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Authored by: Tony on Thursday, May 09 2002 @ 08:28 am EDT

Too many functions? Where\'s the fat? How can we trim it? Just saying a blanket statement like that without concrete examples is of no use and doesn\'t help us.

Not enough thought put into the GUI. Well, I\'m not the GUI master but I think a few of our developers who bust their asses to make great skins would disagree. Your example was nothing merely than a suggested tweak. As for your preference for smarty...it\'s the coke vs. pepsi thing. To address templates more specifically, though, we are moving all our templates to the DB allowing admins to remotely change the look and feel without need for shell access.

Yes, Geeklog is growing. If you hang out in our IRC channel or check the mailing list you\'ll see a lot more activity than, say, a year ago. Also, we\'ve gone from a solo development act to a real team and I think the quality of Geeklog shows it. Are we bug free? No. Will be ever be? No. But having more people using it in testing situations and thinking critically about the application will only help make Geeklog even better. (Thanks to all of you that help)

I\'d like to address support. I have been exposed a number of open source projects and I think a unique feature of Geeklog is our ability to provide support in a number of way including live support in the chat room. 90% of what people think are \'bugs\' aren\'t bugs at all but, rather, configuration issues or problems stemming from not reading the INSTALL document.

Finally, documentation. There is a big effort underway to provide accurate and complete documentation both at the end-user level and the development level. You can expect drafts of the documents out in the very near future.

Sorry, this is a bit off topic. But I wanted to address your concerns/issues.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, May 09 2002 @ 11:00 am EDT

I\'ve never seen such great open-source support.
I\'ve emailed the list nearly 15 times, and Tony or Dirk or someone usually responds within an hour. (Even to my stupid questions).

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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, May 09 2002 @ 10:15 pm EDT

dirk is cool

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Authored by: MLimburg on Friday, May 10 2002 @ 03:45 am EDT

Nahh, MLimburg is cool. Ooooh, maybe I should have logged off before I wrote this ..

In regards to the \'too many functions\' comment above ... cope. You\'re not the only person the app is written for. Take out or turn off what you don\'t want. And the oh so bad news is, we\'re not finished yet.

Okay, now for the \'bugs\' statement. EVERY software app has bugs. We don\'t hide ours, we fix them. We welcome the reports so we and others know of them, to avoid or fix them. We could hide the reports by not putting them on the front page. We could refuse them, and push all bug reporting through the bug-tracker. We don\'t. And if you bothered to read beyond the initial blurb, you may find that a good portion of these bugs are a) people who have a misconfigured environment or b) don\'t RTFM.

GL isn\'t perfect, not yet. It does, however, work and work pretty bloody well.

Now if there IS a problem, a SPECIFIC problem, then define them and send them in. Quit the blanket statements and HELP the project.

Me Cranky.

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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, May 10 2002 @ 11:38 am EDT

Any plans to add built in forums? Private messaging between members? I think if geeklog had features that phpnuke didn\'t even more people would use it and create plug-ins & hacks for it.

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Authored by: Tony on Friday, May 10 2002 @ 12:58 pm EDT

Yes, we do have plans in the works for forums and we have a half functioning gallery component we will be pushing out too. Private messages are easy and may even be out with the next release.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, May 10 2002 @ 02:56 pm EDT

Cool, just one question, any good place to learn php?

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Authored by: Tony on Friday, May 10 2002 @ 02:59 pm EDT

php.net, phpbuilder.com, irc.openproject.net in #php and devshed.com

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Thanks(nt)

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, May 10 2002 @ 03:13 pm EDT

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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, May 13 2002 @ 05:44 am EDT

there is something i think i didn\'t adress yet. we need to believe you. you may look through your archive, but you allways announced a new version within this week, \'n\' then it came out 2 weeks later.

concerning the bugs, you are the only one where i find so much bugs in a short amount of time. you make more functions before cleaning out bugs of the older ones.

