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Can someone compare this to Sendy ?

by t3ra 11y ago

kyriakos 11y ago
Free vs Commercial NodeJS vs PHP (boils down on your infrastructure)
- diegorbaquero 11y ago
  What do you mean by "boils down on your infrastructure"? Is that for both too?
  - Mahn 11y ago
    I assume he meant "Boils down to your [choice of] infrastructure", as in, none of the two is inherently better than the other, and your choice would depend entirely on what you prefer to use.
diegorbaquero 11y ago
Had the same question in my mind.
shocks 11y ago
I don't mean to slam the developers, but I use Sendy and have taken a peek under the hood. The code made me feel sick. Functionality wise, it seems the same. ninja edit: it made me sick because it was ugly, didn't feel secure, and it took me ages to make the changes I needed to make.
- _asciiker_ 11y ago
  We've also been using Sendy and I agree, the code is far from perfect and we have spent countless hours either fixing some issues or adding much needed features, making it actually usable for SaaS (sentopia.net), will need to move away to something better in the near future, this maybe a good start!
- nowprovision 11y ago
  Probably the worst code I've ever seen, copy and paste gone crazy, buggy as hell in tracking where it is up to, just nasty and I really wanted to like it. Refund was no problem though.
- nowprovision 11y ago
  Probably the worst code I've ever seen, copy and paste gone crazy, buggy as hell in tracking where it is up to, just nasty and I really wanted to like it. Refund was no problem though.
fowkswe 11y ago
I can't compare, but I can comment on Sendy. I use it to send about to a list of about 5k. It has never sent to completion on its own, it always requires me to monitor the queue so I can hit the 'retry' button once it times out which usually happens after about 100-150 emails have been sent. I've actually scripted this action - so now when I send, I hit the send button as well as fire off a shell script that spoofs the 'refresh' request. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the campaign. I'll echo the other complaints about the quality of the code - it seems to suffer from a copy / paste syndrome as the database connection logic is repeated in every file, but it could also be that the author has obfuscated it as well. It does do a phone home and some other stuff via some base 64 encoded code. I've unwound it in an attempt to fix another issue I thought it was causing (it wasn't). Here it is if you are curious: https://gist.github.com/fowkswe/20a7c4c03835de183ff68fe5ab1adc2c https://gist.github.com/fowkswe/20a7c4c03835de183ff68fe5ab1a... I'll give Sendy credit for getting me this far, though I would like to replace it someday with something I feel I have more control over. Not sure the OP or the other suggestions listed here offer exactly what I'm looking for.

Can someone compare this to Sendy ?

by t3ra 11y ago

Can someone compare this to Sendy ?

kyriakos 11y ago

Free vs Commercial NodeJS vs PHP (boils down on your infrastructure)

diegorbaquero 11y ago
What do you mean by "boils down on your infrastructure"? Is that for both too?
- Mahn 11y ago
  I assume he meant "Boils down to your [choice of] infrastructure", as in, none of the two is inherently better than the other, and your choice would depend entirely on what you prefer to use.

diegorbaquero 11y ago

Had the same question in my mind.

shocks 11y ago

I don't mean to slam the developers, but I use Sendy and have taken a peek under the hood. The code made me feel sick. Functionality wise, it seems the same. ninja edit: it made me sick because it was ugly, didn't feel secure, and it took me ages to make the changes I needed to make.

_asciiker_ 11y ago
We've also been using Sendy and I agree, the code is far from perfect and we have spent countless hours either fixing some issues or adding much needed features, making it actually usable for SaaS (sentopia.net), will need to move away to something better in the near future, this maybe a good start!
nowprovision 11y ago
Probably the worst code I've ever seen, copy and paste gone crazy, buggy as hell in tracking where it is up to, just nasty and I really wanted to like it. Refund was no problem though.
nowprovision 11y ago
Probably the worst code I've ever seen, copy and paste gone crazy, buggy as hell in tracking where it is up to, just nasty and I really wanted to like it. Refund was no problem though.

fowkswe 11y ago

I can't compare, but I can comment on Sendy. I use it to send about to a list of about 5k. It has never sent to completion on its own, it always requires me to monitor the queue so I can hit the 'retry' button once it times out which usually happens after about 100-150 emails have been sent. I've actually scripted this action - so now when I send, I hit the send button as well as fire off a shell script that spoofs the 'refresh' request. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the campaign. I'll echo the other complaints about the quality of the code - it seems to suffer from a copy / paste syndrome as the database connection logic is repeated in every file, but it could also be that the author has obfuscated it as well. It does do a phone home and some other stuff via some base 64 encoded code. I've unwound it in an attempt to fix another issue I thought it was causing (it wasn't). Here it is if you are curious: https://gist.github.com/fowkswe/20a7c4c03835de183ff68fe5ab1adc2c https://gist.github.com/fowkswe/20a7c4c03835de183ff68fe5ab1a... I'll give Sendy credit for getting me this far, though I would like to replace it someday with something I feel I have more control over. Not sure the OP or the other suggestions listed here offer exactly what I'm looking for.