She won't read, but...

I spend the last hour and some reading the other thread about the Aeva mod being removed and some other posts made by certain people here and I hate to say this but they all look like they should have been deleted or at least placed to a boar accessible to the staff and those other persons.

It started like that. It started in private places. But they didn't give a damn. That's why I silently left my membergroup. And replaced my downloadable files with links, in order to lead people into visiting my website if they wanted to get the free versions of my mods. I wasn't happy, but that was the least they could do for me -- find a way to keep me relatively happy.
Of course they wouldn't. They could have told me it wasn't allowed and my mods would be deleted entirely. They could. But they didn't. What they did, instead, was to develop quickly made, cheap replacement mods using names that could lead people into thinking they were made my me, put them online, and THEN they deleted my mods. If that doesn't warrant my anger, then what should! It was an obvious attempt to boot me off their website, BY the customize team, and ONLY them as far as I know.
Problem is, the CUSTOMIZE TEAM is the team in charge of all MODS. And I have the most popular SMF mod ever. One of the main Customize team members, who never liked me, wanted me off the site, and saw this as an opportunity to force it.
I only revealed what he did, WHY he did it, and what led me to determine it was him who did it.

Of course, there are also people like you who don't care about that. What you want is free mods, free forum software, and no hassle.

Because it does not beneft the community at large. It only makes a bad impressions and it is rather depressing. in my opinion they seem to be bitter posts from persons who thought that they had a right to be on the Staff because they spend x ampunt of time in Smf or developed x amount of mods.

I'm pretty sure that "Three YEARS, FULL time" is more than enough for ANYONE to justify a SMALL reward such as being introduced into a virtual team in charge of some software. Actually, most of the members of that team joined it very easily, after a couple of months of doing support stuff on the forum. Well, I have over 5000 posts of support on that forum, as well as mods that were downloaded several hundreds of thousands of times, generating thousands and thousands of posts, a feature that none of the competing mods offer, a gallery system that actually does better than all of the standalone gallery systems in many areas, etc, etc...
Of course that didn't count to them. Just the single fact that I joined the SMF Media Gallery team made the Customizer team hate me and ensured that I would never join the SMF team.
Just look at Dragooon -- he's a very nice guy (way nicer than I am). He co-wrote SMF Media Gallery (he actually created it). Was he ever invited into the team? Not that I know of! So it's really about the Customizer team blocking all possibilities of us joining the team.
Now, the rest of the team is taking this into account, and trying to make my life less miserable.
Still, they banned me for revealing that vbgamer45 is behind much of this.

Now, it's up to them... They can kick him out for endlessly using brute force to ensure he kept his position. Arantor and I will provide replacement mods for all of his stuff. And believe me, if Arantor and I come back to the community and join the dev team and everything, SMF2 will be out very soon. I'm pretty sure that's what most users want...

Which leads me to believe that the reason those persons 'helped out or contributed' here with the only reason to be part of the staff.

No. You didn't actually read my posts did you? I helped out for fun. I contributed out of love for the project. But when you spend time working on something, you want to be treated on equal terms with the other people who provide the same level of effort.
When you realize that after three years, practically no one has put as much effort into SMF as YOU have, and yet you have never been awarded any kind of leadership or even team membership, you start getting frustrated.

Ask them for WHY they never took me in the team. They will tell you that it's because I ASKED TOO MUCH to be made a team member. Now ask anyone: was this membership a REASONABLE request? If yes, then they should have given it long ago and it's their fault that anything is happening right now.

nd then they complain why it is taking Smf so long to be released. But what is the Staff going to do first, develop Smf or deal with these bitter persons?

