Article system coming soon!

[ranger2kxlt]

Release date?

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by krohnathlonman

The article system uses HTML for article formatting so anything you can do in HTML such as img src you can do in this system.

I will not release as is due to complications in upgrade routes. I simply do not want to spend time building upgrade paths for several different versions.

I've been looking for an article hack like that...will it work on vb2 or only vb3?? and when will it be available for download?? :squareeyed:

[krohnathlonman]

I really don't think I'm going to release this. I have too many paying jobs right now to work on. the additional things that would need to be done to release this aren't worth my time. I have been adding more and more to this system over time. I even threw in a little search engine archive http://www.iamnotageek.com/b/

As anybody who's written hacks can tell you it's one thing to make things functional on 1 site... It's quite a bit more work to simplify things enough for other people to use. This system was written very specifically for my needs.

[chet]

I thought you may say that, good job I purchased one just in case

Works for me

Chet

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by krohnathlonman

I really don't think I'm going to release this. I have too many paying jobs right now to work on. the additional things that would need to be done to release this aren't worth my time. I have been adding more and more to this system over time. I even threw in a little search engine archive http://www.iamnotageek.com/b/

As anybody who's written hacks can tell you it's one thing to make things functional on 1 site... It's quite a bit more work to simplify things enough for other people to use. This system was written very specifically for my needs.

I Dont mind paying just show me wherever i can get it?

[krohnathlonman]

There's actually people interested in paying for the development of this system?

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by krohnathlonman

There's actually people interested in paying for the development of this system?

Dunno for the other ppl but me yes :nervous:

[Jon Ward]

S'pose I could be counted with all the "others" who had originally looked at the "article system" and then decided this was for them. And have hung in there hoping ... and hoping ... that 'today' it would be released! (Iwould have switched out all the other feature things I really do not need.)

Like all those "others" I am now bitterly disappointed this project seems not at present to be going any further.

Why go the portal route? Why oh why? (There are arguably better supported and better developed solutions anyway!) This route was always going to be testing, and would constantly push things further back as yet more (unwanted) bells 'n whistles were added.

K - your 'article system' looked to be the mutt's nuts .... why not get back on the rails and concentrate on just this aspect of the hack for the time being?

If I must pay for it, so be it - but that implicitly demands of YOU further time in development (bug-freeing) and SUPPORT - the very thing you are perhaps least able to provide right now.

Disappointed strung-along Jon

[krohnathlonman]

I've been quietly doing quite a bit of work on various aspects of the system while you guys have been waiting. As soon as I get the <!--Pagebreak--> code working properly I'll be bringing the WYSIWYG editor in. Basically in its current form it's not the friendliest/easiest system to use, but it does exactly what I need it to do. I have two seperate types of articles now:

http://iamnotageek.com/articles.php
http://iamnotageek.com/tips.php

I've brought the polls in along with tons of bug fixes and optimizations. The portal aspects I haven't spent much time on. I've got news, but haven't finished collecting all the stats I want for a seperate stats page. for a look at the stats go to the bottom of this page: http://iamnotageek.com/index.php

Most of my time has been spent working on search engine positioning and testing quite a few things shooting for more #1 spots. Probably my most recent addition was a spider display of the articles. I just posted them for inclusion to google a few days ago so they should hopefully be indexed by Monday. http://iamnotageek.com/b/

I have some time opening up fairly soon so I might be doing some more work on the article system. If you've been watching my site at all you'll notice that I've been posting a LOT of articles and that's been eating up alot of time, but the traffic has been paying off. The server logs show me I'll be finishing the month with 1.5 million pageviews! roughly 19% of those are in my /archive which is a big improvement since I tweaked that system.... If the search engine stuff picks up even more with the tweaks I've done recently I'll be able to get away with working on my site less and still maintain traffic growth.

[krohnathlonman]

post 1 was updated.....

Most of the people that really wanted the article system got in on the BETA that was posted for a while