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Always fun to copy paste threads that are bound to be deleted. When they are here they stay forever!!! So people might find this horror before spending money on a dead product. Read on future subhell owners... read on and turn around go gogo while you still can :)
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All that is the work of one very angry old Subdreamer customer who wasn't given everything he wanted. Our company is no longer located in Florida, I moved away from there over 2 years ago.
Nothing to get worried over, just one upset customer trying to cause as much trouble as he can. We're still alive and kicking, working very hard to release new software including Subdreamer CMS 3. I know there has been a big silence from us, but I'll just take this little time to assure everyone that some incredible new software is coming out this year by us. When I get more time I'll start posting information in a new blog.
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Ziad, thanks for reassuring us that sub dreamer is still alive and well
I for one like the software. and will be around for another year. however.. you must see the mood around the software isnt what it was when I purchased it just over a year ago. the whole thing has slowed down to a point where people have posted wondering if the project was dead. others begging for plug-in updates.. template updates... perhaps some kind of progress update in the forums both here.. and the main subdreamer site to give a estimated date of the next release..if not some updates to the more popular plug-ins or templates... as the forums are where alot of potential customers go to read what others are saying about the software before they buy... I see the signs of some unhappy people.. and that cant remain profitable. Just some of my observations..
I hope things pick up and Sub Dreamer continues for many years to come.
Looking forward to SD 3.0
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Ziad, as a customer it has been very difficult this past year and a half waiting on promises from your company, especially when 'live avatars' got updated recently.
It almost seems like there is no focus or a lack of commitment towards SubDreamer customers. It is even more difficult to hold loyalty when I have recommended your product to various clients and then have had to find ways around SubDreamers short comings from your promised new versions to plugin creations or updates.
Often I find myself implementing new ways of fulfilling my client’s needs because of this lack of progress from promises, which has increased both my programming and html skills, so I guess I could in a round about way thank you for that. However this is not the reason I purchased or recommended SubDreamer, I did so because of its ease of use, which seems by comparison to other CMS’s, very dated now.
I have to say I understand this guy's 'whinnyness', but I have also been an out spoken member here and on .com for improvements, where many have agreed, so from this perspective I know what he is complaining about. It is very difficult at times only to hear from one person, Brent, who was at time very gruff with his responses or even non responsive, but I am happy to say has improved immensely. So Thank you Brent.
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It is even more disappointing that there are no new articles on techniques on how use SubDreamer on either .com or .org, which would be at least a step to produce customer retention. This simple little task by either contribution or by staff to demonstrate creative ways to use SubDreamer would go a long way for customer retention and building a new customer base.
A core team of experienced members I am sure would step up to the plate to build a GOOD FAQ plugin that could be used on .com and/or .org site for the simple trade off of an extra year on their license.
During this past year I have sought out several talented plugin creators to ask why they have left the SubDreamer community and gone on to other CMS’s, and it deals with simple customer service and lack of update issues.
Marketing
Why is SubDreamer still not on CMS Matrix?
Why do you not have an affiliate program?
Simple ideas to generate income to further get quality programmers or staff. It is hard to watch this great CMS loose talented community members because the application itself is not progressing at regular intervals at least something new once a quarter other than another skin with generic layouts.
I hope you understand this was not a way of bashing you or SubDreamer, but an honest review of what goes on in some of your customers minds….it takes so little to step up to retain a customer, but so much more to convert a customer back.
I eagerly await SD3.0 and would be happy to continue to give an honest feed back as a beta tester if you would have me.
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After reading William's post, I must say between him and LWS you've simply taken the words right from my mouth almost. I feel the same way.
Personally I love Subdreamer, and like developing for it, but as many as stated, it just seems to feel as a dying project, which as of late, you've increased my hope by being around again, Ziad. My company has created 30 plugins, some very simple ones and a number of skins!! But I would consider my company/me a very big supporter and one of the few companies that are left. Of the companies/business's I'm aware and there status:
SDSkins2go - alive
Business Plugins - alive
OHare Portal - alive, but undergoing a restructure (my company)
SDDepot - Dead
Brilliant Web Solutions (something like that) - Dead (sold off product to SDDepot)
Subdreamer Mods (also known as another name but can't remember - Dead
I'm really looking forward to Subdreamer 3.0 (eta 1st half of this year, so a june release). I've looked at other products and can't find anything that compares in a lot of ways, simplicity of use wise, and actual content control, most other CMS's seem more like glorified Blogs then an actual CMS, in my opinion.
I'm starting to do a lot of reselling with Subdreamer, which is bringing more clients through me, but I still have a deep concern as William has stated with the lack of progress.... (not saying there isn't progress, just hardly evident).
So I hope this year is a big turn around for the company. I have lots of ideas, and would love to help my client base grow, but also indirectly helps Subdreamer grow as I have more clients/licenses.
Anyways thats just some thoughts to add to the conversation...
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What about me? I am still around.
Plugin sales are going great.
SD3 still seems a long way off - 6mths plus would be my estimate.
Just think how much time developers and users will need for changeover from 2.6 -> 3
I know for us at BusinessPlugins.com we would wait a few months for a stable core system before upgrading plugins for sd3
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Woah, yeah my bad, sorry to leave you off the list, had been a really long day for me Thomas!!!
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hehehe...Steven got OWNED LOL j/k
Yes Thomas has done some wonderful work.
