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Andrey Sivtsov, General Director, BoonEx Group, sent along clarifications about the BoonEx/AEWebworks deal. It was a bit confusing to say the least which is why I am writing this. Bias alert: Boonex/AE is an advertiser, if you think the amount of money I get from the few ads on this blog is enough to bias me you don’t know enough about blogging.
BoonEx is a privately owned company, based in Kyrgyz Republic, established in the end of 2005. BoonEx was founded by AEwebworks co-owner. In the end of 2005 AEwebworks properties were split between co-owners and AEwebworks website along with aeDating software legally became a property of BoonEx Group.
BoonEx will continue to support all AEwebworks customers and aeDating software, as per aeDating license agreement. Theyrecommend switching to Dolphin or Shark, as they believe that BoonEx delivery terms and support system is more effective for customers than those of AEwebworks.
What is Shark? Shark is dating business software. Shark was designed and developed by BoonEx Group from ground up and it is a truly high-end product for running a high-scale dating website. Shark has compiled C-based backend and PHP/AJAX-based front-end. Shark doesn’t have the variety of functions as Dolphin does, because it has different philosophy. They are working on the main engine, trying to polish it, while extra features can be developed individually for any specific customer. Shark is meant to be a corporate solution with main focus on business and marketing tools, greater stability and security levels.
BoonEx is now in the process of porting popular aeDating templates into Dolphin (web community software). They also plan to release a few new products and upgrade current ones.
More on Ray, Barracuda and Dolphin.
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56 responses so far ↓
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James J. (Check me out!)
// May 9, 2006 at 11:31 am
Who actually uses these software packages?
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// May 9, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Thank you for posting this. The “revolution” really makes some people confused, so this article may help.
To James J: All sorts of people use our products, from all continents, of almost all ages. If you’d be a bit more specific, I could tell you more. You can try them yourself toom as most of them are free.
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Dawn (Check me out!)
// May 11, 2006 at 8:48 am
Shark: “it is a truly high-end product for running a high-scale dating website”
For $200?
Dolphin: “Create your own alternative to MySpace or Match.com”
For free?
Do you think there’s a lot of idiots out there?
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// May 12, 2006 at 1:41 am
To Dawn: BoonEx is now service-oriented, and this is why we do not set huge price tags. If you feel that higher price votes towards software reliability, you’re wrong. Think about, say, Linux, which is an open source, free OS - a superb operating system. We are making money on product support, thus giving more freedom and flexibility to our cutomers. Alternatively, you may go pay XXXX dollars and hope for better.
What we say on our site is true. Dolphin is capable to run as a MySpace/match.com alternative, and Shark IS a software for high-scale dating business website - thanks to its unique architechture and versatile engine.
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Dawn (Check me out!)
// May 16, 2006 at 1:19 am
Sorry, Boonex, that doesn’t convince at all.
The reason I’m writing this is that I was considering to purchase a site from Aewebworks but found a lot of negative comments here and there about your customer support and server software problems.
Your recent move looks more like you decided to dive into bottom market. Now that you have a “free” product it doesn’t let your customers complain too much. Otherwise, why would you enhance your support for less money?
I think I’m not the only one confused here. I don’t mean to discredit your business but now you look even less serious than before offering everyone to become a next myspace for (almost) free. Does that mean you ate up your VC budget? Do you hunt for clueless bottomsters? Please, clarify because so far it looks like you are not going to play more than another year.
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// May 17, 2006 at 12:25 am
The switch is really somewhat confusing, but there is a serious growth plan behind it. aeDating is offered for $690 with lifetime support and sometimes it is really inefficient and unprofitable to provide lifetime support forever because costs sometimes are higher than $690. Customers complained and we couldn’t provide enough techs to maintain good levels of support. Now, we give out the software for free, while support is either collaborative, or provided via membership system. Thus we cover our expenses more efficiently and provide better support for those who really need it.
