Customizing SMF > Portals, Bridges, and Integrations
Update on Official SMF Add-On
packman:
--- Quote from: Room11 on September 02, 2004, 10:01:11 AM ---kevin might not be happy - thats all I'm saying...
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Kevin might not be happy, but it's still a reasonable question to ask.
Months ago someone (not Kevin) decided to announce to the SMF community that the add-on was under development and, perhaps incorrectly, gave the impression that it was nearing completion. As there are very few options for integrating a decent CMS/portal with a decent forum it should have been fairly obvious that making such an announcement would set a very high level of expectation amongst the community.
It's gone pretty quiet since the announcement. I can't help feel that the announcement was made far too soon and I'm not sure why the announcement was made when it was.
I've given up waiting. I've got a few issues to resolve with migrating my existing forum to SMF. If the add-on has appeared when I'm ready to jump to SMF I'll take a look at it, but otherwise I'm going with Mambo.
The Burglar!:
It's a total rewrite so you can be better patient on this one
when it's final you hear it bout here ;)
Kevin_MIP:
You are correct in saying that I am unhappy.
No need for Google searches anymore. Here's a link to the site I set up with my current SMF version of my portal, http://smf.yauws.com/
My original site that housed MyiBPortal was at www.yauws.com which was for Invision Powerboard. That site has been moved for the reasons mentioned below. And that 404 error page (not really a 404) does have a link to my site. :) Sad to say, I have also moved all the work I have provided for the past two years. The current site is nothing more than a personal site now.
The SMF version involved a lot of recoding but not to get it integrated. The recoding was done to enhance it beyond a typical portal. I tend to think of it more of a CMS type. This part has been done but outside testing has been very slow. People do have lives to live too. I just did not get enough feedback yet on the beta testing to let this get released in it's current form.
So why am I mad?
I put ALOT of work into my portal over the past two years. I am the only coder for it and that takes it toll over time. I can not keep up with this myself. I also provided support and "blocks" for it for all these years.
I just can't take doing this anymore. An offer to past this to Lewis Media did not go over very well, so for the time being I am taking a much needed break from it.
But what REALLY put me over the top is the fact that someone, whom received the SMF beta in good faith, is now exploiting it by claiming it as his own.
I have all the proof I need on this. This person was exposed not too long ago on this. After he was informed as to how I know this is my code, he removed MY portal from his site, putting nuke in it's place.
But now this person is back to his old tricks. Changes were made by him to further hide the fact that it still is my portal. Little does he know, I can still prove that the current one he has on his site, posing MY portal as his own, is MyiBPortal.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. I can just walk away from the table and live my life without having to support this portal anymore
or I can give up my life, supporting this for the rest of my life
or I can just release this thing with no support just to stop this punk from exploiting MY work.
You make the call.
David:
--- Quote from: packman on September 02, 2004, 12:26:39 PM ---Months ago someone (not Kevin) decided to announce to the SMF community that the add-on was under development and, perhaps incorrectly, gave the impression that it was nearing completion.
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While Kevin did not bring up the idea of posting an announcement, the text of it was approved by him. We often announce things before they are near completion; it was close to a year between the first public announcement of the SMF project and our first public release. It was never intended for the announcement to infer a time-frame for a release.
--- Quote from: packman on September 02, 2004, 12:26:39 PM ---As there are very few options for integrating a decent CMS/portal with a decent forum it should have been fairly obvious that making such an announcement would set a very high level of expectation amongst the community.
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From what we had seen on Kevin's work already, the portal was beyond even our expectations. :)
--- Quote from: Kevin_MIP on September 02, 2004, 02:36:16 PM ---You make the call.
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As some people know, we went through basically the same thing with YaBB SE. It sucked and really hurt our team both as a whole and each of us individually. We were however able to work through it, took months, and with each other's support have gotten back on track and where we are today.
Kevin_MIP:
Thank you David, Joseph, Jeff, [Unknown] and everyone else that I may have left out.
I got the nudge I needed and released it on smf.yauws.com
Good luck to the SMF team, Lewis Media and the SMF community.
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