But on your statement, Thomas, about moving from 2.6 -> 3, the only thing that has been stated in the new skin system will be vastly different...I would imagine that Ziad would take in to consideration not altering the plugin side much. I mean it seems to work very well comparably to other CMS's, so it kinda brings up the point of if it isn't broken, don't tinker with it.
But on the other hand I could see lots of improvements to plugin logic, but as you made mention it would take some effort to convert the plugins to a new logic style. I for one would just like to see all plugins out there currently updated to function properly with even 2.6. I know it's not a SubDreamer issue as many are user submitted, however with the growing popularity of plugins for other CMS's it would behove SD to rethink to relauch 3.0 very strongly with all updated plugins.
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As a non-programmer and simple webmaster using SubDreamer I have to agree with the above as well. I have purchased paid plugins and have had several custom plugins written for pay - so I have a serious financial investment in SubDreamer. When I first went that path years ago it had issues - but was very cool and promising. It's core technology hasn't really changed while all the other CMS's have come light years since then. It is a painful and expensive process to move to another solution - but the utter silence from SubDreamer has forced me to being migration to vBadvanced Dynamics, a full database driven CMS frontend for vBulletin (which is what I used SD for) that can use the 1,000+ plugins from CMPS.
Don't get me wrong, the SD attraction was the simple, clean look and feel. vBa products extend vBulletin and carry with them the more complicated look and feel. Due to the nature of my site I have mostly non-technical members that are very computer challenged and just want the cleanest look. Due to my existing investments to integrate things like PhotoPost, PhotoReviews, FlashChat and about a dozen other things I would love to see nothing more than a revival of SD. Obviously AJAX and other Web 2.0 tech's need to be mainstream and security needs to...well...start existing.
Please take this as constructive...I am not slamming SD. Security is a major issue. Now, SD as a standalone product with no plugins other than default, the default skin and no integrations with anything else and it is OK security wise. (Still been hacked - apache and SNORT logs sent to support team a long time ago...). The problem is that SD is so lacking in updated features that any serious web site must rely on additional skins, plugins, third party application integration, etc. There is sometimes no good way to accomplish these things. The FlashChat integration posted on SD's .org site for example, led to a site hack. If SD is to survive then it needs to expand the avaialble functionality and standardize on a way to integrate to avoid such issues. There also needs to be significant improvements in security. Protected directories are a start, but I would love to see at least plugins that did configurable geo-location filtering, brute force attempt intruder lockout, in-site backup/restore of site and databases, MD5 hashing with email alerting of particular directories, etc. These are things that other CMS products have greatly increase security that CMS has never even mentioned.
Again, I wish you guy(s) the best, but I have my doubts. For example, the site was recently down and AFTERWARDS we were told it was a server move gone bad. Well, as a 20 year I.T. pro, servers rarely get moved without some notification to users - especially ones that are paying for your software. I find it either hard to believe or unprofessional (you choose) that this is what happened. It is more likely that the site was hacked and this was the cover story. Again, with more open communications from the dev team maybe this would have been a non issue?
I hope SD 3 is released soon and blows us all away with it's greatness and I can safely feel warm and fuzzy about using it. That would make me happy. :-) Until then...Plan B has got to move forward since there is nothing new int eh downloads section here and status quo will simply not work.
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Not knowing eats me the most, is it on or is it off ...
A few comments every now and then or a simple progress bar to tell how far the work has gone would be nice.
I wont denie am allways looking out for new CMS's but I have a few SD licenses and I like the SD product verry much.
We might not need Subdreamer 3 ASAP but a small update to Sd2.6 wich is allready verry stable and only needs some minor fixing, would give us somthing to work with and be a good injection for the community.
I upgraded my SD last desmeber just to show my support and to give some money to the project.
I think more users should do the same. We will be rewarded in the end with a good ongoing community and product.
I wont give up easyle on Subdreamer and I will stick with it at least throug out this year.
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Writing the above post led to a conversation with a couple friends of mine - both active webmasters over a combined 15 or so sites. They are not SD fans and brought up a good point that the SD dev team should consider...
To build a small personal web site with a few pages and not much content takes less than an afternoon. Someone that wants to get fancy with this type of site may buy SD. It is easy to build a site with - easy to walk away and start over if SD goes away.
People building sites with the intention of 500+ registered members and integration to a forum package and other applications have a totally different set of concerns. These people are willing to give up features and functions if they know two things: (1) The site is secure, and (2) The products used are actively being developed and keeping pace with technology.
SubDreamer is in a tough place. For the personal site it is expensive given the many free, well supported alternatives like Joomla. For the larger sites, given the long periods of silence, there is just no way to justify starting a site today with SD. Most of the remaining customers are ones that have a vested interest - like me - in an existing site with custom coding.
I do not know the personal situation of the owners of SD. I strongly suspect that SD does not pay the bills. Could it though? Through advertising, getting the word out, releasing updates more frequently and generating sales..? Bring back the warm and fuzzy feeling that you love us...please?
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I run a website using SD mostly as a nice looking shell/frontpage with almost all my content based on my vBulletin-forum. So far I've been happy with SD, but the lack of visible improvement/development is beginning to get at me.
I've noticed that the coming vBulletin 4.0. will move more in the direction af an actual CMS-system, which of cause will make me consider my future on the SD-platform, unless something positive will happen. The lack of information on a regular basis is unsettling.
