[Adrian Schneider]

The attachment feature should have been an application all its own and not applied to vBlogetin when it was. There's the spam thing they worked on and maybe more. Not one of them is gold yet. In fact, they put all the products behind schedule because of a lack of priorities.

The attachment system was something we thought it needed so it was added. Most of the delay is working out the javascript (text editor) out of forum dir issues, and file permission errors which would involve rewriting the datastore system.

I've dealt with hosting and domains enough to know the issue is not that difficult to resolve. If I had a partner in a venture that relied on a scheduled payment to maintain the website or facility, I certainly would not leave that up to one person who I had very little contact with. Once it was discovered that the domain was expired, the partner, who was there to tell Adrian it was due, could easily resolve the problem even if it meant going to a library to borrow a public computer. What happened was total BS and we have been fed more of the same with the excuses.

No, it's not difficult to resolve, but it can take time. It has been transferred to my name under a different registrar which is why it is taking so long. How is that total bullshit?

This domain and server fiasco is just one more indication to me that Sir Adrian and company are not serious about running a quality business. Check the shortcut to vBlogetin and you get a "Coming soon" page that has numerous pop-ups that make it difficult to navigate normally away from the site. It's irritating to say the least.

That's called a landing page, and is completely automated by the registrar. It's a pretty standard thing to see when experiencing domain problems, or even buying new ones.

It takes less than a day to register and set up a domain on a host. I did it with TheFloorPro.com. You can check the WhoIs data and then look at my oldest message on the forum. I feel like I am doing business with children who have not taken responsibility for this issue.

Yes it does. We are not buying a new domain... I talked with the owner and he said something happened to all of his domains. It is being transferred now. A completely different circumstance than what you are describing. How would you have handled this surprise, Jim? I suppose I can fly to Adu Dhabi to talk to my partner, and work out the issue there? That would have taken 2 days (and $3000) to get there, and who knows how long to sort out the domain issue. He did not say what the problem was, only that something happened to all of his domains that were using register.com. I can ask him what the problem was, if you'd like. My guess is the nameservers got wiped out somehow... I was incorrect about it being expired - that was my assumption due to his notice from the previous night.

IMO, we couldn't have fixed it any faster than we did. Sit down and relax for a few minutes; it's not the end of the world.

Blogetin will remain on my board until another product of my choosing comes along that has a conversion script. The developers of vBlogetin have lost my faith and respect. I am not asking for too much. I only ask for professionalism. I could care less about any "other" jobs. To me, vBlogetin IS their job and I am paying part of their wage.

I'll be frank here... You ask for a LOT. Every post. I'm sure a ton of people will agree with me here. You are always condescending and rude on the forums, and you behave like you are the only customer on the site. I have heard this from other people too. We bite our tongue, ignore your attitude, and support you to the best of our ability anyway.

It has been stuck on beta 3-8 for months now. Updates on progress are not so frequent. While I'm sure the picture attachment thing will be really cool, I would have like to have seen a stable base product rolled out and then the cutesie things added on later.

Yeah, that is unacceptable, and I apologize. A combination of a few poor choices (we are coders, not business majors) and also some bad luck (deaths, family issues, moving, etc). We do plan to get things into gold ASAP and you guys will definitely see progress pick up.

Anyway, as I said earlier, this should be sorted out soon. We are waiting for the transfer to go through still. I apologize to everyone about the inconvenience. If you need any support you can contact me via email or PM on this site.