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Bill
On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Dave Wooldridge wrote:
on 12/5/06 7:19 AM, Björn Eiríksson wrote:
I think a add-on tracker for REALbasic would be good. (On that REAL
would link to).
Some might say RB Garage is one, but no it does not come close to
it, it
has no versioning, nor any cleanup of obsolete add-ons, making it
useless both for users and Vendors. IE Products that actually are
supported get buried deep down there while products that get
posted once
and never more supported contribute to keep the actual products
buried
in the useless pile of items.
And who would spend their precious time constantly reviewing the
1,000's of
listings every week to make sure they are not obsolete or
unsupported? And
how would one know if a product is still supported without spending
some
more extra time to contact the developer? Since many times the
product may
no longer be supported but the developer still has their web page
up, making
it hard to easily identify what products are still valid.
RBGarage.com currently relies on the developers who post their
listings to
keep them updated and current. It is the developer's
responsibility to log
into their RBGarage.com account and remove discontinued products.
This is
how VersionTracker.com does it as well.
I've always been a huge supporter of the REALbasic community, which
has been
my driving force to continue offering RBGarage.com as a free online
resource, but I don't make any money from RBGarage.com. Since 2003,
RBGarage.com has only received 1 donation from a kind member, even
though
thousands of people use the site on a daily basis. The advertising
that the
site currently displays only pays for some of the bandwidth and
hosting
fees, so RBGarage.com actually costs me money every month, and yet
and I
continue to offer it as a free web site to the REALbasic community.
So here's my big question to the REALbasic community:
The only way I could afford to dedicate time to "policing" the
RBGarage.com
database to personally weed out obsolete and old listings is if
RBGarage.com's revenue stream increased to the point where the site
was
actually making some money instead of losing money. Then I could
dedicate
some of the revenue to increased site development.
The only way I see that happening is if I charge a membership fee
to search
RBGarage.com's database. Listings would continue to be free to
submit, but
using the site to find helpful items would require a monthly or annual
membership fee. This would also allow me to add more services and
features,
such as removing advertising and offering a handy desktop app for
searching
and tracking listings on RBGarage.com.
Would REALbasic developers be willing to pay a membership fee to
subscribe
to RBGarage.com???
My guess is that everyone's answer will be "no" and that they will
want to
see RBGarage.com continue as a free site, yet people will still
complain
about the listings (even though it is a free service).
BJORN:
Please note that my reply is NOT directed at you. Your comments
are merely
one of many that get periodically voiced on the mailing lists from
various
people about RBGarage.com and so I felt the need to reply to the
community
as a whole.
I gladly welcome any and all feedback on the issue. Please email me
directly with your comments, so as not to clog up the NUG. Thanks!
Regards,
Dave Wooldridge
RB Garage Webmaster
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