That was an oversight, I use a standard "template" for all my mods when I begin a new project and those options are a part of said template :)


Fillip

It was constructive criticism as I reported my findings for others to watch out for (user review based upon user experience)

I found that this modification caused the pages to load slower (even on a fresh & clean test install) and also added to memory & query (in my opinion).

I found this could provide false positives in the way it detects things, regardless of how you configure the settings.

And I found it has the habit to conflict with a wide range of other modifications and products. Not just limited to 1 or 2 rogue modifications, but rather believing this in its self to be the rogue modifications, compared to how many other products could not play well with this 1.

Just because you dislike my constructive criticism and review, doesn't make it not true or invalid.
I stand by my original post

• Used a lot of resources
• false positives
• conflicting with other software

So you are saying that if I went to your site and said "this site sucks." that would be constructive criticism?

That is essentially the same as you are doing in this thread and in every other DBTech mod thread you have posted in.

• You offer zero information regarding the nature of the false positives
• You offer zero information regarding the nature of the conflicts

The same can be said for all your other posts.

I mean no offence, but your posts do come off as if you are simply trying to discredit us for no good reason.

Would you have liked it if people put your site in a negative light but refused to give you any information that you could use to improve your site?

How do you expect us to improve this mod if all you say is "it doesn't work right"?


PS: This mod uses virtually no resources as it does not execute anything (except for standard cache fetching and object initialisation) unless one of its watchers are triggered.

Would you care to provide comparison data regarding resource usage and page generation time that backs up your claim?


Fillip

I stand by my review.

But do believe I have mistakenly overlooked leaving a positive review for the modifications which you have released, that have not caused any issues and do in fact work well.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=236980
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=242733
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=243754
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=258738
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=243510

I have since then corrected my oversight :)

Do you refuse to help us improve this modification by providing the information I requested in my previous post?

And do you also refuse to back up your claims of slowdown / large memory usage increase with evidence so that we can look into it?

If you choose to refuse these requests for more information then that's perfectly fine, but just know that it may discredit your review in the eyes of people who read the thread :)


Fillip

It is not my role or the role of anyone else who use your modifications to help debug, decode, edit, improve, or otherwise help you produce your own modifications. Just so you know, continuing belittle people who you may disagree with, discredits yours.

As I have told you, I un-installed this. I can only comment on my own personal experience...

But will add that when testing your modification and wrongfully entering the password to my own account (for testing reasons)....

I received the e-mail stating that I tried to log-in not only into my account, but several other accounts I did not try to log into... I would label this as a false positive, as the system would record me trying to log into many other accounts.

As this continue to remain installed, I noticed a few other members (beside myself) also had the same report.

I do not have the memory readings or page speed reading on hand, as I again point out, I un-installed this and it is not my role or the role of anyone else to help you resolve your modification.

The "Mass Login" watcher would indeed list plenty of other accounts as it takes a list of all failed logins across all accounts. You can limit the amount of what you call "false positives" by making it so that it only triggers on the same IP Address, as opposed to Any IP Address :)

I'll leave it up to my business partner Iain to explain why we rely on constructive criticism from our users in order to improve our mods, as I'm clearly doing an inadequate job of it :(


Fillip

Just popping in to say that it's obviously not possible for us to fix isolated issues if the person claiming to have them isn't willing to let us try to Debug them.

Obviously claiming (to use one example from your posts) it is incompatible with lots of other software, then declining to name those other pieces of software, makes it impossible for us to attempt to debug that - unless you feel it is reasonable for us to install every single vBulletin modification in every single possible combination to try to find your particular issue (an issue which you of course didn't specify and as such we would be unable to notice).

I think it's pretty obvious to everyone reading that your "reviews" are due to a different matter - for the record the reason is one we're aware of, but won't go into in order to abide by the general rules and social norms here on vBulletin.org. The bare minimum I will say is that it was related to pirated versions of DBTech pro mods.

We are, as always, extremely glad to any users who take the time to give us feedback on our modifications and give us the information we need to improve them or help to debug the reason a specific user is encountering a specific problem - and that's the vast majority of you.

Again, thanks to everyone who takes the time to do that.

Iain

Thank you DragonByte Tech for another great mod. :)

Ahh, I see. So I assume that's something that'll be cleared up in the next version then?

Also, had a more general question for you guys at DB Tech if it's alright (and seeing as you request for people to not send PM's). I've now got 7 DB Tech addons on my forums (though only 6 are currently enabled), and so I'll end up with multiple copyright notifications at the bottom of the forums. For instance, here's what shows on our forum home right now.

Just wondering if there might be something you guys can do at your end to reduce the redundancy a little bit for those of us who've got multiple addons installed, or if you might allow us those of us in this situation to do a bit of editing to compress those down to one line.