We aim at greater software distribution, greater popularity, and subsequently better outcome. This is a major upgrade for our entire company and we already feel the benefits. New software versions are coming soon and great new BoonEx Club features will be deployed within a few weeks. The whole thing is new for both customers and us, but we really believe that it is a change to good. Software can be both good and free.
We are going to prove that BoonEx products are good, but BoonEx Support is THE BEST.
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Dawn (Check me out!)
// May 17, 2006 at 1:43 am
Wait, leaving out marketing from your words I see that you are saying that insane aedating model of free lifetime support didn’t work for you and now you try something else. Like throwing all your customers into public forum in hope to lessen your support work volume but still earn money on support fees?
But how am I supposed to benefit as your end customer? Now that you removed price tag, there’s going to be 1000 new dolphins every day. Also, you created excuse for the lack of support and software quality.
Now, I’m going to have neither any kind of a unique site, nor any sensible support which is necessary.
How do non-programmers deal with you at all?
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// May 18, 2006 at 12:22 am
Some people are too fast to judge and accuse. First off, we are NOT going to drop aeDating cutomers now or in the future. We will continue supporting them, and we will continue supporting aeDating along with its current delivery terms. Dolphin is anoher option, and we do believe that it is more effective. All sorts of forecasts about us “going to dump aeDating customers” are just groundless. We are on the market for over 3 years, released over 10 major upgrades and we are growing. Dolphin is not about creating an excuse; it is about focusing on support, rather than sales. This is a quality move.
As for 100s of Dolphins every day…. well, software is just a tool; success of the site is up to you. There’re thousands of forums, weblogs, and chats, but only some of them are really popular. We give out the software for free, and provide an option to buy quality support when and if you need it. Isn’t that fair for a customer?
Dolphin is a mature product with unmatched functionality, stable upgrade history and active support team. Dolphin beats all its competitors in terms of functionality, and our customers give us unique opportunity to make it better, by fixing bugs and improving its structure. aeDating used to be the best dating software on the market, but it was pricey for some. Dolphin is free and its even better than aeDating.
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Dawn (Check me out!)
// May 22, 2006 at 3:42 am
You didn’t answer my question. What’s the point for you to give better support for less money now?
What you say could be sensible. If I didn’t discover this:
http://modmysite.com/showthread.php?t=2563&page=2
To quote exactly:
“Come on………….
Think you did not get my sarcastic sense of humour.
Dolphin is nothing but aedating 4.1 with another template nothing new there. If you run ultracompare most of the database structure is the same apart form the language file. The changes are cosmetic and NO ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY IS ADDED TO THE SCRIPT.
They basically want all of us to join and become premium members and pay dollars 50 a month after we have already spent $690 on the very same script.
This is just another money making scheme.”
This page alone gives me an idea of what it tastes to be your customer for both old and new software. Every other discovery about your company makes me believe you less and less.
Also, you seem to haven’t figured out how you run your business yet, people complain that you juggle their licenses, prepaid “free support” and “free updates”. Also legal questions? People are confused. Did you know what you claimed as “free software”? You discontinued someone’s support for sharing your free software? What’s all this about?
http://modmysite.com/showthread.php?t=2554&page=4
Do you agree that all this doesn’t add up much to your credibility?
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// May 24, 2006 at 12:02 am
Ok, I’ll try to answer your specific questions:
Q. What’s the point for you to give better support for less money now?
A. The point is that we do not take less money. We take money only from those who need support, leaving more professional users a chance to use the script freely. Thus we make it more popular and have more users, and can sell more associated service. Additionally, with collaborative support and with free access to the script we can improve the software much faster. We are trying to be more flexible and more professional, but still lots of people are trying to find something fishy in this move. Look, BoonEx is a growing company with big plan and we want to build good reputation.
Q. modmysite
A. This site is always presented as something we should be ashamed of. On the other hand I could fid A LOT of similar or worse complains about ANY other dating software or any other web script on the market. We have THOUSANDS of customers, most of which are happy with the product and support. Hundreds of them buy extra licenses or order custom services again and again. Also look, at modmysite… Do you see that all other products are hardly active there? With all whine MMS users still stick with aeDating and choose it as their dating software solution. We know of problems. We have a good team to solve them. And we launched Dolphin to solve faster. For now BoonEx is the biggest dating software provider in the world, with most popular product, which has most active upgrade history and biggest features list. And most importantly – we are focused on IMPROVEMENT.
