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Josh, why would you wish that - is my site that bad? Cheers, Ralf

JoshCole 16y ago
Yikes! I was so not expecting this. Your site isn't that bad, but every time I log on I find it to be a little lacking in polish. I guess I'll share my experience with your service so as to not leave a wrong impression. A few months back my uncle came over from another state. While he was here, I wrote a chat bot that could have games loaded into it. When I finished coding up the bot I began making game files for it. The games are basically lists of questions and answers that the bot uses to generate Q&A games. When my uncle told me that people actually liked the games I decided I would start selling them. Selling bots or files for bots might sound a little silly to a tech audience, but it isn't. The chat platform on which the bot ran was fairly niche. It isn't like IRC where thousands of open source projects make proprietary bots a little ridiculous. That said, I wasn't expecting to make much money so file selling services which charged a monthly-fee were non-starters. So I started searching for a site that offered the sort of service I was looking for. At first I didn't find anything that met my need. However, most of the sites I did find had gorgeous designs. I realize this is a bit unfair, but those sites shaped my idea of what a quality file-selling service looked like. When I finally found your site I was taken aback by its design (though this seems to be improving). I think I also fell into a reverse halo effect in which I assumed other bad traits because the site didn't meet my visual expectations.
- pontifex 16y ago
  hi josh, I understand and you are not the first to find our design bad! the whole site is template based and we did some things in the very beginning, we regret today. but the message reached us from different sites of the web and we will try to solve that issue during the next weeks ... it is just a question of skill, less of will :->
- pontifex 16y ago
  from different SIDES not sites... sorry

Yikes! I was so not expecting this. Your site isn't that bad, but every time I log on I find it to be a little lacking in polish. I guess I'll share my experience with your service so as to not leave a wrong impression. A few months back my uncle came over from another state. While he was here, I wrote a chat bot that could have games loaded into it. When I finished coding up the bot I began making game files for it. The games are basically lists of questions and answers that the bot uses to generate Q&A games. When my uncle told me that people actually liked the games I decided I would start selling them. Selling bots or files for bots might sound a little silly to a tech audience, but it isn't. The chat platform on which the bot ran was fairly niche. It isn't like IRC where thousands of open source projects make proprietary bots a little ridiculous. That said, I wasn't expecting to make much money so file selling services which charged a monthly-fee were non-starters. So I started searching for a site that offered the sort of service I was looking for. At first I didn't find anything that met my need. However, most of the sites I did find had gorgeous designs. I realize this is a bit unfair, but those sites shaped my idea of what a quality file-selling service looked like. When I finally found your site I was taken aback by its design (though this seems to be improving). I think I also fell into a reverse halo effect in which I assumed other bad traits because the site didn't meet my visual expectations.

pontifex 16y ago
hi josh, I understand and you are not the first to find our design bad! the whole site is template based and we did some things in the very beginning, we regret today. but the message reached us from different sites of the web and we will try to solve that issue during the next weeks ... it is just a question of skill, less of will :->
pontifex 16y ago
from different SIDES not sites... sorry