View Full Version : Premium Sectrion in 3.5.0 area?
GoTTi
11-29-2005, 08:33 PM
howcome there isn't a premium section in the 350 section of the board?
Marco van Herwaarden
11-29-2005, 08:37 PM
We will still need to evaluate the 3.0 premium sections before we decide if we will have them for 3.5.
Right now my personal opinion is that we should not create them in the same form as the 3.0, if at all.
Have a look in those 3.0 sections, some of them are not givinf the 'Premium' support as what the forum name suggest. And once you don't have a single thread on a hack anymore, but hundreds of posts, it is impossible to merge them back into a single thread if the author don't give the support over time that he intended to give when he started.
Paul M
11-29-2005, 09:59 PM
IMO the "premium" areas have been a bit of a failure. Two or three of the hacks seem to have been abandoned, and now many people are moving to 3.5, the rest will probably get less & less attention.
akanevsky
11-29-2005, 10:09 PM
IMO the "premium" areas have been a bit of a failure.
True.
GoTTi
11-30-2005, 12:19 AM
maybe the idea of the vbhosting hack was a good idea then for on here. where premium hacks could get their own forum, like v3arcade and those making big traffic and have high installs...
yea john has his own site, but not every1 is registered on there or knows bout it...and its just 2 much stuff going back and forth. maybe with hacks like v3arcade, and the author has a website he is using to have support, there could be a premium section, and the forum for that hack would be a forward to the authors site, so all optional problems would go over there.
Wayne Luke
11-30-2005, 02:16 AM
The program was an experiment and it will have to re-evaluated before there is any progress to it. It seemed like a good idea at the onset but it appears that true support isn't what people want to provide.
Chris M
11-30-2005, 06:52 AM
Part of the problem, in my view, is that people expected it to be like a full-on support forum 24/7 - Their ability to post numerous duplicate threads and annoy the hell out of the author was too great...
Chris
GoTTi
12-01-2005, 06:45 PM
the creators of the hacks given forums should be able to have a system of tools to trouble shoot things offered to them.
ideas like the vbugs script so they can open and close bugs (although just closing a thread when something is fixed would be best, and labeling it [FIXED] like i do on my forum...theres a lot of ways to work with this. its a good idea, just might not be throught out completely.
The general direction we are hoping to go in is allowing all hack threads to have such tools. Bug tracking, multiple support threads, CVS, etc.
sabret00the
12-01-2005, 09:33 PM
The general direction we are hoping to go in is allowing all hack threads to have such tools. Bug tracking, multiple support threads, CVS, etc.
the hack database is a sourceforge clone? w00t
Don't get you hopes up on everything begin in it at first. The plan is to get it up then improve upon it from there.
sabret00the
12-01-2005, 10:17 PM
Don't get you hopes up on everything begin in it at first. The plan is to get it up then improve upon it from there.
can i ask who's actually coding it?
Paul M
12-01-2005, 11:24 PM
Marco I believe
Marco is coding it, but others are helping him with it. :)
sabret00the
12-02-2005, 11:12 AM
damn i thought their was more of a team involvement. it'll be interesting to see vb.org pushing the limits of using vbulletin as a skeleton so far :)
good luck marco :)
The Geek
12-02-2005, 11:21 AM
The general direction we are hoping to go in is allowing all hack threads to have such tools. Bug tracking, multiple support threads, CVS, etc.
Wow. Thats a great move forward. No wonder its taking a bit longer than some had hoped.
The Premium Forums was a great, positive experiment. I agree that it quickly became apparent that they would not work as well as everyone had hoped, but at least it was tried.
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