Q. …people complain that you juggle their licenses, prepaid “free support” and “free updates”. Also legal questions? People are confused.
A. We NEVER cancel licenses or deprive people of support, unless they violate terms of License Agreement. Most, if not all, modmysite members who complain about “juggling� violated terms of LA – they either tried to resell the software or its parts, installed it on multiple domains or removed AEwebworks copyright notices from the code. This is nothing new. Go to Microsoft and tell them about warez site where people complain about their cracked Windows OS bugs.
Q. You discontinued someone’s support for sharing your free software? What’s all this about?
A. We did not discontinue anyone’s support and we are not going to do so. Additionally, let me tell you that aeDating will live on, together with Dolphin, but with different delivery terms.
This is a big change and we know that many are confused and we are trying to explain everything on our site, in forums, weblogs, everywhere. We launched our “Sea Predators� line with one goal – offer effective and affordable web business tools, backed with EXCELLENT support. Whatever it takes, we are going to achieve this goal. Period.
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// May 31, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Dawn, I answered you a week agom but looks like my comment was not approved. Anyway, feel free to ask questions to our sales assistants.
In showrt - Dolphin is doing great and new exciting updates are coming soon.
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Dawn (Check me out!)
// Jun 2, 2006 at 4:30 am
Please, answer here:
1) You receive less money now. So why do you claim your support improved?
2) Why do you advertise dolphin as “improved aedating” while our customers say it’s the same piece of software with a only cosmetic changes? aedating 4.1 was released long ago, so the only thing you did was a new name?
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// Jun 2, 2006 at 11:00 pm
1. We receive less money (no money actually) in advance, but we do receive money exactly when we have to do something special. Basic help is free, but in some time people want more modifications, more extras and often Premium Membership.
With aeDating we receive $690 in advance and sometimes we can loose thousands, because somebody needs great deal of help and support. With Dolphin the system works differently - we provide basic support and encourage collaboration, while making the script more popular, widening market share for extras and special services sales. This thing works for us, because aeDating is #1 dating script in the industry and public attention is huge.
2. It is improved. There’s a drag’and’drop site builder, which is very handy for some, there’s improved template structure (complete move to CSS layout), improved lang files treatment, Ray Chat and Messenger integration and a set of bugfixes. We are also about to add some great new features.
For those interested, I would recommend tracking BoonEx Club Newsline - we have some news every day, and big releases about once a week. 40 busy elfs are working on this for you ;)
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Keds (Check me out!)
// Jun 12, 2006 at 12:40 am
Is there a problem with my server or your script. everytime I install the page returns me this error massage.
Warning: main(/home1/adate/public_html/templates/tmpl_dfl/config_design.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /usr/home1/adate/public_html/inc/params.inc.php on line 84
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘/home1/adate/public_html/templates/tmpl_dfl/config_design.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /usr/home1/adate/public_html/inc/params.inc.php on line 84
Plus I cannot see or post anything in boonex public forum really confused and you say basic support is free but where do i get the support for this problem?
Really confused?????
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Keds (Check me out!)
// Jun 12, 2006 at 12:45 am
Is there a problem with my server or your script. everytime I install dolphin the page returns me this error massage.
Warning: main(/home1/adate/public_html/templates/tmpl_dfl/config_design.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /usr/home1/adate/public_html/inc/params.inc.php on line 84
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘/home1/adate/public_html/templates/tmpl_dfl/config_design.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /usr/home1/adate/public_html/inc/params.inc.php on line 84
Plus I cannot see or post anything in boonex public forum really confused and you say basic support is free but where do i get the support for this problem?
Really confused?????
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Chris (Check me out!)
// Jul 10, 2006 at 7:55 am
This Dolphin would have to be THE WORST piece of software EVER written.