YES you do not hide the errors, but do you know any other known software in v. 1.3 where you allready got bugs after a simple bad login and then a right login? hey this is SO BASIC!

then the installation you did, hey this is just amazing full of bugs! it shows me 10 times \"x... done\" (and everywhere messages and errors the compiler wrote) and if i look after the directory there\'s just NOTHING done!

YES everywhere are bugs but if you see 5-.. php errors you just don\'t feel enough confident to give your tool the confidence I need. hey, this tool will holds lot of time effort!

btw, it\'s just impossible to install geeklog in a subdirectory.

Too many functions? Where\'s the fat? How can we trim it? Just saying a blanket statement like that without concrete examples is of no use and doesn\'t help us.

>Not enough thought put into the GUI. Well, I\'m not the GUI
>master but I think a few of our developers who bust their
>asses to make great skins would disagree. Your example
>was nothing merely than a suggested tweak.

no, just no. i am talking about the design, not the styles. yes your pages looked and looks good. but you have to put the buttons where we expect it. greatest CMS IMHO: freshmeat.net.

>As for your preference for smarty...it\'s the coke vs. pepsi
>thing.

ehm, maybe. BUT, it\'s coke smelling like kokain not having sugar and beein\' nearly free ;) i mean, you will maybe think about why a php.net coder (!) is working too on it..

>To address templates more specifically, though, we are
>moving all our templates to the DB allowing admins to
>remotely change the look and feel without need for shell
>access.

ok, it\'s coming, but as it sound\'s you even can\'t install a simple theme in v1.3 without shell!!

>Yes, Geeklog is growing. If you hang out [..]

i\'d say, a growing software is a software wich is used by much people. actually, i haven\'t seen ANY geeklog site wich really USES geeklog (!). they just installed it, put on some posts, changed colors, but haven\'t really adapted the software. but not having it adapted more means to me they don\'t really need such a tool, they don\'t get enough visitors, ..

concerning a PHP tool i mostly would say using it means you use the code and adapted it so much you can\'t see it\'s this script. look at the powered by b2 (use google) list: THIS is what i means with adapted! they use the script!

greets, Raphael
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+url: http://raphb.ch/

Hmm?

Authored by: Dirk on Monday, May 13 2002 @ 01:52 pm EDT

Excuse me, are we talking about the same Geeklog here? I find it hard to believe ... You CAN install Geeklog without telnet access, you CAN install themes without telnet acces, you CAN install it in a subdirectory, etc. etc. Sorry, you must be doing something wrong here ...

As for sites that use Geeklog - look through the links section here. Yes, you will find many low-traffic sites. But you will also find sites with thousands of users (e.g. MacOS X Hints has more than 10,000 registered users and over 1,500 stories).

bye, Dirk

Man inaccuracies...

Authored by: Tony on Monday, May 13 2002 @ 02:46 pm EDT

Raphael,

There are too many inaccuracies in your statements to even begin addressing them all. But most notable:

1) TheInstall script has been tremendously simplified and only does database operations. If you can\'t get the installer to work, we can usually narrow it down to a) PHP configuration issues or B) misconfigured config.php or C) you didn\'t RTFM

2) yes, you can install Geeklog themes without shell access. It might help in such accusations if you\'d specify a version of Geeklog you feel doesn\'t support this feature

3) Yes, you can install Geeklog into a subdirectory. Again, you should specify an exact version your are complaining about.

If you doubt any of the 3 items above, I\'d be more than happy to give references of installations that prove that my statements are, in fact true.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Man inaccuracies...

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Tuesday, May 14 2002 @ 08:18 am EDT

some seem a little more ungrateful than helpful

i too had a few problems installing GL, but I joined the list, and asked questions, found the search function on the page, and worked my way through it. the developers were very helpful. and i can vouch that if you follow the directions EXACTLY, it should work. i finished the install and could not get rid of three warnings when stories were posted, but i searched the GL list and found out how to turn off the php warnings. now everything is working great.

i\'m also looking forward to the new media plugin i saw tony talkin about somewhere on here.

keep up the good work!

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