I can’t say that I’m having the best of luck with SweetCron. There are problems abroad. If you go to my personal site, you’ll see that I have a decent skin (one that looks like my Soup.io page), but I’m completely screwed when it comes to the php. In short, I don’t know what I don’t know.
I have two problems with SweetCron so far. First, it doesn’t support most of the site feeds that I want to include. Yeah, it has the standard Twitter and YouTube support, but not much else. It doesn’t support my Tumblr feed. Hell, it doesn’t even support Delicious! What the hell?!
Second, I have to go in and manually edit php code to add Delicious, Tumblr, etc. support. Though I wanted to learn a bit of code while working with SweetCron, my code didn’t do ANYTHING different. I still have a plain old ugly box with “SweetCron doesnt’ recognize this feed” blah blah blah. Why not? Soup.io does.
I’m begining to think that the word “beta” is a cop-out for errors in code or software that is lacking somewhat. “Oh, it’s ok that we have errors — we’re in beta” seems to be the mantra these days. I think softwares stays in beta for as long as it can because it is safer and they can avoid criticism.
Ugh. I didn’t mean for that to be a tirade. I’m just really frustrated right now. I’m also on the look out for another open source lifestream. Any out there?
