Aeva Lite 7.1.708 is out!
http://aeva.noisen.com/download/

Errr, well... Not really!

But I've set up a beta version for you to try out. Warning, this is UNTESTED, because it's incompatible with Aeva Media, and I don't have a test server available for now.

Features added:
- forcing cache to be disabled on posts, because this would break Javascript code.
- support for HTML-type embedding, and Google Maps (which uses just that)
- support for YouTube's data API. It fixes broken lookups after embedding a certain amount of videos.
- fixed (hopefully) internal version numbers, avoiding some broken sitelists.
- more minor fixes from the Aeva Media 2.x codebase. (And yes, right now, a few of these fixes aren't in Aeva Media 1.3a, but they're planned for a future 1.3b update.)

PS: please post this to the SM.org Aeva Media topic if you don't mind. Post a link to this topic as well, in case I post any update/gold release.

Well, its a BBC for phpbb that adds support for Guild Wars skills and builds..

Ah, yes I remember... You offered me to help play through the main quest in GW1, didn't you? (Well, never had time to relaunch it anyway...)

Arantor and Nao, are there any books or tutorials that would stand out in your mind to help someone (like me) learn php (and php sql integrations.. something I have never gotten) properly.

I learned it all by reading through the SMF code back in the day...

Did vbgamer code that?   

I guess I wouldn't know how to do it, either, if it's not built into the SSI calls...

Nao, I have said it before and I will say it again.  Aeva and SMG are what kept me from switching forum scripts a long time ago...

It kept a lot of people in the SMF family, it would seem.

I was going to go to phpbb (not really because its better or worse but had something my site needs).  In fact, I loved smf and aeva/smg so much, I learned a very small amount of php and crudely ported the thing I needed to smf instead.

Lol...
What was that thing?

Personally, if you port aeva to something else I will no doubt end up following.  I just hope I can transfer my sites database.. then I will probably be porting my mod again but such is life but it is a big relief to hear that things might be getting back on track with you and smf.org.

Well, I'll be porting it yes, but it'll be very easy to convert to the new direction.
What I have yet to decide, however, is whether I'll turn AeMe into a stand-alone platform with a bridge system to connect it to SMF. I dunno.

I can tell that you are one of the best mod makers supporting smf and for them to close you out is crazy.  You're an engineer and engineers are not usually people persons, they should understand that and account for it..

I'm a nice fellow IRL, I just happen to be trying too hard at humoring people. And my jokes fall flat more often than not.
As with many other geeks, I was the smart boy at school, always laughed at, etc. Not exactly easy to make friends with other kids. Wasn't lucky enough to meet other nerds until much later, when the damage was done and my sense of humor became a destructive shell.
How much is it, Doctor?

assign some people persons under you to provide more customer friendly if they want... (I doubt you would mind if other people answered all the annoying little questions).

Well, if people are under me, I have to give them something else in exchange

My point is I think you were/are too good of a resource to loose.. much less throw away.

Don't worry. My energy is rarely if ever wasted.

I'd like to put up a new topic, but there is no where else in this forum will allow me to do as such a thing.

Technically, this topic's purpose was also to leave a door open to non-AeMe2 customers to talk with me. I'm not opening an entire board or custom-titled topic mainly because I don't want to get another flood of support requests. I really, really, REALLY do not have time right now to provide support for Aeva Media 1.x and Aeva Lite. Actually, it's a pretty good thing I got banned... Now that I've recovered my access to the mod site, I don't really have a reason to fight against the ban anymore. I'm too busy to think about it anyway.

What I would like to see in the new commercial version, which I have no issue to purchase, is the "slide show" feature link.
I know that the feature is already there, but it is not " friendly user".  An average user will not know how to access (use) this feature, if he/she is lucky enough to click on any photo, then he/she MAY find out that he/she has to click on the "right arrow" to activate the slide show.
A " slide show" link on the main page of any photo album would be a big help!

I see... Well, Dragooon's mod is still available on smf-media.com I believe, but it only works on SMF Media Gallery.
I assumed that the free slideshow in AeMe1 would be well enough for everyone to be happy with. I myself don't use any kind of slideshows really. I agree that a button would be nice, though. And being able to view all of the gallery pics in one place. I *could* write something indeed. Like, spitting out to a Javascript block a list of all items in the album, and just make the code show each associated preview, through Ajax, wait a bit, and skip to the next. I just don't want to take Dragooon's mod without his authorization. (And I haven't had the opportunity to talk with him for several months.)

Unfortunately, I have so many interesting features to add to AeMe2, and so little time, that I can't promise it will be done before the next few months. I'm currently overwhelmed by the amount of work I have in various projects.

One more thing, the slide show feature only plays the current page, not the whole album.
I will support this software in a heart beat, if this feature is available

I understand your concern, but it is not customary for me to implement a feature because someone pretty much says they will buy the software if it has it. My custom is to say, if you like the software, support it. If you want a feature, write it. If you can't, you may ask for it, but I'll never take "preorders" on my software. Why? Because if you're buying something only because it has feature X or Y, it means you don't care about the hundreds of features AeMe has, and you don't realize that they took me 2 years of work to implement and that, as such, if you're using AeMe1 right now and plan to keep using it, you really should be upgrading it, regardless of whether a feature will be added to it in the future.

Anyway. AeMe1 will not add any features in the future, so if this one is added, it'll be in AeMe2. You can just wait and see if I announce support for it one day.

If there's an official announcement, it will first be in the Aeva Media 2 boards because it's a private area and we need privacy, and to plan stuff as well.

I'm very tired today so I'm going slowly, sorry.

Thank you, this is very kind of you. I do remember you, yes. Footnotes has a special place in my heart -- it's a mod I'm proud of (in technical terms), it's the first stand-alone mod I created from scratch, and it's so obscure that I've never had a problem with supporting it.

Can someone tell Eleglin about the reasons why I banned Kindred, as explained here?
Just post the URL to this topic, over to that topic:
http://www.simplemachines.org/...nity/index.php?topic=395581.20
Thanks. I don't like one-way conversations.

A few weeks back I was seriously thinking of moving over to VB. It had the core forum software and a portal. However the show stopper came when I looked closer and there just was nothing close to Aeva Media 

To think that they never even bothered to contact me and ask me to port it!

Arantor, did you get my PM? OK you got it, but did you read it?

I'll let you read his comments on the subject for yourself - http://arantor.org/index.php?topic=112.msg1705#msg1705

Impressive topic.
He's even more of a *bleep* than I first thought.
(Replace *bleep* with whatever you want... "Genius" if you'd like.)