On the rare occasion when it works, give it 10 mins and something will go wrong … if editing the source be sure not to touch the language file, otherwise one false move in the admin section and it resets to the original file.
HORRIBLE HORRIBLE SOFTWARE !!
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// Jul 11, 2006 at 3:41 am
I owuld recommend you to post your problems and bugs in BoonEx Club forum, thus you will have help - this place is not for product support posts, AFAIK.
Chris, a lot of people a happy with the script and use it extensively - let us know your specific problems and we will try to help.
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Dawn (Check me out!)
// Jul 23, 2006 at 10:13 pm
It’s indicative to hear Chris’s comment after all this hype. Sorry, Boonex, your customer’s one word overrides a hundred of yours.
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Erin Cox (Check me out!)
// Aug 6, 2006 at 12:38 pm
We’ve had major problems with Aewebworks and I would never recommend them. Their customer service is appalling. We requested a number of modifications to their software for our site beginning October 2005 and it has taken months and months and months. The work itself had to be redone becaust it was so sloppy. Our site is still not live.
In the last three months we have written on their forum and sent emails requesting that the issues be dealt with and they remain unresolved. We have requested a refund in about three or four emails in the past three months and these emails have gone unanswered. Multiple requests for their office address/phone number have been ingnored. I strongly regret buying their product in the first place. We are now seeking legal advice and contacting the Kyrgyz Embassy in London for assistance.
As we are beginning our own sites and blogs, we will publicise as much as we can how poor they are, and will contact web writers at The Guardian (London) to pursue this.
Avoid this company!
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Fun-MG (Check me out!)
// Aug 9, 2006 at 7:40 am
I think the Products from Boonex are ok, but what the are here writing about Support this is an big Joke.
For Livesupport, or visit the Premium Forums the people must pay 50$ per Month.
There it is to much for the Support in Livechat or Premium Forums well all Members who hat the Premium Account must nothing pay for delete the Banner, or Linking in the Footer, but the must pay to for new Addons, or other Templates.
Well look like this, they must pay 20$ for another Template, or 20$ for the Zip Modules.
But when i look, i have 2 Sites , one of Dolphin and one of Barracuda, better i pay for all Linking an Banner Removel 80$ before i pay 50$ per Month for Support in the Live Chat or Premium Forums.
But the Best is, when everybody going on to Translate the Language File in to another Language, Boonex will that you send the Translation to him, thats no Problem, but the Problem is, all People who want hat this Translation must pay ???$ for the Language Translation.
The same is with the Modules, now look we at fun-mg make an Bridge for Connecting Dolphin with Mybboard, but i think when we send the File to Boonex all People who want hat this must pay 20$ or more, but this is our Work, and we make a lot of Modules or another Modifikations, for the Produkts in next Time, but we make it with the GPL-/GNU Lizenz.
The Same is with my German Translation File, i make them to going on with GPL-/GNU, and now i must look what makes Boonex, when every People must pay ????$ for my Translation, so i wil inform the GPL-/GNU Foundation, and i think i will go to German Justice well the System is from Boonex, but the German Translation is making from me, and when i say, there is going on, under GPL-/GNU so is it my Problem, but know boonex say there is the Translation File from Boonex.
To this i can say LooooL
Greets
Siggi
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v1 (Check me out!)
// Aug 9, 2006 at 9:18 pm
I find this thread very intriguing. I scrapped a working site I built with eDating to switch to Dolphin because of the features.
Unlike some others, I was able to get the basic program launched. However, even though Boonex supplies a module (for free) to integrate phpBB, when I tried to intergrate the board that’s when my problems started. The phpBB module does not work.
Boonex supplies a limited amount of info on correcting the problem, but, the true solution is only available to those that pay for premium support.
I can understand their position to a dgree on the premium sppt issue, some folks need it. However, shoudl one have to pay for premium sppt to fix a bug in basic site operation? I think not.
Example, Boonex posts to club page the topic “Fixing Browse Function”. Well, as this would suggest, the basic browse function has a bug. When you click the link to see the fix, you get this message: “Please, upgrade to Premium Member to access this area. See more here on why premium membership is a must for all serious users of boonex software.”
