vBadvanced Gallery - where's it vanished to?

[Protoman]

complete unlocked discussion here:
http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1503

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Protoman

complete unlocked discussion here:

Old news. Time to move on.

[e-brooker]

Originally Posted by KW802

Did you go to *both* links I provided?

Yes I went to both threads - and thats what they are, threads. There's no mention of vbaGallery (or whatever it is called now) on the main site anywhere - thats what is annoying!!!

It's as if they want to kill it off!

Originally Posted by KW802

Old news. Time to move on.

It might be old news for you, but it's not for many others.

Did I read you are now working for photopost?

[Reeve of shinra]

Its a little disappointing to NOT see vbgallery as a featured product on thier home page especially since alot of staff are pushing new user inquiries towards photopost pro... I understand its a bigger money maker for them but it leaves me wondering if we will ever see continued development of the vbgallery product.

Photopost support though seems to be better than expected... I had one of thier support staff who shall remain namless for the moment actually IM regarding a problem I was having with a mod. Thumbs up on that.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by e-brooker

Yes I went to both threads - and thats what they are, threads. There's no mention of vbaGallery (or whatever it is called now) on the main site anywhere - thats what is annoying!!!

So maybe the better thing to do would be leave feedback on PhotoPost.com where it would have the most meaning instead of here where it doesn't do much good except for getting people riled up for no reason.

Originally Posted by e-brooker

It's as if they want to kill it off!

Hardly! Immediately after the transition additional support people were brought in and the existing PP guys are jumping in with support as well. vBGallery is most definitely an important product for them.

Originally Posted by e-brooker

It might be old news for you, but it's not for many others.

It should be old news for everybody by now. Besides the announcement on vBa, the announcement on PhotoPost, and the countless upon countless threads on the various vB community sites there were also emailings to all registered owners with their account information so that they can download the product from the new site.

Originally Posted by e-brooker

Did I read you are now working for photopost?

Since you already read it then you already know the answer to that question. :ermm: But, yes, I am currently part of the PhotoPost team along with several other sites including vBa yet. My joining the PhotoPost team though occurred after the transition was made which means I was like any other customer when the events took place.

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

Its a little disappointing to NOT see vbgallery as a featured product on thier home page especially since alot of staff are pushing new user inquiries towards photopost pro... I understand its a bigger money maker for them but it leaves me wondering if we will ever see continued development of the vbgallery product.

I would like to see vBG on the front page as well but all I can say is that the guys are working on it. As far as pushing which product, I think there is still a bit of the old 'PhotoPost PHP Pro versus vBa Gallery' crowd going on but as some of the more recent threads should show even the most stalwarts of each side are coming to understand that the both products have their place.

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

Photopost support though seems to be better than expected... I had one of thier support staff who shall remain namless for the moment actually IM regarding a problem I was having with a mod. Thumbs up on that.

With everybody quick to proclaims their negatives is nice to see somebody mention their positives as well.

[e-brooker]

Kevin you are doing a good job of defending them which, I can understand as you work for them, but unfortunately, the whole thing has left a bad taste in many people's mouths.

I have decided not to buy any photopost products because of the way the rightful owner was treated and the way the product is now being seemingly 'killed off'. In my opinion it's no way to treat your fellow community (coders) or customers (vB users).

[Zachariah]

Works for my site.

I was never a good PR man, but I know it works for my needs.
It worked for my needs when I was doing beta W/ Brian in VB3.0.

/me shrugs ... goes back to cave to code.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by e-brooker

Kevin you are doing a good job of defending them which, I can understand as you work for them, but unfortunately, the whole thing has left a bad taste in many people's mouths.

It has nothing to do with "defending" them or working for them... I was a vBa Gallery customer going all the way back to the early betas: It was a good product then, remains a good product now, and it continues to be supported and worked on going forward.

Originally Posted by e-brooker

I have decided not to buy any photopost products because of the way the rightful owner was treated and the way the product is now being seemingly 'killed off'. In my opinion it's no way to treat your fellow community (coders) or customers (vB users).

The product is far from being "killed off" so posting comments like that is just silly. If you choose not to be a PhotoPost customer then that's entirely your perogative but in the real world the product happens to be an excellent choice for vBulletin site owners and has a long life ahead for it, hence the reason why I have purchased several licenses over the years and will continue using it on my sites going forward.

[MPDev]

There have been many factors which have caused a delay in getting our new site deisgn in place; but we have made the product easily available, kept the price the same, supported old and new customers (even offered free 1 year extensions to support for existing customers), brought on dedicated vBGallery support staff and recently posted a dot update to the product to deal with known issues.

Business is business, folks and this discussion played out a long time ago. Nobody was forced to do anything and in the end PhotoPost bought vBGallery, end of story.

PhotoPost continues to look for ways to meet all of our customers needs and will continue to develop all of our products - nobody has been left out in the cold and the product is readily available.

[MRGTB]

What exactly has been fixed in vBGallery since Photopost took over? Talk is cheap, action isn't!!

I own a licence and have choosen not to install it now since you took over after I posted a couple of known issues like the "WHO ONLINE" bug that doesn't display were people are the gallery, along with other known issues that are still there since you took over it, which could have been fixed in minutes (seeing as Brian has already posted fixes for some of them already located on your site in threads). Like the "admin email" address sticking and not being saved in the settings when you exit and so on - which nothing has been done about months later down the line.

No offence, but it does seem as though you have bought it just to sit on it to avoid the compitition it gave you before. With no intentions at all of fixing things reported, just like I have reported right the word go on the first day you owned it. You've now had plenty of time to fix some of these issues reported which you've failed to do. So time scale is no longer an excuse to use!

It didn't take you two mintues to edit a shit load of files to enter your Photopost name in them to be displayed in the footer and admincp as soon as you took it over, pity your not so fast at getting to work on bugs also.

As a license owner, I'm extremly disapointed with Photopost since they took it over, I want to use the Gallery bug free and have gone out my way to report stuff on deaf ears it seems.