its own set of errors and youll be silent as you have been with me when it comes to help. Now I know, I know, this is free software and these guys are doing thier best Bla,Bla. But the truth is this is NOT free software, Its a product that is being sold and is trying to be profited from just like any other software, were all just promoting and testing it using the free version, The Beta Version it seems. And thats where my biggest problem is. Dolphin it seems weather they are tying to or not are developing their software at our expense.which is actually ok wih me, just let me know ahead of time. Dont get me to download a program and then fill me in that I will have to mess with it again and again for who knows how long.If anyone at dolphin is reading this heres 2 things I think may help a great deal
1. Dont release versions, patchs etc. every week or two. it shows your only trying for the short term fix,just trying to make the forums happy. get your ducks in a row and get a solid product together.
2.Answer emails, even a simple auto genarated one to let me know youll get around to me whenever.
Ignoring people after all just seems to encourage long blog postings ;)
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Nice post, I have a few comments of my own on this.
I do believe that not everyone can be made happy when it comes to business, and if everyone held out on releasing something until it was perfect, nothing would be released.
Some of the greatness of boonex products is the ability for people and developers to mix and end up with a much better product in the end. And yes, it is a continuous cycle. I mean look at google, and how long have Google everything been in BETA, and will be for see more
-Citizen
-DolphinElite.com
Let me get the "Bat phone" email!
I agree, Having people and developers mix and end up with something much better is one of the hallmarks of modern web design,look at the success of myspace and others and even the reason we all have begun boonex websites in the firstplace are perfect examples of end users changing and catering a product to themselves that the developer could never have foreseen.
That I agree with, What I take issue with is getting a program that is advertised see more
its doubtful that boonex will fix anything for you or anyone else who uses this forsaken script. we are all just lab rats and they are prospering from our toil. dont get me wrong, i love dolphin/orca/ray because i like to ad hoc program (too lazy to write a program of this magnitude).
i have used most every available open source cms portal available to man on the internet, and none, hear what i say, none have support, its all a community effort, however within that community are the team see more
and maybe yes, it was a rant.
what do you know about database repair?