I do not mond at all paying for premium sppt to make actually mods to the code, or, say, get a custom template made. The rub comes in payying for premium sppt to fix a bug in the basic program. THAT, I, and a few others, see as not being fair.
This is my 1st dating site, but I have been on the net since before there was domain name, before there was AOL or Yahoo, and have built some of the largest clothing and apparel sites on the net.
So, a bit of advice to Boonex: a) Fix all these basic bugs. FOR FREE!
If the basic pkg is bug free (including the integration modules) you are going to go a long ways in creating satisfied users, and removing any tarnish from your reputation. As it is now, one feels as though one is being extorted just to get the basic site launched (with forum and chat) and not have major errors. Maybe that is how you guys do things in Mother Russia, but this is the states. Folks think a bit differently over here.
Great potential. Unneccessary obstacles in basic deployment, and thus, widespread usage. Let alone popularity.
(On begins to wonder if they intentionally leave these bugs in.)
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BoonEx (Check me out!)
// Aug 10, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Dolphin script has a lot of features, and, properly installed it is pretty stable. Most “bugs” occur due to inaccurate customization and incorrect server settings, BUT:
Our top priority is quality of Dolphin code and we work on this every single day. We are now powering dolphin development team with 5 new developers, which will speed up its improvement. Dolphin is a #1 dating script on the web, free one and getting better virtually every day. Even more exciting news a re coming soon. Keep in touch.
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Erin Cox (Check me out!)
// Aug 14, 2006 at 3:14 am
Hi, regarding follow-up comments to my posting, the thing people have missed is that we paid for an Aewebworks site and were told support was included. We also paid for additional modifications which took ages to do and some were included.
I find repeatedly on the net that people rate the technical side of software without giving a glace to customer service. Aewebworks and Boonex fail miserably on this score.
Erin.
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Smiley (Check me out!)
// Aug 18, 2006 at 3:23 pm
I think the dolphin script is really good. If you need to pay to get the customer support you need, you’d better pay up and get your work done. I dont think that saying all the bad things against a company can bring a solution to your problems. I learnt that alot of people are happy with the software so what does that tell you? It means that those happy customers did what they have to do to get better support. So guys stop smashing the company name in the mod cos it cant solve no problem. It cant make them lose any customers.
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dan (Check me out!)
// Aug 20, 2006 at 8:23 pm
PATHETIC!
A company (boonex) gives away a free product and people complain…
I have installed boonex software expecting it to be nothing but rubbish. I am pleased with the result.
I am not sure whether I will use boonex support and pay 50$ per month as i am trying to learn.
However, if i do not need support then I would like to send boonex a payment for my product.
Why do people complain at a free product, especially when that product is actually working!
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Dawn (Check me out!)
// Aug 22, 2006 at 3:48 am
See how low they went - fake posts by smiley and dan about dolphin being good. They basically say: “why are you complaining about our lies? doplhin is free, you only pay us to debug it and earn on other hidden costs”.
Who is going to buy this story about “From $690 to free because the product and support became better”.
Boonex, your problem is that you think your customers are idiots. Do you think people are going to pay you money to fix your product? I think there’s no more than 6 months before you go broke or sued to death.
Now you have no more money to pay for ads on this blog. No coincidence, I say.
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Victor Bradford (Check me out!)
// Aug 23, 2006 at 5:51 pm
LOL - you can bet the rent money that whenever someone points out the illogical and disrespectful attitude of aeDating/Boonex toward their clients, it will be immediately followed by at least one tut-tut-how-dare-you fake post. As an aeDating client for several years, I have gotten the same condescending disrespect from the so-called support there since day one.
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rOB (Check me out!)
// Sep 3, 2006 at 1:04 pm
I know aeweworks they are totally useless.Do not understand English or need for speed.
Boonex is an over priced product. They state ” 24/7 support” just e-mail a querstion see how long they take to reply.
