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Christos Teriakis · #**121** 12-16-2011, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfa1

GARS importer

GARS is used by a LOT of boards and it has been abandoned. For example: I have 11.000 reviews in GARS. I know many others that also have thousands of GARS reviews and are stuck on vb3.8 until they can migrate their reviews to a new system. So without a replacement, these boards are stuck on vb 3.8. A reviews CMS seems to be our only hope.

I don't believe that really there are so many who have stucked on vB3.8 for GARS. I know this mod, actually I've bought it, and I can say that at the time that it has released, it was the best.

In any case, if you're so sure that there are so many boards using it, then bring me 30 of them to pre-order my Reviews AddOn, and I'll do this importer. I think that is a fair proposal. If "you" (in general) don't like to risk buying a new addon, why you expect from me to risk my time to do this bridge and finally see that I'll have only a couple of sales more?
I believe that this is the main reason that none coder risks to do such a bridge.

Chris

Alfa1 · #**122** 12-17-2011, 02:29 AM

That was already in the functionality listing. I do not expect anything from you. Its positive that you are creating a reviews addon. I hope that it will eventually resolve the needs that many have. Including myself. Like with the other developers: we will see how it goes. I'm just keeping the functionality list up to date for anyone who is interested and for when a developer is hired. (If that proves necessary for the needs of myself and others)

But I do know that there are a lot of boards who use GARS. Just check out thevbgeek.com , the thread on adminzone.com or the GARS group on vb.com
Some of us have a very large number of GARS entries. I have 11.000 myself. Without an importer, a reviews addon is useless to those boards.

Christos Teriakis · #**123** 12-17-2011, 10:22 AM

Hello,

I want to keep you informed on some changes in the features and on the date of the release:

Release day rescheduled to Tuesday (2 days later) due to the changes that I did.
Even if I had integraded vB threads to work as discussions, finally I removed this feature for the following reasons:
1. I didn't liked the interface. As the view listing page contents tabs, I found it ugly to have 2 tabs for main listing text and for reviews, and for discussions to have a link to the thread.
2. By using a seperate (not vb forum table) for keeping discussions, is much easier to:
  1. Build a GARS importer
  2. It will be also easy to move these data to another system and not feel prisoner on vB structure (like GARS from vB3 to vB4).
3. I used for discussion the Facebook commenting interface, something which is very popular on now days. Maybe it has only 1 sublevel for comments, but I think that is enought.
I added more usergroup permissions to help you sell subscriptions. eg:
1. Can show Address details
2. Can show Contact details
3. Can use Google Maps
4. Maximum concurrent listings
5. Also a nice permission is "Can has business profile". With this option members on this usergroup (if they want to activate it), will have an extra Tab in their profile with their Business data (including Map), and also other usefull statistics.
Also, in categories, I added some more fields to make the system more flexible. As example: You can choose per category if the listings there counts towards to the limit of the concurrent listings or not. ...or... if the Author can vote or not on his listing. I believe that this is useful as it has no sense the author to rate his own products, but from the other side is a must if he is reviewing someone's else product.
.... rest are still secrets

Chris

Alfa1 · #**124** 12-17-2011, 08:16 PM

A general annoyance my users have with GARS is that a vendor can not be in multiple categories. So I added this functionality to the requested features list.

Chris, that looks promising.

rootsxrocks · #**125** 12-20-2011, 09:35 AM

I am looking forward to seeing this I had almost given up and started working on a Joomla version. What about an ability to import category on a fresh install ? I have been working on a dewy decimal style category system that nest categories and cross references related subs.

Christos Teriakis · #**126** 12-20-2011, 07:25 PM

Hello,

I don't like to play with your dreams and your expectations, but what you'll see tomorrow in my demo, is good (I want to believe) reviews module for vBulletin. It's not a custom work according to the listing that Alpha1 has post. Custom work, means smaller market (unless if you full the system with Yes/No switchers to enable/disable features. Also the custom work costs a lot. I did the custom version for Classifieds, but this costed to my client 25,000 Euros till now.

My Reviews comparing with iReviews (I think that this is the only one that exists for vB4), has more features, better interface (even if design taste is something that varies from user to user), makes extended use of Ajax, and the most important, is coming with 100% visible source code, for those who want to extend it.

Chris

Ramsesx · #**127** 12-21-2011, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

but what you'll see tomorrow in my demo, is good

So we can expect something in the next 2 hours?

bigtree · #**128** 12-21-2011, 11:29 PM

I'm excited!

SilverBoy · #**129** 12-23-2011, 02:43 AM

no news?

bigtree · #**130** 12-23-2011, 04:33 PM

Take your time, I'd much rather stability than something plagued with bugs

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