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?
Hmm, I just wrote a very long response to this, but it didn’t go through. Bah.
In a nutshell - what you want is out there, you just need to look in the right places for it. Ranting on your blog isn’t going to get you very far.
Come and join the support forum - there are plugins for tumblr and delicious.
But bear in mind - it’s open source totally free software, you *should expect* to have to get down with some coding. Nothing is going to work right out of the box like magic, at least not exactly like you expect it to
Also in my original post I made the point that what you are calling “errors” are not errors - and it’s a pretty nasty thing to say that Sweetcron is hiding behind a “beta” label.
The fact that Sweetcron doesn’t have styles built-in to support all the feeds under the sun is not an “error”, it’s meant to be like that.
Sweetcron provides the platform for you to do your own styles and create your own themes using the Sweetcron API. Think of it like that. If you’re not comfortable editing php, css and html then you need to wait for a “super theme” to come out that supports like a hundred different feeds with distinct styles for each one.
But when I read posts like this of people complaining about free software it pretty much kills any passion I might otherwise have for providing free themes to people. Sorry. Not blaming you but posts like this certainly don’t help with open source project motivation - if you genuinely want to make a difference you can get involved with the community instead of saying nasty stuff on your blog.
gah see nothing is perfect - your Wordpress install thinks that was an anonymous posts. it’s still me, yongfook. Sweetcron developer.
1. That’s Spam Karma working. If you post multiple times over the course of a few minutes, it marks your comments as spam. Please post just once (not twice, not three times) and your comment will go through just fine. I thought about switching to a captcha, but it works the way it is supposed to.
2. Ranting on my blog is a way of communicating with others and voicing my frustration. Apparently, it did get me pretty far. You commented, didn’t you? Nothing I said was nasty, everything I said was true and if anything out of frustration. You would have noticed that had you read my last paragraph stating that I was frustrated. (I have my own personal, twenty-four hour support system thank you very much.)
3. Beta IS indeed a label and I stand by my belief that it is a cop out to hide behind imperfections.
4. In response to your comment on the previous entry, yes — I learned that when I got the software installed.
Edit: Also, if you can’t take criticism of your software, then you don’t need to be providing the software. Criticism is a part of life and if you cannot take it, then I don’t think you’re in the right place.