Buy the licence then a monthly charge, for what?
Whoever, buys this is totally stupid!
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Rob (Check me out!)
// Sep 4, 2006 at 4:47 pm
An addition to above comment. I sent pre-sales e-mail to Boonex 5 days ago, still waiting a reply.
If this is the speed for a sale, I dread to think
if I had a problem!
Also,AEDating sites can be hacked easily.See comments on this site,they agree.
It appears not much thought has gone into the code
and is a real mess.Someone could earn a fortune sorting aedating customers problems out.
Obviously someone that understands the words rectify,urgent.
I have experienced the same Long Delays as above
commentators.I would not recommend either AEDATING
or Boonex. If people wish to ignore experience,
“Let the buyer beware”.
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Mike (Check me out!)
// Sep 9, 2006 at 3:11 am
It’s funny. When I look at this site I can see why Boonex gets so much grief. There were a couple of ommisions from some of the posted answers that Boonex had written, plus one MAJOR ommision that both Boonex and a poster missed…Boonex doesn’t only present there Dolphin product free…it represents it as an OPEN SOURCE piece of software. Please read up on what open source means.
Also mentioned was modmysite.com…the folks on modmysite are fixing major bug issues for the most part; stuff that boonex should have done to begin with. Most aren’t really angry with the script itself really, but what Boonex is getting away with and the lack of integrity when it comes to so called support and questionable business practices.
There are people on your own forums that have waited several weeks and months for support tickets to be handled without success. The funny thing is…Boonex support issues aside, the script is really quite good. It is stable and realitively fast. It looks good as well. If you know how to develop and code then Dolphin is a pretty good bet…I hate to say it…but it is. Another alternative could be osDate. Give it a try…it’s a bit smaller and not nearly as much going on. But it is very stable and very easy to redesign…and yes…it is OPEN SOURCE as well.
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Andy (Check me out!)
// Sep 9, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Most of the complaints heard here are global, sorry to say true, “if it walks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it probably a duck”
TO WARN all folks that use the “FREE” Dolphin release. it is more like SPYWARE!!!, if yo want proof, I can decode the base 64 encoding and prove that they along with hot links back to their site also have the code set to call home, what do you think they are looking for??, yep you got it, info, info on you and your site.
When Boonex released dolphin as a open source, they also opened the door to legally remove these hot links and call home code.
When or if you do this you will find a much better performance in the script. The more I read, the more I see that its very buggy and needs work.
You are much better off and farther ahead hiring a coder to straighten out the bugs
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Jay (Check me out!)
// Sep 11, 2006 at 7:39 pm
I think every post made on here is from the same person…lol…just under a different name.How I can tell,because in all the post there are “mis-types” that are similiar to the other peoples post or your other MADE UP NAME..lol.
Boonex is GREAT!
Who ever is reading this,nevermind the negative post here.Its prob a rep from an over priced dating software developer PISSED OFF that people are not going to buy their over priced software anymore when they can get it for free.
AND FOR the Boonex service fee,hell thats cheap,$50.00 a month is a FART IN THE WIND,compared to the money you could be making from using Boonex software.
Its like a hair cut..lol.Your hair is free,but you need to pay someone(Barber) to service your hair.Of course you can try to do it yourself,but Im sure you would mess it up so bad that nobody would be attracted to you(Website).SHUT UP,lets move on.Boonex is A++++++++++++++++++++++++++ in my book.
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Mike (Check me out!)
// Sep 13, 2006 at 2:08 pm
What happened? Their website is down today.
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Andy (Check me out!)
// Sep 13, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Jay
Sounds Like You are from boonex, how can I tell????????????
because you are dead wrong in your comments, even about how great boonex is, appearently you dont get around much, except for your own little world, search google and then tell us why its hard to find good words about them!!!! This is SPYWARE SO BEWARE
just get a nulled copy (which is legal)then its not too bad!!
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phil (Check me out!)
// Sep 13, 2006 at 10:33 pm
I just went through google
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=boonex&meta=
and went through 10 pages and didnt really find anything that was bashing boonex. I looked at the sites that review etc etc and once again there really wasnt anything bad in the 10 pages I searched through.