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My license expired and I didn't get any major software updates during the whole year. I won't update my license until the SD3 come out.
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Thats a Good Idea.......ditto!
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That's what I'll do, too! The lack of information about the future of SD is killing me. I allready thought about changing the CMS ...
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Elvis,
Im already past the thinking stage
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How's your Drupal-powered website coming along?
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Amazing.
Should have started there , instead of ending up there, if you know what I mean
I still have a few running Subdreamer, but they will suffer the same fate im afraid.
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Amazing.
Should have started there , instead of ending up there, if you know what I mean
I still have a few running Subdreamer, but they will suffer the same fate im afraid.
I am switching most of my websites to Wordpress instead.
I don't know about you but I'm kind of tired for paying for custom-built plugins.
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I've looked at other CMS's and solutions, but didn't come up with any in my opinion, to many of them were basically blogs with more features, and I wouldn't really call that a cms. Where as subdreamer you have full control.
Things like wordpress, drupal and many others are all pretty much article management with lots of extras to give it more abilities, but in the end I didn't find it to be a actual CMS, like subdreamer is....
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If I had several businesses dependent on the CMS, I would say the exact same thing too.
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If I had several businesses dependent on the CMS, I would say the exact same thing too.
signalzero did it for the LULz!
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I actually only have 1 sector of my comapny that relies on it. So its not several, and no I was being honest.
Wordpress, Drupal and many others, don't give you content control that you have in subdreamer. Such as choosing where the content goes on every page. Most of them felt like Article Management/blogs with a lot of added features. I've tried many. Also that is not the case with all of them though, but on a usability standpoint (ease of use), subdreamer is far superior. Like Joomla I would not consider in the Article Management/blogs, whereas its more a true CMS, like subdreamer. Expect its a pain to use in comparison. And don't give me that excuse just because I have vested interest. I do and thats not a lie. But at least with the dozen or so CMS, I didn't find many that were what I would call a CMS (as I've stated before). Most of my business is through hosting, and I do love subdreamer.
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I have to agree with steven. I have looked at others in a full comparision and I keep coming back to SD. But I have spent alot of time creating extra plugins and mods to be better than the other CMS's
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You have your opinion and it wasn't an excuse.
I have a site up on another CMS, and have been playing with it for some time now. I think having 5 subdreamer sites give me the advantage of knowing what it can and can not do.
I will say in no way can it compare to what Drupal can do. CCK ( Content Creation Kit ) and Taxonomy is a very very power combination and does way more. Until you use it and understand it, just comparing it doesn't do it justice.
Ease of use , Subdreamer is by far easier to use, I wont argue that. At a certain point, you need to get under the hood and see what power it has and what it can do. I certainly can do more, with alot less hacking and tweaking than I ever could do in SD. I also have had some HUGE modules written that can do what SD cant.
We wont even discuss the amount of plugins and bridges available compared to SD.
This isnt a slam against anyone, its a honest , open review. SD has its place , and for me , my subscription has expired, and I see a huge gap in development and a severe lack of open , honest communication from the company.
If I were in your position , I too would be concerned that you are running a business mostly dependent on this CMS. The end user needs a CMS that also grows and matures , and this one is NOT. Mine has had 6 releases this year alone, how many has SD had ?
Don't think I am the lone voice. In this economic climate, people aren't going to pay for things that don't work, or that aren't progressing as they should.
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a 100 years ago the horse was far superior to any other means of transportation.. see what happened to that. CRT was far superior to LCD, see what happened. Big gasoline gusting cars where superior, look what most drive these days.
Result earned in the past do not guarantee the future. You are as good as you last product it is as simple as that.
A product can be as good as it is but if not sustained, supported and maintained then it is like pulling a dead horse,failure imminent.
All i see at this forum and the .com is vanishing posts, vague promises on new releases (started somewhere early 2007 as far as i can track back!!!) and many many many deleted threads, posts with people that never post again, weird. Noticed a Hotscript revue, well hmm not very good at all
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All that is the work of one very angry old Subdreamer customer who wasn't given everything he wanted. Our company is no longer located in Florida, I moved away from there over 2 years ago.
Nothing to get worried over, just one upset customer trying to cause as much trouble as he can. We're still alive and kicking, working very hard to release new software including Subdreamer CMS 3. I know there has been a big silence from us, but I'll just take this little time to assure everyone that some incredible new software is coming out this year by us. When I get more time I'll start posting information in a new blog.
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Ziad, thanks for reassuring us that sub dreamer is still alive and well
I for one like the software. and will be around for another year. however.. you must see the mood around the software isnt what it was when I purchased it just over a year ago. the whole thing has slowed down to a point where people have posted wondering if the project was dead. others begging for plug-in updates.. template updates... perhaps some kind of progress update in the forums both here.. and the main subdreamer site to give a estimated date of the next release..if not some updates to the more popular plug-ins or templates... as the forums are where alot of potential customers go to read what others are saying about the software before they buy... I see the signs of some unhappy people.. and that cant remain profitable. Just some of my observations..
I hope things pick up and Sub Dreamer continues for many years to come.
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Ziad, as a customer it has been very difficult this past year and a half waiting on promises from your company, especially when 'live avatars' got updated recently.
