Ik vond via-via een interessant stukje op een forum
Op sommige punten is het stukje wat negatief, maar er zit ook wel een stukje waarheid in.Hello SusiBiker
It was just a matter of reporting information and who received “credit” for said post that started on a forum on dvdrs.net.
Yes, Simon Horup could have and should have had a “temporary” NewsLeecher within 24HRS somewhere else (other than b-one.net) to at least notify his paying customers that there are issues with the old site hosted by b-one.
Further, since NewsLeecher is a “sister” company to another Simon Horup commercial venture, Crystal Art Software (http://www.casdk.com/), there is not a word from Simon Horup on the main page regarding the long outage!!!! Just an “outdated” 29OCT04 blurb plugging NewsLeecher!
One would expect an apology from Simon Horup, since it was his continued work on “SuperSearch”, and the tremendous bandwidth it consumes was directly related to the outage.
If I wanted an “indexing service”, I would have bough an “indexing service”; no, I bought NewsLeecher with the impression and anticipation that Simon Horup would continue development of NewsLeecher in a “timely” manor, not “take the money and run”. Simon Horup has taken a great deal of money from many paying NewsLeecher customers, and has “returned” the favor by taking excessive time off (entire month of August, most of December), and developing unneeded/unwanted features (i.e. SuperSearch).
Since August, Simon Horup, has gone off on a “programming tangent” by developing SuperSearch”, devoting excessively too much time on said, instead of resolved the many known “bugs” in the 1.0 release.
Maybe Newsleecher was not making the income that Simon Horup though it would for him, so this idea of a subscription based “SuperSearch” that may increase his income.
Simon Horup should and must complete in a timely manor the development to the 3.0 release as stated in his time line for NewsLeecher, and cease work on “SuperSearch” since these efforts have been a great detriment to the continued development of NewsLeecher.
Simon Horup has not answer any emails I have sent in almost a month, and there is no support for NewsLeecher at this point in time.
Commercial software sales and development is not something that one can operate on a whim, or when ever the mood suites one.
The Dutch and EU investigative authorities should be notified, and complaints registered with the them because this is beginning to look and smell like international consumer fraud on a grand scale.
NewsLeecher is (?was?) a “good product”, which needs further development on its core functionality (caching et al) that was never resolved on the official 1.0 release. Additional features and functions should not have been introduced until this core functionality issue was resolved; this includes SuperSearch.
I also think Simon Horup, is not being fully “honest”, and revealing that issues that occurred in his life in late July or early August, that resulted in him taking an unannounced sabbatical for the month of Augusts just prior to the 1.0 release. Since that period in time, news from Simon Horup has been sporadic at best, limited or no participation in the support forums, and lengthy delays in code updates (beta 2.0). He gave no reason or justification for his unannounced August sabbatical, other that he would have a “support mechanism” in place for NewsLeecher shortly; so far, this has yet to exist. Another similar event was the month of December, whereas for the entire month no news or code updates were received after the 02DEC04 ß9 code release till a short 05JAN05 news “blurb”. Now we have this latest event regarding the web site outage, and the lack of any response or communications from Simon Horup.
I think that Simon Horup has effectively “killed” NewsLeecher all by himself (and maybe that is what he really wanted to do?), there are many “cracks” now, and it will be only a matter of time before someone reverse engineers the code (like PowerPost) and releases a similar product.
I too emailed Crystal Art Software yesterday and have yet to receive a reply, nor is there any “comment” from him on that regarding the outage of NewsLeecher, (where there should have been one since day one of this outage).
Simon Horup, has to come clean on this, and have professional people take over marketing, and support of NewsLeecher, or sell the “rights” to NewsLeecher off.
Tim
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