Category: SMF Articles

­­­­­­­­­­­It’s always a sad state of affairs when members seem to realise more is wrong than the people behind it.  For years now I and many Friends of a known software have stated that there is an issue arising, one that will not go away until it is admitted.  The constant reply from the current… Continue reading I am at it again ….

Simple Machines Forum, is one of the last old school forums, over the last few years it has seen a lot, from what is now known as the January Incident, in 2010, to the poor recruitment of developers willing to work for the once strong industry leader.  Its been accused of lapsing security and hit… Continue reading Falling Short

Years ago when I wrote an article about the Cus team, I believed a Themer as Cus lead would encourage more themes, its sad to say that today I need to alter this perception.  A themer that makes themes needs to be Cus lead.  At this time we have a Cus lead that does not… Continue reading Mods? Themes? Where?

Now I am one of these people that snoops around and likes to pull issues up as we all know there is many of these articles on SMF, well today I am going to change my target and look at a Portal, we all know we all love or loathe it, this portal is Dream… Continue reading The Downfall of the Dream

On September 25th I placed a mod on the modsite, October 17th I got message asking me to update the mod to use two text strings instead of one, the mod hadnt even been downloaded so they never even tested this was a quick message asking me to do something that does not break any… Continue reading Cus Team what is taking so long

For once I am going to look past the SMF teams shortfalls, as I dont want everyone to think that that is purely the concern on SMF, yesterday in my post in General Chat on this forum, regarding Blocs Retirement, I quoted part of a message from Bloc to myself: Quote But you know as… Continue reading Theme Innovation

Over the last few months a few of us have had many insults thrown at us from various team members and the communities we visit.  One thing that we hear alot is that we all want SMF to die, that we are all anti smf, ive had a personal message from Christian A. Herrnboeck attacking me… Continue reading SMF Death

So we all know what happened in January the red badges trying to take control of the company against what the team and project is founded on, so 7 months on what has changed, well besides the team at an all time low, and compuart standing down, tbh nothing really.  Ok a new NPO has… Continue reading January Events – Think

In my article SMF Free For All, I brought to the publics attention on how team members are now allowed to do work that the CM offers, with others explaining how this is poor for SMF.  After discussion with a lead (JimM) bringing the steering committee to attention of the fact this breaks the team… Continue reading The Messiah

This is a call, a call to the SMF Team, offer your services of installing smf, co nverting forums, and upgrading them, offer your services that are cheaper the the charter membership, one team member is and guess what he is being let off with it as the team manual seems to mean nothing.  Straight… Continue reading SMF Free For All