It almost seems like there is no focus or a lack of commitment towards SubDreamer customers. It is even more difficult to hold loyalty when I have recommended your product to various clients and then have had to find ways around SubDreamers short comings from your promised new versions to plugin creations or updates.
Often I find myself implementing new ways of fulfilling my client’s needs because of this lack of progress from promises, which has increased both my programming and html skills, so I guess I could in a round about way thank you for that. However this is not the reason I purchased or recommended SubDreamer, I did so because of its ease of use, which seems by comparison to other CMS’s, very dated now.
I have to say I understand this guy's 'whinnyness', but I have also been an out spoken member here and on .com for improvements, where many have agreed, so from this perspective I know what he is complaining about. It is very difficult at times only to hear from one person, Brent, who was at time very gruff with his responses or even non responsive, but I am happy to say has improved immensely. So Thank you Brent.
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It is even more disappointing that there are no new articles on techniques on how use SubDreamer on either .com or .org, which would be at least a step to produce customer retention. This simple little task by either contribution or by staff to demonstrate creative ways to use SubDreamer would go a long way for customer retention and building a new customer base.
A core team of experienced members I am sure would step up to the plate to build a GOOD FAQ plugin that could be used on .com and/or .org site for the simple trade off of an extra year on their license.
During this past year I have sought out several talented plugin creators to ask why they have left the SubDreamer community and gone on to other CMS’s, and it deals with simple customer service and lack of update issues.
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Why is SubDreamer still not on CMS Matrix?
Why do you not have an affiliate program?
Simple ideas to generate income to further get quality programmers or staff. It is hard to watch this great CMS loose talented community members because the application itself is not progressing at regular intervals at least something new once a quarter other than another skin with generic layouts.
I hope you understand this was not a way of bashing you or SubDreamer, but an honest review of what goes on in some of your customers minds….it takes so little to step up to retain a customer, but so much more to convert a customer back.
I eagerly await SD3.0 and would be happy to continue to give an honest feed back as a beta tester if you would have me.
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After reading William's post, I must say between him and LWS you've simply taken the words right from my mouth almost. I feel the same way.
Personally I love Subdreamer, and like developing for it, but as many as stated, it just seems to feel as a dying project, which as of late, you've increased my hope by being around again, Ziad. My company has created 30 plugins, some very simple ones and a number of skins!! But I would consider my company/me a very big supporter and one of the few companies that are left. Of the companies/business's I'm aware and there status:
SDSkins2go - alive
Business Plugins - alive
OHare Portal - alive, but undergoing a restructure (my company)
SDDepot - Dead
Brilliant Web Solutions (something like that) - Dead (sold off product to SDDepot)
Subdreamer Mods (also known as another name but can't remember - Dead
I'm really looking forward to Subdreamer 3.0 (eta 1st half of this year, so a june release). I've looked at other products and can't find anything that compares in a lot of ways, simplicity of use wise, and actual content control, most other CMS's seem more like glorified Blogs then an actual CMS, in my opinion.
I'm starting to do a lot of reselling with Subdreamer, which is bringing more clients through me, but I still have a deep concern as William has stated with the lack of progress.... (not saying there isn't progress, just hardly evident).
So I hope this year is a big turn around for the company. I have lots of ideas, and would love to help my client base grow, but also indirectly helps Subdreamer grow as I have more clients/licenses.
Anyways thats just some thoughts to add to the conversation...
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What about me? I am still around.
Plugin sales are going great.
SD3 still seems a long way off - 6mths plus would be my estimate.
Just think how much time developers and users will need for changeover from 2.6 -> 3
I know for us at BusinessPlugins.com we would wait a few months for a stable core system before upgrading plugins for sd3
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Woah, yeah my bad, sorry to leave you off the list, had been a really long day for me Thomas!!!
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hehehe...Steven got OWNED LOL j/k
Yes Thomas has done some wonderful work.
But on your statement, Thomas, about moving from 2.6 -> 3, the only thing that has been stated in the new skin system will be vastly different...I would imagine that Ziad would take in to consideration not altering the plugin side much. I mean it seems to work very well comparably to other CMS's, so it kinda brings up the point of if it isn't broken, don't tinker with it.
But on the other hand I could see lots of improvements to plugin logic, but as you made mention it would take some effort to convert the plugins to a new logic style. I for one would just like to see all plugins out there currently updated to function properly with even 2.6. I know it's not a SubDreamer issue as many are user submitted, however with the growing popularity of plugins for other CMS's it would behove SD to rethink to relauch 3.0 very strongly with all updated plugins.
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As a non-programmer and simple webmaster using SubDreamer I have to agree with the above as well. I have purchased paid plugins and have had several custom plugins written for pay - so I have a serious financial investment in SubDreamer. When I first went that path years ago it had issues - but was very cool and promising. It's core technology hasn't really changed while all the other CMS's have come light years since then. It is a painful and expensive process to move to another solution - but the utter silence from SubDreamer has forced me to being migration to vBadvanced Dynamics, a full database driven CMS frontend for vBulletin (which is what I used SD for) that can use the 1,000+ plugins from CMPS.