In June 2010, I was made an "apprentice" developer, being promised that this would lead into a team position (right inside the team that was perfect for me -- developing SMF itself). For a month, I was pretty much the only one working on SMF's development (mainly for the last two weeks). I worked real hard on this. After a month (the usual duration of an apprenticeship), I was told the apprenticeship would be extended forever. However, tha decision wasn't due to issues between me and the team -- it was due to the fact that they never planned to actually make me a member of the team. They only wanted my help in finishing SMF and were hoping that I'd be lured into doing it with a "membership prize" over my head.
My question is: did they really think I would work for that? Did they really think I did not think I had deserved that position for at least two years? And they wanted to make me work even more on SMF? For what?
For a month, I fixed so many things, added so many things, that I should have been made a team member in a week. But of course it wasn't about that.

People don't care because they don't go through three years of working hard on something and then get pissed at by those they worked for.

I am sorry if some of my words seemed a little harsh and I am sorry if someone will feel offended by that but it was not my intention at all. I wanted to say soemthing about this situation. Can not we all put all the personal feelings aside and concentrare towards a greater goal whiich is the realse of SMf 2.0 Gold as soon as possible?

If they wanted it out as soon as possible, they should have hired all of those who were willing to do it.
Of course, the single fact that they didn't hire me, and actually tried to use me once again, should tell you a lot. They're willing to get it out ASAP, they're just not willing to do it themselves -- and they're ready to use tricks to make others do it.

SMF, what a fantastic team!!

Basically, it would make me very happy to replace the functionality of all of his mods, and it seems I have some supporters in that direction too. I don't see a need to tackle SGP since I don't really see what it can do that AeMe can't, and what AeMe does better anyway.

Yeah... I remember reading the feature list recently and it had added a couple of features that weren't in AeMe, but I'd added them to my to-do-list anyway, as they're commonplace nowadays (picture tagging, etc.)

I passed it on via someone who still has access to the team, I haven't heard a reply though, and he never replied to my comments publicly about either (have a read of the Anti Spam Links mod and Ignore Topics mod threads including my asking outright if he'd bothered testing the latter, which it was clear he hadn't.)

The Ignore Topics topic is long. I didn't read it at the time. (Ah, yes, another mod that we can easily replace with my stuff.)
Anti Spam, never heard of that mod actually.

Nao: You have a big mouth and you stand on your rights to say what you want. That's fine with me, but then you must also take the consequences!

I always do.

In the past, you several times did not speak nice  to me,

Quotes?
I can see, myself, that you've been hostile to me for quite a long time now. Not that it traumatized me, though.

even I helped with beta testing, provided server access etc. I can live with it, you are French and I'm to old to get pissed off by such actions.
But at sm.org, you have been warned so many times - a lot more times than others and you won't learn. Fine, but take the consequences without moaning! Grov up!

IIRC, I was banned without warning once and immediately unbanned, then I had a warning and was post-banned for a week for answering to insults from a neo-nazi. I always condemned the SMF team's behavior on that. They could simply have TAKEN DOWN his insults. Anyway... That's all. Then I was warned for "insulting" people, last week. I ASKED for quotes of these, but of course didn't get any. Then got perm-banned for "spreading false information", for which I wasn't even warned anyway...

Check your facts before you talk with me, really. I don't have time to waste.

Your post is spot on! Thanks!

Hello.

Back in March, I resigned from my Beta Tester position at simplemachines.org, because I was going nowhere. I wanted to take some time off and decided to end development of Aeva Media as well. Two months later, the SMF team offered me a developer position, after which I also ended up resigning, very angry against the team for their behavior.

At the time (July 28), after discussing with users and family, I decided to resume development on Aeva Media, but only on a commercial version of it. The free version would only be getting security updates (if needed.)
In order to make a stand against the SMF team, I removed my downloadable packages off their mod site, and replaced them with a link to this website. After a while, instead of asking me whether this was intended, they simply deleted my mods and replaced them with a bastardized version, 100% alcohol free. Yikes. Plus, it was using a name that was confusingly similar to Aeva Media.

