"No comment" problems

tfixbt posted 3rd of June 2008 in Community Voice. 7 comments.

Hey guys,

First: I'm so freaked out, so please do not expect me being more easy on these problems.

There are a lots of problems about Dolphin, Orca, and Ray.

Dolphin

1. Shipping in zip

You know "tar"? Tar can handle permissions. Zip CAN'T. The first f*cking problem is permissions... You know what I mean? Manually adjust file permissions on 70 files? Okay, I wrote a script for it...


2. Translation issues

Many, many errors in sql, in the strings, the keys. Much-much wired words and expressions in the php code.

3. _in_x_days {0} {1} ....

No howto, no default values, nothing. What do you expect? Okay, I searched the Unity, and I found traces of solution in a post, as a "maybe". LOL. What can I say?

4. Profile fields

In Firefox, the Fields builder extremely slow. Almost unusable. After a modification, join.php gives "database query error". I have to search through the messy php code, and I found the db_cache. Okay, NEW_ITEM is not exactly the field we added. But okay,
shit happens. Let's move on! I deleted the NEW_ITEM field from sql, and made a little change in the order of the fields to get the cache saved again.

I can't possibly learn how to use this illogic way of treating Profile fields, boxes, and navigation.

5. Convert stuff

We bought the old dolphin. We buy the fresh one. Can you help us convert the database? Yes! For extra cost. Are you insane?

6. S-L-O-W!

The entire site is slow. Other dolphins are slow, too. Your boonex.com is slow. This Unity site is slow. Madness!

7. Different third party stuff

See registration. You are using a js calendar, that doesn't respect the date format I gave it.

At the events manager, you use another dhtml calendar, which I know and I like. But in your software, this calendar works sh*t. I can't expect much, really. Just a convention about many things, includes the calendars, too!

8. URL -s to old links

- inbox.php

- cc.php

I made rewrite rules to avoid the problem. This is absolutely ridiculous. Have you ever tried your own software even once ?

9. Site Stats

Correct admin site to control Site Stats? No. Nothing.

The polls count in site stats counts the user polls, but the link next to it is referring to the admin polls. He?? I've to delete it from the Site Stat...

10. I can't find many tweakable settings at the admin.

Why? Just wondering...

11. Edit language strings

The whole system is fulled with slow, f*cked up ajay queries. But I have to add and edit language strings in a popup window. Riciulous, again.

Orca

PLEASE! Check whether XSLT supported in php or not! Not just xsl. One can see a html mixed xml mess, if there is no xslt support. I can't express my anger about this.

Ray

1. WHERE CAN I find the phantom chat rooms? I truncated all of the chat room tables in sql, but the rooms are still there.


Where can I translate the welcome message (of Lobby) ? I couldn't find them in the xml's.

2. Movie module - UPLOAD and BROWSE button... We can't translate them. The btnUpload and btnBrowse are in the xml, but I think you wired these to words too...

3. Find me a chat software without an administration or moderation, in fact without any controlling area. What? Yes! You successfully created it.

I can't write down all of my problems, but this is enough for some time I guess....

I can understand that there are bugs in every software... but these are not just bugs... serious problems that make this software a junk.

Without programming knowledge I would failed with Dolphin 6.1 many, many times. Can I get half of our money back?

Please, immediately answer our questions (marked with bold), beacuse you drive us crazy.

You can be certain that we'll need help about many more problems soon, so let's help figure them out.

Thanks.

Ps.: I tried to submit this blog post, I got "window.parent.toggleSubmits is not a function" error.

 
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houseperu
Hi everyone, ihave been used 6.5 and everything was perfect
but now with the 6.1 all is wrong
i have problem with the links of many pages
Photos videos Board etc the music dosent play the user cant vote all is going in a bad way
please i need help

the url is:
www.houseperu.com
www.houseperu.com/index.php
houseperu
I need help to make work 6.1 perfect
AndreyP
_in_x_day
is key since 6.1.0
and have value In {0} Day{1}
look here:
INSERT INTO `LocalizationKeys` VALUES(2791, 1, '_x_minute_ago');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationKeys` VALUES(2792, 1, '_x_hour_ago');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationKeys` VALUES(2793, 1, '_x_day_ago');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationKeys` VALUES(2794, 1, '_in_x_minute');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationKeys` VALUES(2795, 1, '_in_x_hour');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationKeys` VALUES(2796, 1, '_in_x_day');

INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES(2791, see more 1, '{0} Minute{1} Ago');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES(2792, 1, '{0} Hour{1} Ago');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES(2793, 1, '{0} Day{1} Ago');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES(2794, 1, 'In {0} Minute{1}');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES(2795, 1, 'In {0} Hour{1}');
INSERT INTO `LocalizationStrings` VALUES(2796, 1, 'In {0} Day{1}');

so it was include even in 6.1
houseperu
hi AndreyP
i dont understand you
what i have to do, could you help me
please i need it
pradolphin
Hi

I using Dolphin 6.1 ,

i need help in how to create feature for post comment on articles.
Any help?
prakash
pradolphin
Hi
i am new for Dolphin
I using Dolphin 6.1 ,

i need help in how to create feature for post comment on articles.
Any help?
prakash
intersim
I am in absolute agreement with you on this and I think the problem stems also from the abuse of open source culture. BX attempts to do two things that mean that dolphin in my opinion will FOREVER be a terrible buggy project namely:

1) Foster a closed exclusive and paid support culture (including the notions of a closed community and closed community support with your boonex id etc and licences) This is especially apparent in the way they clearly categorize buggy, incomplete code or whole sections see more of the product as support (eg. paying for foreign language files / people being asked to remove free language files from posts - WTF??)

2) Allow the product to become spaghetti code that is patch upon patch and follows no design rational nor design patterns merely as a method of obfuscation to engender support requests.

...but then again I guess if you are here already you probably know this...

PS you say you ran a rewrite rule to change cc.php and inbox.php to new files do you know what they were?
 
 
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