Don't get me wrong, the SD attraction was the simple, clean look and feel. vBa products extend vBulletin and carry with them the more complicated look and feel. Due to the nature of my site I have mostly non-technical members that are very computer challenged and just want the cleanest look. Due to my existing investments to integrate things like PhotoPost, PhotoReviews, FlashChat and about a dozen other things I would love to see nothing more than a revival of SD. Obviously AJAX and other Web 2.0 tech's need to be mainstream and security needs to...well...start existing.
Please take this as constructive...I am not slamming SD. Security is a major issue. Now, SD as a standalone product with no plugins other than default, the default skin and no integrations with anything else and it is OK security wise. (Still been hacked - apache and SNORT logs sent to support team a long time ago...). The problem is that SD is so lacking in updated features that any serious web site must rely on additional skins, plugins, third party application integration, etc. There is sometimes no good way to accomplish these things. The FlashChat integration posted on SD's .org site for example, led to a site hack. If SD is to survive then it needs to expand the avaialble functionality and standardize on a way to integrate to avoid such issues. There also needs to be significant improvements in security. Protected directories are a start, but I would love to see at least plugins that did configurable geo-location filtering, brute force attempt intruder lockout, in-site backup/restore of site and databases, MD5 hashing with email alerting of particular directories, etc. These are things that other CMS products have greatly increase security that CMS has never even mentioned.
Again, I wish you guy(s) the best, but I have my doubts. For example, the site was recently down and AFTERWARDS we were told it was a server move gone bad. Well, as a 20 year I.T. pro, servers rarely get moved without some notification to users - especially ones that are paying for your software. I find it either hard to believe or unprofessional (you choose) that this is what happened. It is more likely that the site was hacked and this was the cover story. Again, with more open communications from the dev team maybe this would have been a non issue?
I hope SD 3 is released soon and blows us all away with it's greatness and I can safely feel warm and fuzzy about using it. That would make me happy. :-) Until then...Plan B has got to move forward since there is nothing new int eh downloads section here and status quo will simply not work.
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Not knowing eats me the most, is it on or is it off ...
A few comments every now and then or a simple progress bar to tell how far the work has gone would be nice.
I wont denie am allways looking out for new CMS's but I have a few SD licenses and I like the SD product verry much.
We might not need Subdreamer 3 ASAP but a small update to Sd2.6 wich is allready verry stable and only needs some minor fixing, would give us somthing to work with and be a good injection for the community.
I upgraded my SD last desmeber just to show my support and to give some money to the project.
I think more users should do the same. We will be rewarded in the end with a good ongoing community and product.
I wont give up easyle on Subdreamer and I will stick with it at least throug out this year.
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Writing the above post led to a conversation with a couple friends of mine - both active webmasters over a combined 15 or so sites. They are not SD fans and brought up a good point that the SD dev team should consider...
To build a small personal web site with a few pages and not much content takes less than an afternoon. Someone that wants to get fancy with this type of site may buy SD. It is easy to build a site with - easy to walk away and start over if SD goes away.
People building sites with the intention of 500+ registered members and integration to a forum package and other applications have a totally different set of concerns. These people are willing to give up features and functions if they know two things: (1) The site is secure, and (2) The products used are actively being developed and keeping pace with technology.
SubDreamer is in a tough place. For the personal site it is expensive given the many free, well supported alternatives like Joomla. For the larger sites, given the long periods of silence, there is just no way to justify starting a site today with SD. Most of the remaining customers are ones that have a vested interest - like me - in an existing site with custom coding.
I do not know the personal situation of the owners of SD. I strongly suspect that SD does not pay the bills. Could it though? Through advertising, getting the word out, releasing updates more frequently and generating sales..? Bring back the warm and fuzzy feeling that you love us...please?
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I run a website using SD mostly as a nice looking shell/frontpage with almost all my content based on my vBulletin-forum. So far I've been happy with SD, but the lack of visible improvement/development is beginning to get at me.
I've noticed that the coming vBulletin 4.0. will move more in the direction af an actual CMS-system, which of cause will make me consider my future on the SD-platform, unless something positive will happen. The lack of information on a regular basis is unsettling.
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My license expired and I didn't get any major software updates during the whole year. I won't update my license until the SD3 come out.
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Thats a Good Idea.......ditto!
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That's what I'll do, too! The lack of information about the future of SD is killing me. I allready thought about changing the CMS ...
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Elvis,
Im already past the thinking stage
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How's your Drupal-powered website coming along?
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Amazing.
Should have started there , instead of ending up there, if you know what I mean
I still have a few running Subdreamer, but they will suffer the same fate im afraid.
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Amazing.
Should have started there , instead of ending up there, if you know what I mean
I still have a few running Subdreamer, but they will suffer the same fate im afraid.
I am switching most of my websites to Wordpress instead.
I don't know about you but I'm kind of tired for paying for custom-built plugins.
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I've looked at other CMS's and solutions, but didn't come up with any in my opinion, to many of them were basically blogs with more features, and I wouldn't really call that a cms. Where as subdreamer you have full control.
Things like wordpress, drupal and many others are all pretty much article management with lots of extras to give it more abilities, but in the end I didn't find it to be a actual CMS, like subdreamer is....
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If I had several businesses dependent on the CMS, I would say the exact same thing too.
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If I had several businesses dependent on the CMS, I would say the exact same thing too.
signalzero did it for the LULz!
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I actually only have 1 sector of my comapny that relies on it. So its not several, and no I was being honest.
