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Rank: YAF Head Dude
Joined: 10/10/2004
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I got an e-mail from GoDaddy.com Hosting and their business development division: Quote:[snip]...The reason I'm writing to you today is to let you know we have built a community site for our shared hosting customers and would like to add YetAnotherForum to the list of software our customers can install for free.
YetAnotherForum has been recommended by several of our existing customers. By adding YetAnotherForum to the menu choices of software available, YetAnotherForum will have exposure to hundreds of thousands of potential new users.
Please let me know if you have any concerns.
I told him no problem. Obviously, this is excellent exposure as GoDaddy.com is a large hosting company! Just thought I'd share.  "Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." -- George Carlin 
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Rank: YAF Developer
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Posts: 1,077
Location: Heart of Europe
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Nice, now to make those new "customers" happy  When I post FP:Ederon in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting.
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Rank: YAF MVP
Joined: 11/26/2004
Posts: 500
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
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I see a new bullet with our name on next to it on next version of Xrunner  Just kidding.  I think it's great news!:d ... But trust me on the sunscreen!
test2005 wrote:There not bugs(in YAF)...it's either un-defined features or exceptions to expected behavior!!
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Rank: YAF MVP
Joined: 3/10/2006
Posts: 330
Location: Dallas, TX
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Neven wrote:I see a new bullet with our name on next to it on next version of Xrunner Just kidding. I think it's great news!:d rofmlao Great news, guys - congrats to all I feel validated in a funny sort of way. Our hard work gets to make GoDaddy even more money Check out my implementation of YAF: http://Forums.LearnSqlServer.com/. You can also check out my SQL Server 2005 tutorials at http://www.LearnSqlServer.com/ and my C# tutorials at http://www.LearnCSharp.com/
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Rank: YAF Developer
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bigtoga wrote:Great news, guys - congrats to all I feel validated in a funny sort of way. Our hard work gets to make GoDaddy even more money I suppose it's time to buy few shares of GoDaddy When I post FP:Ederon in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting.
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Joined: 9/6/2007
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Knowing how that made you happy makes me even happier for you. Congratulations on this achievement that such big company chosen your product even though it is for free.
Frankly I don't know how you can do all this for free. Do really people contribute money to you to keep you going? I'm about to release a tool myself soon. For its support forum I have chosen YAF too to say in .net as I don't have the time to develop it myself. You are actually on my especial list of customers who would receive a free license or more if you required.
If I knew people/companies would contribute money I'd be more than happy to release my tool as "Free To Use" but not open-source.
Does anyone know if such model would work to live off the project at least for awhile and do you have a good example of such project? I've been developing my projects without any income for nearly 2.5 years so my projects is my life line really.
Do the contributors of this project have a fulltime job and only work partime on YAF?
Thank you
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Rank: YAF MVP
Joined: 3/10/2006
Posts: 330
Location: Dallas, TX
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CSharpHeaven wrote:Do the contributors of this project have a fulltime job and only work partime on YAF? Yes. Check out my implementation of YAF: http://Forums.LearnSqlServer.com/. You can also check out my SQL Server 2005 tutorials at http://www.LearnSqlServer.com/ and my C# tutorials at http://www.LearnCSharp.com/
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bigtoga wrote:CSharpHeaven wrote:Do the contributors of this project have a fulltime job and only work partime on YAF? Yes. Thank you for the reply. In the past 7 months my average input on my project has been over 3000 hours of work. In business terms that means if a developer is productive for 5 hours a day (just coding not checking emails and attending meetings) as most are it would take a developer 600 days to get to where I am with my project. This is the reason I never would go through the open-source path.
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Rank: YAF Developer
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CSharpHeaven wrote:bigtoga wrote:CSharpHeaven wrote:Do the contributors of this project have a fulltime job and only work partime on YAF? Yes. Thank you for the reply. In the past 7 months my average input on my project has been over 3000 hours of work. In business terms that means if a developer is productive for 5 hours a day (just coding not checking emails and attending meetings) as most are it would take a developer 600 days to get to where I am with my project. This is the reason I never would go through the open-source path. So basically every single day you work 14 hours on your project, right? When I post FP:Ederon in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting.
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Ederon wrote:CSharpHeaven wrote:bigtoga wrote:CSharpHeaven wrote:Do the contributors of this project have a fulltime job and only work partime on YAF? Yes. Thank you for the reply. In the past 7 months my average input on my project has been over 3000 hours of work. In business terms that means if a developer is productive for 5 hours a day (just coding not checking emails and attending meetings) as most are it would take a developer 600 days to get to where I am with my project. This is the reason I never would go through the open-source path. So basically every single day you work 14 hours on your project, right? Ederon, My hours has been reduced from 18 hours to 14 hours now that its been for 2.5 years non-stop. I've been coding for about 17 years. Now I'm trying to go solo and develop development solutions that I enjoy doing.
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Rank: YAF Developer
Joined: 1/8/2007
Posts: 1,077
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CSharpHeaven wrote:Ederon, My hours has been reduced from 18 hours to 14 hours now that its been for 2.5 years non-stop. I've been coding for about 17 years. Now I'm trying to go solo and develop development solutions that I enjoy doing. When do you live man? Must be exhausting to work 14 hours every single day, not talking about 18. You must have some secret source of power. Come on, share it. (it'd help me solve my problems, maybe) When I post FP:Ederon in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting.
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Rank: YAF Forumling
Joined: 9/17/2007
Posts: 2
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I have lost the free hosting server I was using and am looking for a new host for my forums: sdbforums.org and yasdb.org. Is GoDaddy.com the answer?
It seems a little odd to me that they only seem to offer MySQL databases and YAF runs on MS SQL.
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Rank: YAF Developer
Joined: 1/8/2007
Posts: 1,077
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dustymack wrote:It seems a little odd to me that they only seem to offer MySQL databases and YAF runs on MS SQL. They offer MySQL as well as MSSQL. Just look at their Windows-hostings. When I post FP:Ederon in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting.
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Rank: YAF Forumling
Joined: 9/17/2007
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Thank you. I thought I was looking at the Windows plans; obviously I was not. It is rather disappointing that they limit the number of databases you can host so far below the file space but it still should suffice.
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Rank: YAF Forumling
Joined: 7/21/2005
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Congrats. It's been months since I have seen YAF and it looks like you have done a lot of good work. -Something clever or funny
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