And I'd add in the commentary from http://aeva.noisen.com/6138/a-...utionary-tale-for-aeva-haters/ too...

Hello, I have just installed aeva on my boards and I cannot get the auto-embed feature to work.  Probably something I am doing or not doing, but still some help would be appreciated..
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Paul

I do not believe Nao is providing support for AeMe 1.4 or Aeva Lite at this time, especially not in a thread with "No support!" in the thread's title...

I bought it in April, didn't download it as I had other things going on, and I figured, rightly, that I had a year's licence to download.

I came to download them in August, found I couldn't, posted a message on SMF Hacks indicating that it seemed odd but that it could have been an honest issue. That was 17th August.

vbgamer replied same day to advise he was moving everything to his Download Suite (as I'd pointed out it didn't look good for him to be selling various things that he wasn't even using himself), so I asked where I could download the software in the meantime.

After several more posts - without reply, and PMs to him, I still got nowhere. So I took it to the semi-private board on simplemachines.org, whereupon it was pointed out to me that it should have remained private. I agreed, but if I can't get satisfaction from the man, what else am I supposed to do? In any case, I felt that the team should be aware how one of their number is treated.

I even posted a copy of the thread from vbgamer's forum before he removed it. I was accused of stirring up drama, when I hadn't received something I had legitimately paid for.

I let this settle in the Friends board for a couple of days, hoping for some kind of sane resolution, but I guess I was hoping too far - because subsequently once I suggested that if I couldn't get resolution any other way I'd have to look into taking it to court - and sure enough I was banned shortly thereafter with 'License terminated' as the reason.

I was theoretically able to download way back in April when I pointed out that he was serving his software as attachments, however I never downloaded them, on the basis I'd download them as and when I was ready. Either way, I'm out $250 and have nothing to show for it, especially since the licence was otherwise good until April 2011.

At this point, I'm fed up to the back teeth with the entire SMF team and they can go whistle.

The only reason I don't just repost both threads is because I foolishly agreed not to disclose anything else from the private boards.


Reposted making it more general, http://arantor.org/index.php?topic=160.0

That's pretty much the idea. A forum's success is based on how it manages to compel its community with its features. But a community's success is measured against how much they discuss OTHER things than the website's original goal. I think

+1 entirely

Will there be any support for a failed 1.4 upgrade in the near future?

In a thread marked "no support"...? Probably not...

I can't remember where Nao posted that he's not providing support for the free version, either...

I'm *not* providing support to free customers, because (1) I don't have the time (you'll understand why in a few months and then you'll probably apologize for wasting my time at a critical moment), (2) the SMF team banned me and I have no reasons and no interest in helping them.

^^ from the author. That's why the link doesn't work.

And doubly so, in a thread whose title begins with "No support!"

Sure, I remember about the CM stuff. I even seem to remember encouraging people to see it for what it was - a security patch as well as bugfix. Sure, it was PR but it was also done because it needed doing. But a lot of the ranting was directed at the way the team were acting, covering stuff up etc. Ranting at how the team are saying it's all good and not to panic and how everything is wonderful but behind the scenes, it's the same crock it always was. Though it's nearly 6 months on, I don't really remember and don't fancy forking out a further $50 to find out. (I suppose I could create a new account and provide proof of transaction when I bought CM earlier in the year, but that seems much too much like effort all around)

That said, CMs are now getting 2 preview releases a month, so I hear, which can't really be bad. Though it does sort of water down what beta testers get by comparison (mind you, that's a whole other story)


Sure, they're both time limited licences - for support and updates. You can still use either after the licence expires. The difference is that SGP is badly written, by a person who has admitted his own lack of QA, the same person who says he does it for fun but is more than happy to stick a price tag on something that appears badly written even to moderately experienced coders.