Where did the VBlogetin go?

[Morrus]

Hopefully you'll be back soon, Adrian - my vBlogetin is still broken and I need help!

[gingery]

Originally Posted by eJM

This is just another indication of the kind of service and support we have to look forward to - which has been going on for months now. Half measures.

The product works. Too many bells and whistles were being added on and the core product did not move to the next level. Some of those "extra" features would make fine stand-alone products, or could be added into later versions. But you guys played around and disappointed a large group of people who are now looking to abandon ship.

Don't give us promises or excuses. Re-organize, prioritize and get back to work.

Jim

Agreed! Agreed! Agreed! Add me to the "group of people who are now looking to abandon ship". I'm so frustrated with the lack of progress going on with this project. I'm very close to chalking up the fifty bucks I paid as a lost cause and moving on.

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by gingery

Agreed! Agreed! Agreed! Add me to the "group of people who are now looking to abandon ship". I'm so frustrated with the lack of progress going on with this project. I'm very close to chalking up the fifty bucks I paid as a lost cause and moving on.

The lack of progress ?? It's seemed very reasonable to me. They may have slowed down a Little, but what do you expect for 2 ppl who prolly work full time.

Sell your vBlogetin, it's a great script, someone will buy it from you

With that said, I hadn't even noticed the site was down. I hope you don't lost your domain Adrian

Originally Posted by Morrus

Hopefully you'll be back soon, Adrian - my vBlogetin is still broken and I need help!

send me a pm, I'll get you working.

[shredded]

I am in the market to add some sort of blog/social networking facility to my site. It is a bodybuilding site and I think members having there own "place" to let loose and be vane is what my site needs to attract and keep people interested. So...

I started looking at the possible candidates and really only found 2 and a half. I say a "half" because the vBlogs piece that vBulletin is working on is not a real product yet. With that said, I think the vBlogetin is still a beta. The last is Zoints. I have heard so many contradictory reviews about this one that it makes me leary of trying it.

The vBlogs hasn't impressed me much yet, although they seem to have enough resources to follow through. I was tempted to give vBlogetin a try but when I was about to act on my impulse, the site was not available. Geeez, somethings gotta give!

Is there anyone out there that can show me the true capabilities of vBlogetin minus all the bullcrap. People can have one bad experience with software and then they go off on this tangent. What is it that makes you want to jump ship? Just cause it won't do something for which it was never intended to do? You're still using it... There must be something good about it. Or, is it just because there is no other alternatives to choose from?

SirAdrian... Having a bit of a development background myself, I can relate to the relentless crap your subjected to by "users". All I want to know... do you have every intention of seeing this through? Will this be a product that I will display proudly on my site?

[Lizard King]

I am still using vblogetin on my site and i really like the features. But on the other hand the script needs to be taken care of. It still has couple bugs which need to be corrected , some features are not functioning correctly. But if you can live with these small problems then i can advise you to choose vblogetin ( if you don't want to wait vb blog )
Here is the live adress on my sites :
http://www.ayyas.com/blogs/ blog directory ( needs a lot of work )
http://www.ayyas.com/blogs/lizard-king/ my personal blog

[kira]

I'm glad to hear you'll be coming back, SirAdrian. I didn't even notice the site was down until I saw this post and a mention from Lizard King over at vb.com that the site needed "resurrecting."

Shredded, if you'd like to see a working vblogetin setup, you can visit ours at http://www.epiguide.com/forums/blogs/ . If you click on a few different blogs you'll notice that many have different styles, which blog owners can select as they choose. That's something vBlogs doesn't offer. Also, people can add or remove content blocks in their blogs, which is another feature I don't see in vBlogs yet.

We're a small and not very active community but I do think the vblogetin component will be a big help to engaging our users during some upcoming community projects.

[rwilkins108]

You can see vblogetin running on my site as well ->
http://www.u-assist.com/blogs

[gingery]

The lack of progress ??

Yeah. It has been beta 3-8 now for what? Months?

what do you expect for 2 ppl who prolly work full time

I dunno. Maybe that when a timeline is given, it is met - give or take a few weeks (or even a couple of months).

Sell your vBlogetin, it's a great script, someone will buy it from you

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep it in mind!

What is it that makes you want to jump ship?

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.

I bought this in early December. Eventually I installed it on my site with the intent of promoting it once it was out of the beta stage. Seven months later it is still in beta, partly because it was put on the backburner so that the developers could work on other projects to keep their revenue coming in. I guess that left a sour taste in my mouth.

[rwilkins108]

Originally Posted by gingery

Seven months later it is still in beta, partly because it was put on the backburner so that the developers could work on other projects to keep their revenue coming in. I guess that left a sour taste in my mouth.

Even though it is in beta it's been noted that the current public beta is release quality. The other "cutsy" things you mention are in pre-release tester's hands. As for taking on other projects, I guess you can just survive on your good looks?!?

[eJM]

Originally Posted by rwilkins108

Even though it is in beta it's been noted that the current public beta is release quality.

That isn't saying much. A lot of applications get released that aren't ready for prime time. I have beta tested a lot of products in my 15 years of computing and only a few could be said were quality products well before release. vBlogetin isn't one of them. It's good and it works well enough for a lot of people, but it's not gold.

The other "cutsy" things you mention are in pre-release tester's hands. As for taking on other projects, I guess you can just survive on your good looks?!?

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.

Selling an unfinished product (yes, we knew it was unfinished, but there were expectations) and then delaying work on it for an extended period of time in order to work on other products is not a good business plan. Those of us who have been neglected on one product, tend not to give glowing reviews that the developer might realize are necessary for future sales. When people are looking for quality products from this developer, they will likely find a lot of disgruntled users. That's what happens when you try to do a juggling act with one hand.

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.

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.

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.

vBlogetin 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.

Jim