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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: People should search moreWhat can I say Beel. Considering I was one of the primary people invovled with a CMS project that has over 100,000 downloads and with a network of web sites that did 250 million page views in the 90s, you might as well hang your head in shame back at the farm. As is typical of most php-development sites, if you aren’t “in the know” then you’re just another uneducated newbie looking for the ftp warez mailing list. The 10% don’t bother dealing with what the 90% will experience and would rather fight City Hall than manage the expectations.
(1) Time is valuable to some of us. We don’t need/care to spend extra time learning YABSS because you want to use it. Considering how popular vbulletin/phpBB clones are, kudos to all of you on reinventing the wheel in a more crude fashion.
(2) It should have been obvious that numerous people will never have seen the bbPress forum so you should have a short FAQ link on the support home page. Instead you have it cluttered with all sorts of topics in varying fonts because it looks cool but it looks more like a disorganized, unchaotic, unprofessional mess.
What typically happens is that people turn away who actually could be of significant use because they don’t care to bother. Project never reaches potential and dies somewhere midstream.
It seems that all of you smart asses still have an answer about the organization of themes, plug-ins and add-ons in one master location. Go pat yourselves on the back. We’ll see where this project is in a year if something so simple like this isn’t done…
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: People should search moreAhhhh…. nothing like a smart-ass reply.
(1) The forum is inadequate and you have dozens of repeat questions because the forum and search are inherently poor. There’s no simple way to find your own thread either.
(2) Regarding suggestions, I made one and your reply is even less helpful which is “don’t complain because we’ve talked about it.” This site is so difficult to navigate that it’s hard to know who is doing what, where, when and how.
(3) I’ve spent my time trying to get WP to work properly as one would expect it to work. It’s not smooth and as much as I hate to say this, it has a ways to go until I would use it on a site that people who are not very familiar with ftp/apache/linux and how it works.
My suggestion: How about explaining why my suggestions were talked about in the manner of the People’s Front of Judea but it all resulted in just talk? At the most basic level could nobody put up a phpBB board for support? Could nobody create a forum for “final themes” and “final modules” just like done at vbulletin.org, phpBB and dozens of other places? If everyone here is so smart as you imply, why has no one just done this?
If you want a volunteer, I’ll host the damn thing but I doubt that is what the problem is all about. I’d sooner dump WP and pay $150 for Expression Engine or something similar than waste endless time trying to figure out basics. Don’t take my tone as too snippy but try to think what it’s like when you rail on someone who comes to a site that really is not well organized and the easiest thing to do is lob some fireworks and see who notices the spark amongst the chaos.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: People should search moreThe disorganization here is incredible. I’m not a newbie and it took me a while to figure out how to do simple things using wordpress other than just setting it up initially. The problem is that the forums are just not conducive to finding what you need. I’d sooner put up a phpBB forum and bedone with it.
Second there is no organization of efforts. There is no section that provides a list of completed plugins, themes, etc. It’s a bunch of different places trying to compile things for the benefit of others that is a constant effort.
The sooner this place is organized the better.