Wordpress, Drupal and many others, don't give you content control that you have in subdreamer. Such as choosing where the content goes on every page. Most of them felt like Article Management/blogs with a lot of added features. I've tried many. Also that is not the case with all of them though, but on a usability standpoint (ease of use), subdreamer is far superior. Like Joomla I would not consider in the Article Management/blogs, whereas its more a true CMS, like subdreamer. Expect its a pain to use in comparison. And don't give me that excuse just because I have vested interest. I do and thats not a lie. But at least with the dozen or so CMS, I didn't find many that were what I would call a CMS (as I've stated before). Most of my business is through hosting, and I do love subdreamer.
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I have to agree with steven. I have looked at others in a full comparision and I keep coming back to SD. But I have spent alot of time creating extra plugins and mods to be better than the other CMS's
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You have your opinion and it wasn't an excuse.
I have a site up on another CMS, and have been playing with it for some time now. I think having 5 subdreamer sites give me the advantage of knowing what it can and can not do.
I will say in no way can it compare to what Drupal can do. CCK ( Content Creation Kit ) and Taxonomy is a very very power combination and does way more. Until you use it and understand it, just comparing it doesn't do it justice.
Ease of use , Subdreamer is by far easier to use, I wont argue that. At a certain point, you need to get under the hood and see what power it has and what it can do. I certainly can do more, with alot less hacking and tweaking than I ever could do in SD. I also have had some HUGE modules written that can do what SD cant.
We wont even discuss the amount of plugins and bridges available compared to SD.
This isnt a slam against anyone, its a honest , open review. SD has its place , and for me , my subscription has expired, and I see a huge gap in development and a severe lack of open , honest communication from the company.
If I were in your position , I too would be concerned that you are running a business mostly dependent on this CMS. The end user needs a CMS that also grows and matures , and this one is NOT. Mine has had 6 releases this year alone, how many has SD had ?
Don't think I am the lone voice. In this economic climate, people aren't going to pay for things that don't work, or that aren't progressing as they should.
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a 100 years ago the horse was far superior to any other means of transportation.. see what happened to that. CRT was far superior to LCD, see what happened. Big gasoline gusting cars where superior, look what most drive these days.
Result earned in the past do not guarantee the future. You are as good as you last product it is as simple as that.
A product can be as good as it is but if not sustained, supported and maintained then it is like pulling a dead horse,failure imminent.
All i see at this forum and the .com is vanishing posts, vague promises on new releases (started somewhere early 2007 as far as i can track back!!!) and many many many deleted threads, posts with people that never post again, weird. Noticed a Hotscript revue, well hmm not very good at all
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On October 23, 2007, I purchased the Subdreamer CMS (Content Management System) from Subdreamer, LLC.
The issues came about when on October 26, 2007, a Subdreamer user (Mr_Bob) posted a major security vulnerability in the software.
http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/project.php?issueid=79
This vulnerability allowed anyone to post comments on articles. The problem, from what I can tell of the coding, is that the Subdreamer team failed to write coding to check to make sure that whom or whatever was posting had permission to do so. On November 3, 2007 I submitted a support request to officially notify Subdreamer of the issue. A few days later I received a response from Brent (Subdreamer team member) stating that they were validating the issue.
I posted some coding that I wrote and worked for me. I posted under the handle krackerjax. Unfortunately, the coding did not work for everyone. Even the owner (Ziad) stated it was incorrect and the correct coding would be posted right away. Well, two weeks later and this coding has yet to be released.
As you can see in the post, Brent has a very relaxed and carefree attitude about the vulnerability. Brent has what is called false security. I guess he thinks just because a few people on the company forums know about it that no hackers or malicious users will ever discover it. Even if they do discover it, to Brent there is no major damage.
There are actually a few things that a malicious user can do:
- Posting of inappropriate comments. What if one of your customers are using SD for a school or church website. What do you think will happen when they get spam comments posted on their articles that are pornographic or spams related to Viagra?
- Posting of a URL to a spoofed website. From national banks to MySpace. These types of accounts have been compromised by people blindly entering in their personal information after clicking on a spoofed website.
- Posting of a URL that leads to a website which may compromise their system using a variety of vulnerabilities in the Windows Operation System as well as software run on Windows.
These are the ideas that come to mind from just a security-conscious person. I can only imagine what some malicious user can think of. In the end, Subdreamer has decided to wait until the next release to fix this problem. I consider this completely unacceptable. Why can't they release an official patch? Why did it take them almost a month to 'Confirm' this vulnerability? Why did Ziad ignore my emails about this issue?
Another problem I have noticed with Subdreamer, besides them ignoring customers, is that they delete posts so that they don't look bad. On quite a few occasions I have posted not only about this security issue, but their use of false advertising and deceptive trade practices.
Subdreamer advertised that when you purchased Subdreamer Pro you would get 6 months of free hosting. In a way that's true. In a way it's not. You get the 6 months free, however, you must sign up for 1 year of hosting and then pay for the other 6. If you sign up for 3 or 6 months, you are charged a $29.95 setup fee. They never stated this with a little * or any other symbol to indicate that there are special terms.
I mentioned in this in the forums and ended up getting one of my replies deleted twice.
http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10516
In this post, I commented about the details of this matter. One of my posts (below in quotes) was deleted twice. I thought at first maybe my computer was messing up and it didn't post it in the first place. That's when I decided to make sure my post was up there before I closed down my browser.
