fishit wrote:hhf wrote:There must be a party that can do it better. pBase used to be great but at the moment it's only a shadow of itself. I guess it's founders are bored with it and not in the least interested in letting it work properly anymore. It's a shame.
Opinions, everyone has one, just like everyone got a bleep hole.
The site seems to be working fine for me, no one forces people to stay.
Hmmm... there's a metaphor there somewhere. Perhaps a stack of them.
The high seas. A passenger ship, once shiny, new and state of the art, now showing her age. Scorch marks still surround a patch on the side of the hull showing where a boiler blew up last September.
A passenger races up to the bridge.
"Captain Slug, Captain Slug! Why is the hot water system (metaphor for StatCounter and Google Analytics) only delivering about 25% of the hot water that it's supposed to? It was working flawlessly and now all of a sudden... it only works sometimes! Are there any maintenance crews working on this?"
Captain Slug stares silently out to sea, saying nothing.
"The ship is still sailing! Love it or leave it! Love it or leave it!" cries a small but loyal group of other passengers.
Another passenger runs to the bridge.
"Captain Slug, Captain Slug! The doors on the ovens in the galley (metaphor for the Geotagging system) randomly fall off! Is anyone from maintenance looking at this?"
Captain Slug stares silently out to sea, saying nothing.
"The ship is still sailing! Love it or leave it! Love it or leave it!" cries a slightly smaller but still loyal group of other passengers.
Another passenger runs to the bridge.
"Captain Slug, Captain Slug, the revolution counters on the engine (metaphor for the stats system) are all over the place! They're giving numbers that make no sense!"
Captain Slug stares silently out to sea, saying nothing.
"The ship is still sailing! Love it or leave it! Love it or leave it!" cries a still smaller but still loyal group of other passengers, perhaps with a little less gusto than before with a few exceptions.
Yet another passenger runs to the bridge.
"Captain Slug, Captain Slug, the rope that holds up the semaphore flags (metaphor for the incorrect EXIF data) has snapped!"
Captain Slug stares silently out to sea, saying nothing. The ghost of long-departed second officer NoOutlet can be heard to whisper "arr, it be fixed on the development ship, it be fixed on the development ship, long before I went to Davy Jones' locker, arrrr..."
"The ship is still sailing! Love it or leave it! Love it or leave it!" cries a still diminishing group of other passengers.
A group of passengers run to the bridge.
"Captain Slug, Captain Slug! Why is there so much spam on the menu in the Cafe d'Forum? Where are the bedsheets phase 2 that you promised us for our cabins? Where is the ratings system that you were working on 4 years ago? (OK, I ran out of metaphors here.) Why isn't the camera that was released 6 months ago and which we e-mailed about repeatedly in that time in the ship's database yet? Where is the API?"
Captain Slug stares silently out to sea, saying nothing.
"The ship is still sailing! Love it or leave it! Love it or leave it!" cry fewer and fewer passengers who turn a blind eye to the rust, the increasing number of breakdowns, the lack of refurbishment and the crew apathy, as long as the ship hasn't actually gone under yet. In the meantime once-ardent supporters attach lifelines to the nearby SS SmugMug and the RMS Zenfolio. Some swing across onto those other vessels, abandoning the Good Ship PBase forever, others stay for now at least, but make sure that they have an exit strategy.