SOME think that open source means that everything they see they are entitled to. If they do not get it then they throw tantrums; especially when things do not go the way they think they should.

I really do not think people are grasping the concept that people are doing this on their own free time. As I understand it Danial was in the midst of his PHD. PHD!!! Anyone here know what kind of time and effort goes into obtaining one of these? Not many I can say for sure. But I can tell you one thing, were I getting MY PHD Fireboard would NOT be the first thing I thought about when I woke up in the morning. One of the team was not in very good health and has not been seen on the forums in quite some time. Did anyone notice his absence?

The point being that these people have lives just like we do and unfortunately FB is not the biggest priority most of the time.

The general Fireboard community is not privy to the happenings behind the scenes. For the most part it seems not to matter to most of the 10K+ members of the forums (and lord knows HOW many more people that have actually downloaded Fireboard). MOST of them are patient enough to realize that good things take time. MOST of them know that MOST of these new features will make it into future releases and if some of them do NOT then they are satisfied with that too. BUT there always have to be the few that want to offer speculation in place of actual facts. These are the ones that want to tell the FB team what it should be doing based on what is more important to themselves ALL THE WHILE not knowing ANYTHING about what is going on behind the scenes. Those kinds of people will NEVER be satisfied and will ALWAYS be offering their opinions and demanding one thing or another.

So to the BOJ team, I applaud your efforts. Just when everyone thought that FB was the greatest thing for Joomla since sliced bread you come along and get everyones mouth salivating with the site makeover and a ton of new features. If you can do that part-time I can only imagine what FB will look like now that you have a little more time and people on the project.

Now, about giving mods the ability to ban people...

Yep, great up for danialt and his PHD for the OS community worldwide and for the BOJ project. I hope sometime critics are welcome, as being in the middle of my phd too...critics are the only things I like as they help you understand and see things from others perspectives, understnding problems and widening ur mindset.

great job, can't wait for firemessage any date on it? i deeply need a pms system for my site, so it this gonna take months id like to know

thanks

Hey All,

grumblemarc and nickb are right. many things have happened behind the scences and we try to get over them the best way. So, here we are, with only a bit of time left we wanted to finish this project that was left on table for looong time.

We will soon put a project about Firemessage and when we get enough developers and volunteer people we will release it. With the current load of Fireboard it would be crazy to add another load and make people sad by not being able to support it. This will happen in a day or two.

We need more people on Dev side and with current attitudes of people (only taking) instant results are not possible. Thanks to the effort of guys like Miro and grumblemarc, Jan erik and Oracle you can see all the things coming. So, if you want it faster, as I say always, give us a hand, like nickb does. You are totally welcome.


and well, final word, you should not mind people like babylon. His/her attitude has been always like that and I don't want to ban people. We all have full time jobs (most of people on dev team) and people like greatpixels have 17hr/d jobs. If we do something we cut from our own resting/private lives. It's just the question that if it were you, would you do it too?

so, help us help you

Cheers

danialt wrote:

We will soon put a project about Firemessage and when we get enough developers and volunteer people we will release it. With the current load of Fireboard it would be crazy to add another load and make people sad by not being able to support it. This will happen in a day or two.

Thank you for your reply, i would love to help but i don't have any kind of knowledge regarding programming lol i have a small comunity i can test it on my site thats all i can do.

but from your reply i think it will take atleast 2-3 months to get a working and bug free pms system for fireboard, judging from the boj website i thought it was almost done and the team were ready to release it anytime soon.

iam forced to use another pms system, cause right now beside our forum our members can't contact each other.

thanks again for a great component

Well, Firemessage is already pretty stable, only has small bugs. So it is a question of enough man power. also you don't need to be a dev to help, you can help on forums too.

cheers

When will the download section work again?

danialt wrote:
Well, Firemessage is already pretty stable, only has small bugs. So it is a question of enough man power. also you don't need to be a dev to help, you can help on forums too.

cheers

sounds great hope people will join the work with firemessage,..

well if i can help with anything beside programming iam ready to do so, just holla at me..

already made my self noticed in the danish section lol

regards

If you still need some Support for Firemessage, I'd be willing to join the Team

As I'm just in the process of re-designing and spicing up our site (check v2.overdose.at - Work in Progress atm), I'm also switching from Joomlaboard to Fireboard (not yet online, I'm still working on the Template) and I could also switch from myPMS to FireMessage for testing-purposes (we've got some 100 users, who message each other quite a lot).
I could probably also help diagnosing and fixing errors (if there are any ), since I work with Joomla and PHP/MySQL in general on a daily basis...

Let me know, what you think

I can see this question has been asked before but I cannot find a complete response... I am also hoping to get maybe an updated answer.

The template the "best of joomla" team is forum their forum is AWESOME to say the least. Is a similar version available for download? I would also be willing to pay for a fireboard template like this. Any suggestions.

Thanks guys. This template is so inspiring for the fireboard project.