Cinq - gone, or has your forum been hacked?

Cinq,

Looks like your excellent website is... Gone ??

Are you gone, or has your website been hacked?

http://www.vbarticles.com/

Stachel

[hydrostatic]

Originally Posted by apfparadise

Well this is the kind of attitude that loses customers. I am moving on to something else also. This is just plain uncaring.

What "customers" are you talking about? cinq's vbArticles is a free hack. He really has no obligation to give you a copy or give support...

[apfparadise]

maybe I should not have used the word customers.

Users, better?

I know there is no obligation, but after offering the hack for so long and building its reputation, it's sad to see that the person no longer cares. I know there is no reward for this, but I know at least for myself, if I got an email from him giving me the download, he'd be getting a "Donation". What's fair is fair. I have done it several times before with the hacks I "installed". Instead I got turned off to the whole thing and went with another option.

[cinq]

Well, we all are free to choose what we believe.
You think I don't feel the pain of having worked up my own site only to see it nonexistent now, due to errors on my part, and a somewhat unresponsive host? Kirby has tried to help in this, a great deal and i appreciate it but we have yet to get this going.

You know what, after incidents like this, I'd much rather spend my time doing other stuff for people who appreciate it.
If you want this, contact me privately.
DONT expect a response, because you are NOT my customers.
Unless you pay.

[cmiller1014]

You should have just made it paid in the first place. You never had the same attitude as the rest of the hack authors who help the community. Its as if you never wanted to give it away in the first place. I would have easily paid $150+ for this if fully supported. It's as important to me as vb itself. No biggie though, I have purchased another 3rd party content management system. You really have shot yourself in the foot with this. There was big opportunity for your hack.

I am not attacking you or anything, I am just happy to see this go away. It will save a lot of people, a lot of time.

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by cmiller1014

You should have just made it paid in the first place. You never had the same attitude as the rest of the hack authors who help the community. Its as if you never wanted to give it away in the first place. I would have easily paid $150+ for this if fully supported. It's as important to me as vb itself. No biggie though, I have purchased another 3rd party content management system. You really have shot yourself in the foot with this. There was big opportunity for your hack.

I am not attacking you or anything, I am just happy to see this go away. It will save a lot of people, a lot of time.

y dont u drop it?...........you're not making it easier for anyone here by saying that.........glad you find one but im still without one! and with your comments that is not helping my situation here.........think about other people he didnt shoot himself in the foot..............caz other people will suffer from this! plus i dont know why you're saying he hasnt been supporting it check each and every post i've made he helped me out.......just dont expect him to be there 24/7 he has a life too........

[Marco van Herwaarden]

@cmiller1014

Please stop your non-stop rants about others in many threads. If you have something constructive to post, please go ahead. If you have a negative remark to make, make one (!!) in a constructive way, but stop posting over and over again the same story.

[cmiller1014]

Get over it.... everything I post is constructive. It's the people who didnt want to donate and leach off of these hack authors who ruined it for everyone. Hell I offered cing several hundred dollars to rework this hack for 3.5 and I didnt even care if everyone else could download it for free.

Get off my arse and go back to work.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by cmiller1014

Get over it.... everything I post is constructive. It's the people who didnt want to donate and leach off of these hack authors who ruined it for everyone. Hell I offered cing several hundred dollars to rework this hack for 3.5 and I didnt even care if everyone else could download it for free.

Get off my arse and go back to work.

This horse has offically been beaten, there is no point in posting such things anymore as the author seems to have moved on to other things.

You must relize that we are all volunteers here, including the staff and all hack authors. The author is totally within his rights to move on to other things or remove his code from this site.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You both seemed to have missed the point of my question - Cinq does not seem to support this hack from this forum, nor, as far as I can tell, is it available for download at vb.org (or anywhere else now it seems) hence the very simple question, why does it have it's own area ?

We are aware of this and will figure out exactly how it will be handled after the 3.5 upgrade, we wish to preserve all the support posts so that complicates things a bit.

Originally Posted by cmiller1014

It's the people who didnt want to donate and leach off of these hack authors who ruined it for everyone.

I just wanted to say one thing about this. This site has always been based on the idea of exchanging code for free, this benifits both the end user and people who write code for their own site. To call these people 'leechers' is an insult and many of them give back to the modifications they install themselves in ways other then money, these include: beta testing, bug fixing, translation, or writting their own modifications to the original code.

[hotwheels]

normally i wouldn't jump into this discussion when it get's to people's feeling's being hurt or moderator's being upset with people. But, i really need to throw out an idea here, cause i totally disagree with the way this is being handled.

Why can't there be a section on this site with sub forum's, the sub forum's will be for coder's. Each coder, if proven and spend's time on this site and give's to the community here, can have his own room. That way, cinq or the geek, or yoyoyo, etc..can put up their site addon's and new member's or member's like myself that aren't savvy with code, can come and check stuff out. The owner of the code or anyone he feel's can help with the code, will help there....like yoyoyo or whom ever....

I know people will say use the search button, but that is not my point. If a hack is complete, the owner of the software can put it in his own sub section of the site, he can even put up beta testing software and get the bug's fixed during the beta run.

I personally have been searching just for this type of software and i too was/am willing to pay. I came to this site here, looking for information on building my site (which i have found alot of), and looking to see how people better their sites. I think my site has come along way's do to the efforts of people who have shared their work with me and i truly appreciate that. But not all of us can just throw a hack onto our sites and it become's frustrating when you know there is a great program and it get's pulled completely from the internet like this. I have tryed now for a week to get the geek's GAS program running on my site and i just can't do it, so i searched and searched and the next best thing sounded like Cinq's work. Do to a database error, his site is gone, and i think that is terrible, but would my above suggestion help eliminate problem's like that? Then it is at a central location and other's can help other's if that makes any sense if cinq is busy with life.....

Just my .02, i don't think what cmiller1014 said was mean or vicious in anyway, other then not understanding why, if his database is corrupt, the file can't be found here? I think that is a great question. I don't think cinq need's to answer that at all if he doesn't want to. I just don't understand, why this has become such a highly debated issue. If he doesn't want to share, then don't share, if it is just as stated, a database error, then if there was a section here for cinq, he could already have had the file stored here or this may never have happened......

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