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1/30/2009 12:00 AM
 
Tony Henrich


Joined: 12/15/2008
Posts: 838

Leazon wrote

 Salama wrote

Just this week I posted about the lack of more contributions from the DNN community. There are tons of commercial skins. You can wade through pages and pages of skin listings at snowcovered. Yet DNN comes with just two crude skins. Why aren't some commercial skin vendors giving some quality free skins to be packaged with DNN? That's free advertising for them.

 

I would submit that this is not the fault of the commercial skin vendors. It is the fault of DNN - after you have been in the DNN "community" for awhile you learn that while DNN is an excellent open source project that you will really like - it is a closed community. Want an example?  DNN comes with a core module called Surveys - do you see it in use anywhere on DNN.com?  Have you EVER seen it in use on DNN.com?  Oh, but we can dream - here are a couple of survey's I'd love to see on DNN.com:

  1. Should we have skin contests (like we used to do) with the winner being included in the core?
  2. Should DNN.com change to a forums module that actually works?
  3. Should DNN.com change the way forums are moderated?
  4. Should DNN.com add X forum folders?

Can you add to the list??? 

Greg

Maybe there was no opportunity to use the survey module? what's your idea? The forums module seems to work fine except for the email notifications. However I never read an explanation of why they don't work.

Why do you say the forums module doesn't work?
 
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1/30/2009 2:04 AM
 
Greg Brown


Joined: 6/14/2006
Posts: 669

The point of my post was to point out that the lack of skin contributions wasn't all the fault of the skin developers and my opinion of why.

The other items on the list have all been mentioned in the forums numerous times over the last 2 or 3 years by numerous different users. Rehashing them isn't going to change anything so I won't go into them any further. I really like DNN and appreciate the hard work the volunteer project members put into it.  Since I do enjoy using the product so much I've learned that when I see yet another new thread about moderation, email notifications, "Why isn't there a forum for...", etc. to just chuckle, wish them luck, and skip it.  I just kinda slipped with my post in this thread. Sometimes it's hard to stay quiet. But I've been good for 6 or 8 months now - maybe I was just due. (grin)

Greg
 
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1/30/2009 3:03 AM
 
OldTurtle Dev Labs

Joined: 9/16/2007
Posts: 55

Timo Breumelhof wrote

"Should we have skin contests (like we used to do) with the winner being included in the core?"

We will, as announced at open force US, but I don't think the winner will be included in the release but it will be available for download.



I think the contests for skins is a great idea. But I do not understand why the winner skins shouldn't be included. What would be the problem if the user can choose from, say, 15 different looks & feels, that comes out of the box? I think it would be great if users could choose the skin just in the installation process (just like it is now) maybe with some preview images/thumbs.

Just my two cents.
 
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1/30/2009 9:47 AM
 
Jeff Cochran


Joined: 6/3/2005
Posts: 2799

OldTurtle Dev Labs wrote
 

I think the contests for skins is a great idea. But I do not understand why the winner skins shouldn't be included.

If they are included then they only get updated when the coire does, they become another thing for the core team to develop and track and you're going to be limited to whatever they worked on two years agoo and have mainteained.  Posted for download in a gallery is quicker, easier and cheaper for the core team in terms of support mand maintenance.

Jeff
 
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1/30/2009 9:50 AM
 
Jeff Cochran


Joined: 6/3/2005
Posts: 2799

How about a "Community Skin Gallery" on the DNN site?  Community contributed skins with a rating/comment system.  Skins with a poor community rating after 90 days get deleted.

Jeff
 
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