I didn't appreciate this move on the part of the team, and things went downhill very soon. I managed to have the mod renamed to something else, and the mod page was re-enabled after I re-uploaded the Aeva Lite package. It was a lesser evil for me, as I could leave Aeva Media out of their website and have complete control over its distribution. However, less than a couple of hours after that, they permanently banned me from the SMF website.

As a result:

- I can no longer update the sitelist on the Aeva mod page. This was the only item I had left on that page originally, because deleting it could break functionality. Users of Aeva Lite should thus be using Aeva Media 1.x as a replacement, if they want to be sure the sitelist is updated automatically and quietly as soon as required. I will later release a new version of Aeva Lite with the auto-embedder additions from Aeva Media, as well as a new sitelist address that doesn't rely on the SMF team's good will.

- I can no longer provide support for Aeva Media 1.x on their forum, obviously. They did a lot of changes (such as removing their Aeva Media board and merging all of the support topics into one), but I don't know why they did. The support topic is useless! The mod's author can't even VIEW it! (Well, okay, I can view it next time I change my IP address, but then what does it change...?) So, basically: don't expect support from me on their board. I have nothing else to bring anyway. I will no longer go over there.

- I may in the near future open a support topic for Aeva Media 1.x and Aeva Lite over here. This is not the case for now. I need some time off to digest all of this crap.

Thank you for your time. And thanks to the SMF team for having so much respect for their ex-developer, author of their most popular plugin, main French translator and most zealous beta tester ever. Now, onto another project... This time, I'll make sure it isn't full of self-adoring ninconpoomps.

AeMe 2.x is deprecated. No official support is provided for it. The equivalent of AeMe 3.0 will be provided, for free, in Wedge 1.0.

What is Aeva Media 2.x?

Ah well, that is a good question, I'd like to thank myself for asking it.
As you probably know, Aeva Media is a fantastic (trust me, I know it! ) gallery system for SMF forums. It is entirely free, but things happened, and it became impossible for me to keep maintaining it.
I announced that I would stop supporting and maintaining it, but then a few persons indicated that they would be willing to pay for the software if I were to keep maintaining it. After discussing the idea, I decided to go ahead and do it.

So, in simpler words, Aeva Media 2.x is the follow-up to Aeva Media 1.x, and it includes the Foxy! add-on directly inside the code (you no longer need to install it separately.)

Here's the link to purchase Aeva Media (make sure you have created an account at noisen.com first, and that you're logged in!), and then you can download it on this very board immediately after your purchase. Support is only available to customers.

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Aeva Media 2.0
For SMF 1.1.x and 2.x platforms
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Created and developed by Nao [noisen.com]

Main Features

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EVERYTHING
- It might seem obvious, but AeMe 2.x has all the features in AeMe 1.x... And adds the following:

USER PLAYLISTS
- Give membergroups the permission to create user playlists. Allowed users will be able to
  create playlists by simply visiting any item page and clicking the Playlists drop menu and then
  select "Add to Playlist". Organize your favorites easily and browse them like an album!

JAVASCRIPT+FLASH PLAYLISTS
- Show nice little Flash-powered playlists in these topics, or pretty much anywhere else,
  based on user playlists or anything you want (one or more items, one or more albums...)
- Make your own Foxprog (http://fox.noisen.com) clone in a minute (or ten.) Visit the site
  to see a demo of playlists applied to a music website. Remember you can also do this for
  video or picture websites, the limit is your imagination!

LINKED TOPICS
- Create (or not) a linked notification topic automatically when adding/editing an album.
  You can use this to close per-item comments and have everyone comment on albums instead,
  or subscribe to topic notifications, or harness the power of other topic-related mods.
- A linked topic's first message will feature a Javascript+Flash playlist of its related album.
  Any new item (or group of items, if you use Mass Upload) will also be added as a new message,
  allowing to 'bump' the topic. Each time you create a new album, your preference for linked
  topics will be remembered (i.e., the latest board you posted to will be selected by default,
  or no album if you choose not to use the feature the previous time.) Whether you locked
  the previous topic or not will also be remembered.

