Hello Digital Concepts!
Sorry, I do not know your name. Have you checked it out how long the new.html and the day in each build it up? Lets say if you had a hundred or a few hundred links incoming how long would that be, on each day? Is it not ridiculous situation that a user comes and complains after buying a product that it produces a few megabytes of a page.
Hello Mr. Pataki!
What Digital Concepts said, I beleive it should be the basic. It should have been in there. I also feel for some things that many things are also really basic and also should be in there.
Further, you say everyone expects more of Alex. Thats not true. This discussions are a result of a need and situation. If things are not going in the right way, a situation is provoked. But please do not debat on such english sentences of mine, I may not be able to convey the right thing.
I mean, when I buy a software, I expect some kind of basic import-export routines in there that the program understands during the exports and also imports. Am I expecting too much or is there a feeling that the expectation MUST be less for a price of $450?
Further, more the program is user friendly, more are the features, more support it gives to the webmasters needs MORE USERS/BUYERS IT DRAWS.
I have received THREE EMAILS from people who watched the kind of problems I am passing through. They have a similar guess that thaey will also have absolutely similar problems and refrain from buying. They thing the price is a bit more in terms of the features it offers and they knew better programs which were more expensive but more comforts.
I did not agree with them at this point. I am convinced that the price is correct and what Alex has done is wonderful. I am also sure that these people are looking at this thread also
I will always say this that Links SQL is a very good product and there are serious reasons of saying so regardles of my problems. It is the intellect / Concept that is important to dicsuss here.
Somehow, people are used or seasoned to expecting less in the perl world, a known fact. Comparing to all the features Windows 98 or Win NT has to offer me, and its price reagarding to Links SQL, Windows NT should costs me a Million.
A software is an attraction to buy for a webmaster based on its features. As a matter of fact in all fields. A radio or a television for that matter. What features convinces the client. Why should that be the most attractive thing to buy.
TEMPLATES. An extra-ordinary feature. I can talk to my friends how it works. Excellent feature of Links SQL. Can I talk the same of Category pop up list? The kilometer long one that i have for 4600 categories?
DYNAMIC. Build on-the-fly the dynamic feature. Can I talk how good it is without knowing it? Where is it written?
INSTANT AVAILABILITY OF FIELD TAGS. Great.
<%If Problems%>
<%Nightmares%>
<%endif%>
I can talk so wonderful about them. They are so easy to use as in the example above.
But my dear friends : What about this nightmares I have to handle 200 links submissions and 4600 categories:
-Kilometer long category listing for 4600 categories.
-No real Multiple category support but only an additional category.
-Validation routine build 200 kilobyte for ten links per page
-Could be one and a half Megabyte long New/Cool pages.
-Cannot import/export without nightmares.
-Cannot build with more than one to two thousand categories.
-More i can also list down.
This above ARE NO MODS OR EXTRA COUSTOM EXPECTIONS.
Links SQL has one greatest attraction of using MySQL that one can use with medium size directories. I am sure it is going to be a star program in the year 2000 and beleive and have trust and faith in Alex, a great programmer, to get the program developing in the right way in terms of the design value in many areas discussed above. I see his power in the codes and the concept and hope to see them continue.