[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by wacodep

I don't think she's being a "snaughty jerk" - I believe that some of it may be the fact that, based on her postings, she's not as well-versed in the English language as you or I. I would guess she is not from the USA (just a guess).

Yes, I'm coming from Greece. You can see it under my nick. Even my nickname says it: MicroHellas (even only few people knows that the official name of Greece is Hellas).

Originally Posted by wacodep

But beyond the personal aspect: I, too, have considered buying the commercial version, but there are just too_many_bugs in the free version to feel confident in paying for this mod.

Too many? Can you name them? There are only 2. One in search form (not including in free version and the other in pagination). If you mean errors in editor, sorry but I dont count them as bugs. I followed the parammeters that are given at vb's API in function's section. Everything is depending on vb's configuration. eg in my demo was working, in some others also was working, others have problem only with smilies, others haven't problem with smilies but with paragraph breaks.

Originally Posted by wacodep

I mean, just in the last 10 minutes, I've found that:

1. When I DELETE an article, I get several php errors when it tries to unlink the attached image. No big deal, as the article does get deleted, but if she expects me to pay for this, it has to be without glaring bugs like this. (yes, all my directories are correctly chmod'd).

That's the difference between commercial and free version. Not really the added features but support. If you check my forums you'll see that from the first day I've solved it and post report in my forums. Go there to check that I'm saying the true. Sorry, but I've no time to post exactly the same in all forums where I've post my module. Last but not least, i gave warning about this: NO SUPPORT HERE.

Originally Posted by wacodep

2. The missing paragraph thing STILL plagues many (yes, I have enabled the Enhanced Editor and even have selected it), but it doesn't always work. And ANY time I go back and EDIT a previous article, it looses all the paragraphs, too. No WAY I'm going to pay for software THIS buggy.

That's your opinion. I respect it even if I dont agree with it.

Originally Posted by wacodep

3. Look at the SQL for determining the "Newest Author":

// Newest Author
$newestauthor = $vbulletin->db->query_first("
SELECT *
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "vbarticles_articles AS articles
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS users ON (users.userid=articles.userid)
WHERE users.vbarticles_stories=1
ORDER BY articles.postdate DESC
LIMIT 1
");

Note the highlighted area. If I have 20 people who have added articles, and all of them have MORE than 1 article, this query will NEVER return a "Newest Author" - which means that block stays empty (no newest author). Get rid of the line and it always returns the most recent author (what I would call the "newest author").

Even if you're breaking the licence now (have you read it?), what I can say is:
That's correct on my side. Better to get an empty block than to add more complicated queries. From the other side, I can't count someone who has more than 1 articles as newest.

Originally Posted by wacodep

When the bugs are worked out, I will purchase it. But when someone comes out RIGHT FROM THE START and expects everybody to start throwing money at her/him when the product does NOT work as it should, that's pushing it.

If/when she gets it bug-free, I will be purchasing it. Until then, I just can't send $$ in good faith, knowing that the product isn't working very well ...

Thanks for making my day I've never laught so much early in the morning. While big companies can't deliver a bug free software, for which you paid more than $100, are you expecting it from something that costs only $24.90???