'[QUOTE=Brent]The requirement to register yourself and subscribe to a given term is to verify that you are a legitimate and interested consumer in their services/product before giving you something for nothing. This is a normal procedure.[/QUOTE]
The fact that a person has taken the time to purchase subdreamer and sign up for the hosting should be some indication of a legitimate interest. The partial statement of '...giving you something for nothing.' in reference to somehing for 'free' is completely contradictory. If something is free, then it's free. There are no fees attached to is.
If actions like this are normal procedures, then such 'procedures' are what the FTC considers 'false advertising' and 'deceptive trade practices.' '
It seems that Brent or another Subdreamer moderator deleted that post. After all, that makes Brent and Subdreamer look bad. I have talked privately to another user and have been told that it is not uncommon for Subdreamer to delete people's posts that they don't like.
Today I sent off a letter to the address listed on Subdreamer's corporate listing in the Florida Corporate Database. I did find something odd.
Firstly, if you do a WHOIS on Subdreamer, you'll notice they don't give a valid phone number. Below is the information given:
Hilal, Ziad
Subdreamer
2139 NW Cedar View Ln
Portland, Oregon 97229
United States
5031111111 Fax --
The area code/prefix does not correspond to any phone numbers. It's just false number typed in. Next is the address of Portland, OR. That address traces to some female, not even with the last name of Hilal.
Then, on the corporate filings, there are three addresses listed. It shows Ziad Hilal as being located in Santa Monica, CA (even though the WHOIS information showed Portland, OR):
HILAL, ZIAD
960 3RD ST
SANTA MONICA CA 97403
Another address lsited on the corporate filings is that of someone with his last name. possibly a relative:
HILAL, ALICE
7302 DUNES COURT
BRADENTON FL 34202-5137
The official address listed on their website is:
8374 MARKET ST
447
BRADENTON FL 34202-5137
It all seems pretty fishy to me. I guess they figure that since they have such a 'wonderful' product that they can treat people like dirt, censor them so Subdreamer and their staff don't look bad, and simply ignore major security issues. I sent a letter today to their corporate office requesting a full refund. If I don't receive one then I will be filing complaints with the FTC, BBB, and Florida Attorney General's Office.
I am in the process of migrating over to a free open source CMS. It has nothing to do with cost, it just has to do with preference.
My only suggestion is that if you are thinking of using Subdreamer, then think again. The company is very questionable in my opinion, they don't act upon serious issues, and when you try to raise your voice about these issues, they censor you.
Nicholas
Morgan City, Louisiana
U.S.A.
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On October 23, 2007, I purchased the Subdreamer CMS (Content Management System) from Subdreamer, LLC.
The issues came about when on October 26, 2007, a Subdreamer user (Mr_Bob) posted a major security vulnerability in the software.
http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/project.php?issueid=79
This vulnerability allowed anyone to post comments on articles. The problem, from what I can tell of the coding, is that the Subdreamer team failed to write coding to check to make sure that whom or whatever was posting had permission to do so. On November 3, 2007 I submitted a support request to officially notify Subdreamer of the issue. A few days later I received a response from Brent (Subdreamer team member) stating that they were validating the issue.
I posted some coding that I wrote and worked for me. I posted under the handle krackerjax. Unfortunately, the coding did not work for everyone. Even the owner (Ziad) stated it was incorrect and the correct coding would be posted right away. Well, two weeks later and this coding has yet to be released.
As you can see in the post, Brent has a very relaxed and carefree attitude about the vulnerability. Brent has what is called false security. I guess he thinks just because a few people on the company forums know about it that no hackers or malicious users will ever discover it. Even if they do discover it, to Brent there is no major damage.
There are actually a few things that a malicious user can do:
- Posting of inappropriate comments. What if one of your customers are using SD for a school or church website. What do you think will happen when they get spam comments posted on their articles that are pornographic or spams related to Viagra?
- Posting of a URL to a spoofed website. From national banks to MySpace. These types of accounts have been compromised by people blindly entering in their personal information after clicking on a spoofed website.
- Posting of a URL that leads to a website which may compromise their system using a variety of vulnerabilities in the Windows Operation System as well as software run on Windows.
These are the ideas that come to mind from just a security-conscious person. I can only imagine what some malicious user can think of. In the end, Subdreamer has decided to wait until the next release to fix this problem. I consider this completely unacceptable. Why can't they release an official patch? Why did it take them almost a month to 'Confirm' this vulnerability? Why did Ziad ignore my emails about this issue?
Another problem I have noticed with Subdreamer, besides them ignoring customers, is that they delete posts so that they don't look bad. On quite a few occasions I have posted not only about this security issue, but their use of false advertising and deceptive trade practices.
Subdreamer advertised that when you purchased Subdreamer Pro you would get 6 months of free hosting. In a way that's true. In a way it's not. You get the 6 months free, however, you must sign up for 1 year of hosting and then pay for the other 6. If you sign up for 3 or 6 months, you are charged a $29.95 setup fee. They never stated this with a little * or any other symbol to indicate that there are special terms.
I mentioned in this in the forums and ended up getting one of my replies deleted twice.
http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10516
In this post, I commented about the details of this matter. One of my posts (below in quotes) was deleted twice. I thought at first maybe my computer was messing up and it didn't post it in the first place. That's when I decided to make sure my post was up there before I closed down my browser.