SMG BUTTON
- Add a SMG button to the post area, which opens a popup that will allow you to upload
  an item and insert it into your message in as few clicks as possible on SMF2.

EXTERNAL PICTURE EMBEDDING WITH LOCAL THUMBNAIL & PREVIEW
- Embed pictures hosted on another server (Picasa, Photobucket, Imageshack, anything
  you can think of). Thumbnails and previews will be created as needed, but the main files
  themselves will always stay hosted remotely. For this to work as expected, the Aeva mod needs
  to be installed, and it is advised to enable Aeva's "External embedding" feature as well.

RSS FEEDS
- All albums and items now offer RSS feeds to keep you updated for:
  * Latest items - user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.
  * Latest comments - items, user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.

What you can do with playlists

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- Click on "Playlists" in the gallery homepage, and select "New Playlist".
- Enter a name, and a description. You're nearly done.
- Go to any item page in the gallery, and if you want to add it to your playlist, select
  your playlist at the bottom of the page, and submit. You're done.
- After you've added a few items, just go to your playlist page (use the opportunity to see
  how cool it looks), click on Modify, and you can re-order items inside the playlist.
- You can also click on the Comment button to add a personal comment that will show up below
  the item in the public playlist. Please note that this comment will appear *below* existing
  author comments for the item. Consider they're your chance to explain why you chose to add
  that item to your playlist -- just like user lists on Amazon.
- And I'm done.

How to install

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- If Aeva Media is already installed, don't forget to uninstall it before reinstalling it! You won't lose any data. (In fact, you'll never lose your data, unless you manually delete the files by FTP.)
- Go to your forum's admin area, upload the zip file through the Package manager, install it and follow the instructions.

License agreement (no crappy legal details, as usual with me.)

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- If you did not purchase this software, please be honest and do it.
- You can modify the source code all you want.
- Whether you modify it or not -- you are NOT allowed to distribute it.
- If you are thinking of sharing the source code with someone, don't do it. It's not allowed.
- Please do not use this on multiple websites with a single licence. Ask me for authorization if
  you are looking into doing it. I'm listening and I'm open. I like seeing what people do with my software.

Also, if you wish to use this software, you will be bound by the Aeva Media 2.x license agreement.
Please make sure to read it online at http://noisen.com/license-am2.php

Changelog

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v2.04 - October 24, 2010
! Fixed order logic within the preparsing chain, to avoid broken br tags
  when editing album and title descriptions. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

v2.03 - October 7, 2010
! Fixed a security issue.
! Fixed a potential crash during upgrade.
+ Added mention in the readme about possible file corruption when doing FTP transfers
- Removed support for deprecated functions (setInnerHTML, doUBBC) and browsers (IE4, IE5 Mac)
* Tweaks to SMF2 RC3 styling to accomodate for the future.
! Fixed to the menu system, in case submenus are added.

v2.02 - August 28, 2010
* Rewrote YouTube embedding to use their data API. This fixes permanently
  broken lookups after a certain number of videos were embedded.
* If a YouTube video is no longer available, a red exclamation mark
  will now indicate it next to the video's title.
* If an item description is short enough, center it on the page,
  instead of left-aligning it. The limit is hardcoded to 200 characters.
! If an item's filesize was changed after it was uploaded, Aeva Media
  will show a warning. This usually means that the admin attempted to
  re-upload pictures but did it in ASCII mode, rather than Binary.
! Random items in homepage are now shown as a filestack if requested.
! Fixed broken comments area when using code tags inside a comment.
! Fixed broken captions when using the SMG tag on a SSI page, if the caption
  has spaces in it. This is due to admins not preparsing strings as required.
! Fixed broken captions when using the SMG tag, if caption had square brackets.
! Fixed menu system not working in IE8. (Thanks, spuds!)

