This post is going to be a huge rant. If you aren’t a fan of rants or a bit of bad language then I suggest you stop reading this now.
The Forum Insider was meant to be an online community for forum enthusiasts, developers and a place to discuss new emerging trends that was an UNBIAS source of information. You know what it has turned in to now? A few things:
- A place for little kids to bitch, whine and complain about changes to forum scripts such as the commercialization of Invision Power Board.
- A place for developers to happily spam their product about saying “x is better than y so why not use x?”
- A place where the members fuel each other for arguments, fights, and snap snap snap at each other.
- A MyTopix fan-boy website.
I used to visit The Forum Insider every day (sure I didn’t post that often) as it were a great information resource for updates on other discussion boards, a friendly place to chat with other developers, and maybe even a place to gain a few customers (not by spamming MyBB everywhere though!)
Sure, MyTopix is a nice new feature driven forum package but do we really need every second topic in the user announcements forum to be about every little source code change in MyTopix? A thread about screenshots for MyTopix? What the hell makes this board any better than others to make it deserve a thread about admin cp screenshots in the User Announcements forum?
There seems to be the little MyTopix fan club now trolling the TFI (Forum Insider) forums too. Like I said, this resource was supposed to present an unbiased view of discussion systems not promote MyTopix at every little chance there is.
People come to TFI to bitch and complain about changes that IPS have made to their forum software, IPB. Even though they’re a competitor, I say good luck to them and they have every right to make the decision they did. What people don’t have the right to do is complain about their decision. They need to get over the fact the board is paid and find another system to use or fork out the licensing fees. For something that has had a lot of work put in to it (like any Microsoft product for that matter) they deserve to earn a bit back from it.
Arguments. Oh boy does it piss me off when reading threads to see people bickering at each other saying crude comments such as “I might reply to ekerazha later, I can’t be bothered to spend the time required to explain simple facts to an arrogant idiot right now”, “ekerazha stop talking out of your arse, and stop pretending you know what your talking about!” and then the all famous cynical roll eyes smilie as a reply to those messages.
Is it really necessary to make personal attacks against these people for their thoughts, beliefs or whatever? It is their opinion and sure if they have some wrong facts then set them straight in a nice manner and don’t just bicker with them over it. Jesus people.
I thought if anyone knew how to act on community forums it would be the members of TFI as most are either developers of a board or are active participants or users of board software but recent posts have proven to me otherwise.
Things like this seem to have erupted when Long left TFI. Come back Long!
It may seem like I was attacking only MyTopix here but I just took a recent example..