'[QUOTE=Brent]The requirement to register yourself and subscribe to a given term is to verify that you are a legitimate and interested consumer in their services/product before giving you something for nothing. This is a normal procedure.[/QUOTE]
The fact that a person has taken the time to purchase subdreamer and sign up for the hosting should be some indication of a legitimate interest. The partial statement of '...giving you something for nothing.' in reference to somehing for 'free' is completely contradictory. If something is free, then it's free. There are no fees attached to is.
If actions like this are normal procedures, then such 'procedures' are what the FTC considers 'false advertising' and 'deceptive trade practices.' '
It seems that Brent or another Subdreamer moderator deleted that post. After all, that makes Brent and Subdreamer look bad. I have talked privately to another user and have been told that it is not uncommon for Subdreamer to delete people's posts that they don't like.
Today I sent off a letter to the address listed on Subdreamer's corporate listing in the Florida Corporate Database. I did find something odd.
Firstly, if you do a WHOIS on Subdreamer, you'll notice they don't give a valid phone number. Below is the information given:
Hilal, Ziad
Subdreamer
2139 NW Cedar View Ln
Portland, Oregon 97229
United States
5031111111 Fax --
The area code/prefix does not correspond to any phone numbers. It's just false number typed in. Next is the address of Portland, OR. That address traces to some female, not even with the last name of Hilal.
Then, on the corporate filings, there are three addresses listed. It shows Ziad Hilal as being located in Santa Monica, CA (even though the WHOIS information showed Portland, OR):
HILAL, ZIAD
960 3RD ST
SANTA MONICA CA 97403
Another address lsited on the corporate filings is that of someone with his last name. possibly a relative:
HILAL, ALICE
7302 DUNES COURT
BRADENTON FL 34202-5137
The official address listed on their website is:
8374 MARKET ST
447
BRADENTON FL 34202-5137
It all seems pretty fishy to me. I guess they figure that since they have such a 'wonderful' product that they can treat people like dirt, censor them so Subdreamer and their staff don't look bad, and simply ignore major security issues. I sent a letter today to their corporate office requesting a full refund. If I don't receive one then I will be filing complaints with the FTC, BBB, and Florida Attorney General's Office.
I am in the process of migrating over to a free open source CMS. It has nothing to do with cost, it just has to do with preference.
My only suggestion is that if you are thinking of using Subdreamer, then think again. The company is very questionable in my opinion, they don't act upon serious issues, and when you try to raise your voice about these issues, they censor you.
Nicholas
Morgan City, Louisiana
U.S.A.
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maandag 3 november 2008
Subdreamer CMS est all..
Hi readers, this is my futile attempt to let people know that before they decide to buy a CMS system they really really make sure they buy what they need.
I went with Subdreamer about 6 months ago. I did thorough research on CMS systems and the open source ones at that time did not offer me the speed i needed for the CMS.
You see i am not a n00b but my coding skills really suck :) i know how to insert HTML and a small amount of AJAX but that is about it.
So Subdreamer it was and at the time the forum and community they hosted was kind of ok..a bit small but ok. There wheren't that many plug ins available BUT rescue was on the way Version 3 was lurking....
Well.. we are 6 months beyond that point and V3 is still a very good hidden secret. That is not the real problem.. the problem is the people at Subdreamer just blow you away when you inquire about the stuff ahead...
They refuse in any language to tell customers what they are up to. They are sort of working on a 2.6 release for a while now but this offers more of the same boring old web1 stuff... not very 2008 i'd say.
Now when you ask them or even worse criticice them on the forums you end up with one true and sure thing.. your post wil be deleted... just like that.
Now they made things even worse and closed the forum for anything that is remotely related to unsatisfied customers.. eeuuhhrrrr... hmmm
Well ok then we go underground and find the subsite hosted by Subdreamer believers and funded by subdreamer management.. and there the same happens.. challenge them engage them and voila post gets locked.. deleted or you are banned,,,
Well more to follow including the thread in question in pdf format..
stay tuned...
I went with Subdreamer about 6 months ago. I did thorough research on CMS systems and the open source ones at that time did not offer me the speed i needed for the CMS.
You see i am not a n00b but my coding skills really suck :) i know how to insert HTML and a small amount of AJAX but that is about it.
So Subdreamer it was and at the time the forum and community they hosted was kind of ok..a bit small but ok. There wheren't that many plug ins available BUT rescue was on the way Version 3 was lurking....
Well.. we are 6 months beyond that point and V3 is still a very good hidden secret. That is not the real problem.. the problem is the people at Subdreamer just blow you away when you inquire about the stuff ahead...
They refuse in any language to tell customers what they are up to. They are sort of working on a 2.6 release for a while now but this offers more of the same boring old web1 stuff... not very 2008 i'd say.
Now when you ask them or even worse criticice them on the forums you end up with one true and sure thing.. your post wil be deleted... just like that.
Now they made things even worse and closed the forum for anything that is remotely related to unsatisfied customers.. eeuuhhrrrr... hmmm
Well ok then we go underground and find the subsite hosted by Subdreamer believers and funded by subdreamer management.. and there the same happens.. challenge them engage them and voila post gets locked.. deleted or you are banned,,,
Well more to follow including the thread in question in pdf format..
stay tuned...
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