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Support at the Pigstye is Moving

Authored by: efarmboy on Friday, December 13 2002 @ 10:00 pm EST

The site looks good Tom but it needs a few more items to complete it. I'd suggest the following and may just have a few easy fixes for you:

Need a forum for the community discussions and support of the add-ons.
Need a Download Manager to allow developers to upload contributions and enhancements
Need an interactive - chat or shout style block for those quick posts and private user messages

I understand the reasoning to offload activity from a personal server. I have the same situation with my langfamily domain as the initial reasons for geeklog were to support my family site. I have tried to keep the site mostly personal but that had been increasingly difficult. I've had 3300 downloads and 30-50 users a day for the past 4 months.

We recently re-commissioned the Geeklog Plugins Project on Sourceforge as well. The forum was not released on my or Matthews site but only on the sourceforge geeklogplugins site. I don't believe it is available on any other site yet and has been downloaded 127 times so far. This has saved our servers some and offers users faster response.

I agree we need a better central site for Developers to host their files, provide support and allow new users as well as the more active community members a central and one stop location. Squatty's has been that main site for addons and a secondary site for developers to support users. We do have a collaborative and supportive community of developers in the Geeklog Community. This was one of the key items that attracted me and supported me in my early (what is PHP) days.

I don't think it is possible to have only one central site and frankly choice is good - so is some friendly competition. I know that Tony and Dirk are planning to move this site off of Sourceforge to their own servers in the coming weeks. It will also most likely be setup with the forum and offer downloads of the add-ons. The challenge will be now for developers to have to bounce from site to site - to watch for any support questions - and answer the same question multiple times. I often see users post the same questions (exactly) about one of my add-ons on multiple sites, plus my site and send me an email. Whew!, now I have even less time for my family, work and geeklog development.

I recognize that this is not a new site - a replacement for your other site. I'm supportative of the idea. I'm just blogging ... as this is just the nature of a growing community. I just hope users recognize this and continue to be patient with a development community that gives so much time and service for such a low price. This is one place where you defintely get more value then you pay for.

Cheers,
Blaine

Support at the Pigstye is Moving

Authored by: tomw on Saturday, December 14 2002 @ 08:54 am EST

Gimme time, gimme time I am getting there. (Even though I was waiting for the next forum release. You did notice that your plugins are soundly beating mine in the pole?)

MrGXBlock has given me permission to host all his downloads and work since he is not going to support downloads anymore. Right now I am in the process of sorting this out in preperation of uploading it to cvs and getting the downloads on line. At least his work will be accessible and not lost into the vapor trail.

Now if we can just train the users to put support questions on the correct website. ;-).

Tom

Support at the Pigstye is Moving

Authored by: efarmboy on Saturday, December 14 2002 @ 10:00 am EST

Thats because I had my family vote :D

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