Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 07, 2025, 06:34 PMThen I found out the people now behind SMF are a closed shop of total and complete assholes.  They are only letting mods happen at defined breakpoints, be that appropriate or not.  Fuck that. 

Have you ever met a group of folks you didn't think were complete assholes? You seem to be enraged quite a bit at...everyone...except for the teachings of what you've deduced as proper communist behavior....except for the part where you don't like where that shit show arrived in the form of Stalin and Mao and whatnot. 

Quote from: K-DogOur version is the most stable version, and there are no new plans to create a new release on the existing code base.  The SMF mofos are going object-oriented.  The upshot is from here on out the Diner rolls it's own.

Single point of failure internet stuff, always a good decision for longevity, but to be honest, was it ever going to end any other way?

A labor of love indeed, a requirement for something to survive far longer than it normally might. And having begun the disposal of my parents property and collectibles and their "labor of love" spanning some 80+ years, as tenuous as anything can be even when it is family involved in the final disposition.

I presume Mrs. K-Dog is hardly interested in keeping obsolete software functioning post Mr. K-Dog? Or is it in the will, a donation to pay other folk to keep obsolete software running for the 4 other geriatrics who hang out at the club?

Quote from: K-DogWe have the right to do anything we wish with our version and future modifications will be as custom as I desire.  As long as a backup exists everything is fine.  (not to be confused with a database backup).

An interesting distinction. As long as a backup exists...but don't confuse that with a database backup?

I certainly would make that mistake...how is a backup a backup....but the owner decides it sure doesn't need the database as well? My database backups are....backups. Lock, stock and barrel. Code, forms, instructions, documentation, tables, data, etc etc.

Are you implying that the code backup, of that which currently works, is a different backup than the data itself, rather than one big complete package?