v2.01 - August 14, 2010
+ Replaced the main Aeva Media bar with a nice new dropdown menu system.
+ Added automatic thumbnail generator to Google Maps embeds. Wasn't easy!
+ Added support for HTML5 audio on audio files, with fallback if incompatible.
* Rewrote much of the download manager-type presentation.
* Split template into two files, for easier maintenance.
+ Added "Icons-only" alternative descriptions to item boxes.
+ Added the ability to disable RSS feeds, playlists, comments and ratings.
! Fixed search engine logic, as well as page index not showing up in search results.
! Fixed string cutter, which, apparently, didn't properly restore entities... Eh?!
* Download count is now used as view count if a document can only be downloaded, not viewed.
! Fixed various error messages that showed up on strict installs of PHP5. Or something.
+ No longer telling you a new version is available, if you're using an unreleased beta.
! Fixed aeva_getList() error message and cleaned up most of the Foxy! hook points.
- Removed support for BBC News embed, as they made it too complicated. Heck.
+ Added support for MP4 files at Ebaumsworld.

v2.0 - July 28, 2010
+ RSS FEEDS
  All albums and items now offer RSS feeds to keep you updated for:
  * Latest items - user profiles, user albums, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.
  * Latest comments - items, user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.

+ SMG BUTTON FOR THE SMF2 MESSAGE EDITOR
  Add a SMG button to the post area, which opens a popup that will allow you to upload
  an item and insert it into your message in as few clicks as possible.

+ LINKED TOPICS
  Create (or not) an associated notification topic automatically when adding/editing an album.
  You can use this to disable per-item comments and force comments on albums instead,
  or subscribe to topic notifications, or harness the power of other topic-related mods.
  Any new item (or group of items, if you use Mass Upload) will bump the topic. Each time you
  create a new album, the latest board you posted to will be selected by default, or no album
  if you chose not to use the feature the previous time.) Whether you locked the previous topic
  or not will also be remembered. See the feature in action at Foxprog (http://fox.noisen.com/)

+ EXTERNAL PICTURE EMBEDDING WITH LOCAL THUMBNAIL & PREVIEW
  Embed pictures hosted on another server (Picasa, Photobucket, Imageshack, anything.)
  Thumbnails and previews will be created, the main files themselves will be hosted remotely.

+ USER PLAYLISTS
  Give membergroups the permission to create user playlists. Allowed users will be able to
  create playlists by simply visiting any item page and clicking the Playlists drop menu and then
  select "Add to Playlist". Organize your favorites easily and browse them like an album!

+ JAVASCRIPT+FLASH PLAYLISTS
  Show nice little Flash-powered playlists in linked topics, or manually anywhere else,
  based on user playlists or anything you want (one or more items, one or more albums...)
  Again, visit Foxprog to see a demo of playlists applied to a music website.

+ Allowed disabling the gallery globally, and hiding the Media button from admins.
! Google Maps embeds were broken when added at the beginning of a message
! Fixed crashes on some servers when embedding pictures through MGalleryItem.php
! Fixed videos not properly embedding when shown through a box or album-type embed
! When showing an item more than once in a page, further occurrences would break.
! Replaced 'x' with the proper math sign for showing picture width/height
! Avoid double ampersands in embeds. They may work but they're unwanted.
! Avoid box shadows on generic icons, in case the website's custom CSS adds any.
! Fixed various Javascript bugs caused by the galurl variable not being defined.
* When showing search results as a playlist, show twice more results than usual.
* Don't show item's uploader in album pages, if it was uploaded by the album owner.

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Support and updates for the mod can be found at the Aeva Media board. If you have a problem purchasing it, please PM me.

Hello and welcome to the official Aeva Media website.
This is the place where you can purchase and download the latest version of Aeva Media.

Tech support from the kind author is kindly provided to kind customers. Hello there, kind customer! Thanks for your support!

Users of the free version are welcome to use the official topic at simplemachines.org, on which the author sometimes posts, but not always, and reserves his right to laugh at newbies. (Hey, everyone goes through this, it's nothing personal )