Major Additions - vbNews by Mary

vbNews
News Publishing & Book Library System
by Mary
http://www.MadeByMary.com

REMOVED BY THE AUTHOR

[Tom_S]

Originally Posted by Jessi

Well. I am sorry to say this one is history. I decided to buy it but it costs almost as much as Vbulletin. Was a good start though.

So you only paid $42.50 for your copy of vBulletin?

[Jessi]

LOL no! But $42.50? Come on. If every person that made plugins did that, this would start costing hundreds and or thousands of dollars. I paid $85 for a year Leased license. So half of $85 = $42.50! I wasn't going to cough up $160 (Then $30) a year for updates until I knew what vbulletin could do. So if I paid the $160 it would only be 1/4 the price.

Also since most people here do not support there hacks/templates/plugins for to long it could become outdated real quick. Since I do not make money off my site I need to decide if the cash going out to make it do what I want for a couple months is worth the headaches.

When I discovered that the first vbnews wasn't even tested but a "Copy and paste" from another mod, I started having my doubts. Then playing with it, I popped up even more bugs, and simple ones to. It wasn't like I was looking for them, I was just adding articles and such to test functionality.

I am not saying it isn't a good or bad mod. But if there are definite issues in it's functionality, are your members going to use it?

[rickyreter]

vb is the best...i don't pay for no mods,hacks,plugins,if its free... use it,if not go pay someone for there product if you think its better.

[kiFF]

Do you have to write all the news articles yourself? Or could I use RSS feeds like Yahoo, that way I could just have a professional looking news-page for topstories, etc.

[lightbox]

I rated this piece of software "terrible" because support is almost non existant,
the product is full of bugs an annoying issues.
Starting with the rich editor to spit out almost unusable (unvalid) sort of HTML instead of
XHTML Transitional, even the DOCTYPE definition is missing. Icons are missing alt Tags. Even 3rd party code (calendar.html), which is used to edit the post date isn't working as
expected.
Assignment to "frontpage", "breaking" or "Editor Choice" can not be done when writing
new content. After posting the new article, you'll have to edit this assignment.
Extensive usage of fieldsets & legends in the default templates make design work a nightmare.
There are even conditions, where the script throws database errors because of insufficient
checking of variables passd to the script:
http://www.madebymary.com/vbnews.php...ategory&catid=

If I had known all of these issues, I wouldn't have paid for this piece of sleazy built
software. My personal impression is, that there someone tries to earn some quick'n'easy
money.

[rickyreter]

I'VE said this again and again..WHY do coders..designers..moders..bring out these scripts without no support or stuff is full of bugs issues and problems.
There should be a forum for beta stuff so the damm things get tested first then put into a proper mod forum.It seems to me..and yes you are right my friend..that a free mod script gets passed on so the person will hope they get sales via links back to them.I hate this script code myself.

Its only my say and believe i have a right to express it,

Please VBULLETIN.ORG Admin stop these people knocking out unfit scripts.

[Tulsa]

I am also a purchaser of these scripts, this one and vbarticles. They are not stable enough to open up to my members. I've had the commercial version of vbarticles in "testing" phase since January. That was the last time an update was made to it.

Get this.. Now today I was trying to help someone else on that site fix an issue there were having, I find that since I made a reference that having to have a photo associated with an article to get it to show up in vbnews is "silly", I have had my PM ability removed at that site. I guess I'm a threat..

I have been hanging around vbulleting.org for years and love this site. I've never dogged any script but I certainly would like to save anyone from making the same mistakes I did with these scripts.

On the support issue, another member here who also purchased these scripts was having fits over an issue that was not being responded to, I worked with him today (thank goodness he had linked to his site and I could reach him) and got his immediate issues taken care of. While I'm glad I could help this member, he shouldn't have to rely on someone who he didn't pay for his support.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by kiFF

Do you have to write all the news articles yourself? Or could I use RSS feeds like Yahoo, that way I could just have a professional looking news-page for topstories, etc.

No, this is for portals that they've their own news. That's why supports chapters etc. Has RSS feeds but only outgoing.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by lightbox

I rated this piece of software "terrible" because support is almost non existant, the product is full of bugs an annoying issues.

Your opinion is always welcome, but it's just your opinion, which is not the same with other dozens positive opinions. About support: Have you tried the "Contact us" form and you didn't got a reply?

Originally Posted by lightbox

Starting with the rich editor to spit out almost unusable (unvalid) sort of HTML instead of XHTML Transitional, even the DOCTYPE definition is missing. Icons are missing alt Tags.

http://www.madebymary.com/vbnews.php?do=edit
As long as you don't clarify in which browser/hardware they don't work, I can easily call you liar. All icon tags are working, in all languages (there are 10 languages available).

Originally Posted by lightbox

Even 3rd party code (calendar.html), which is used to edit the post date isn't working as expected.

Again words on the air. What's is your meaning of "as expected". Why you don't use a real example?

Originally Posted by lightbox

Assignment to "frontpage", "breaking" or "Editor Choice" can not be done when writing new content. After posting the new article, you'll have to edit this assignment.

I will check it and I'll revert.

Originally Posted by lightbox

Extensive usage of fieldsets & legends in the default templates make design work a nightmare.

That's my design style, visible to all at the demo area. I don't think that I gave a special version to you just to make your life difficult.

Originally Posted by lightbox

If I had known all of these issues, I wouldn't have paid for this piece of sleazy built software.

Never is too late. Have you asked for a refund and I refused it?. No. So ask for a refund and you'll have back 100% of your money.

Originally Posted by lightbox

My personal impression is, that there someone tries to earn some quick'n'easy money.

That's for laughing. Especially for vbNews, 98% of the licences have be gone free of charges to those who have bought vbArticles. And this one because I've promised to give "just a different front page of vbArticles". And finally I gave a totally new mod. But I kept my word. So, forget about the easy money.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Tulsa

I am also a purchaser of these scripts, this one and vbarticles. They are not stable enough to open up to my members. I've had the commercial version of vbarticles in "testing" phase since January.

You're wrong. You're NOT a purchaser of these scripts. You're a purchaser of vbArticles and I gave you for free vbNews.

Originally Posted by Tulsa

That was the last time an update was made to it.

Sure. That was the last (6th) upgrade as I've added ALL requested features and much more. If there are no more requests, and there are no bugs, why to release an upgrade? To add what??

Originally Posted by Tulsa

Get this.. Now today I was trying to help someone else on that site fix an issue there were having, I find that since I made a reference that having to have a photo associated with an article to get it to show up in vbnews is "silly", I have had my PM ability removed at that site. I guess I'm a threat..

And you came straigh here to report it PM has been deactivated at all, for all users, as it used just for duplicating the posts.

Originally Posted by Tulsa

I have been hanging around vbulleting.org for years and love this site. I've never dogged any script but I certainly would like to save anyone from making the same mistakes I did with these scripts.

As you're so honest here, why you don't inform the members how many times due to issues that you had with your Mac and FF2.0 (because as you admited, you haven't these issues on your PC, or even on Mac with FF1.7), how many times I asked you your invoice id to give you a full refund???