This is from McAfee - please check this out.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/boonex.com/summary/
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Rob (Check me out!)
// Sep 14, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Update I have been waiting 3 weeks for AED _ Boonex to reply to a simple message. It appears
they do not know their own code.They blame problem on browner or pop up blockers,which are not on + others have same problem with site.
Totally disgusted with service and lack of support.
If anyone wants to waste their money just sign up?
I might suggest trying to e-mail presales + support to prove bad response.
A company is made on Customer Service this one just does not seem to be there?
Basically, got your money and run!
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Anon E Mouse (Check me out!)
// Sep 30, 2006 at 6:03 pm
I suppose after reading all this crap, I should write some more…
Angry People: First off give boonex a break, what are you doing with open source if you can’t code. Also they’re from the Former USSR or something, and not fortunate like us in the states, so a couple dollars goes a long way there, perhaps enough to fuel a large support group like they boast, and put food on their tables.
Boonex: Put food on your tables, but don’t exploit Americans. We’re a very testy breed. I like what I’ve seen so far from you, but only time will tell.
Summary: Everyone learn how to code better, stop sucking so much. For those about to code, We salute you.
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Dawn (Check me out!)
// Oct 5, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Anon mouse from boonex, you can’t think your fake posts with made-up names are going to help your company.
Now you say “learn to code”, but previously you said your product was for everyone.
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john (Check me out!)
// Oct 6, 2006 at 7:23 pm
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT! I AM A FORMER CUSTOMER AND THEY STILL HAVE NOT FIXED SOME OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THERE SOFTWARE BUGS. WE HAD TO DEPEND ON OTHER PEOPLE THAT LEARNED THE SOFTWARE MOST BEING FORMER OWNERS. I CANNOT SEE MYSELF PUTTIN ANYMORE MONEY INTO THE PROJECT AS FAR AS WE ALL HAVE CAME! NO ONE WANTS TO SEE ANYONE ELSE GO THROUGH THESE SAME PROBLEMS!
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Redspan (Check me out!)
// Oct 10, 2006 at 6:58 am
I’m a aeDating/Boonex customer. I bought an aeDating license just before the change in business model. I was confused, but I got over it.
I’ve transferred two of my dating sites onto the Dolphin platform. Yes, there have been issues, and yes it has taken too long to sort them out, but one by one they are being sorted out and I do have two working sites that people are still joining and using, and that means they are paying subscriptions so the sites are generating revenue that covers the costs of hosting, promotion, and support.
I agree with many of the criticisms about slow response to support requests but persistance pays off in the end. SHOUTING doesn’t get you anywhere, but constant polite nudging keeps things moving.
I’m not a qualified programmer so I can’t comment on the security issues. This thread has been illuminating in that respect, so I’ll investigate further, but what amazes me is how few dating and community packages are available. I have been in this business for over two years and have found it very hard to find a stable, secure platform with all the right features at a fair price with first class support. Now there’s a challenge for all you programmers!
It seems the big operators have their sites built in-house or at least they outsource and have a one off package built to their specifications.
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Mike (Check me out!)
// Oct 16, 2006 at 1:36 am
Ok I’m convince not to buy any thing from aeweb or BOONEX .HAS ANY ONE TRIED OR REVIEWED SKADATE OR IS THERE ANY DATING SOFTWARE I CAN BUY SIMILAR TO FRIENDFINDER OR HORNYMATCHES
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Max (Check me out!)
// Oct 23, 2006 at 12:40 am
Mike,
My name is Max, I’m from SkaDate.
The best way to learn about quality of our product and services is probably googling for “powered by skadate” and contacting site owners to ask what they think about SkaDate.
For demo, pricing and different setup options check our site:
http://www.skadate.com/
Thank you,
Max Dubovitsky
SkaDate Software
Phone: 505-349-8782
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gaymatch.ie (Check me out!)
// Oct 25, 2006 at 4:37 pm
I bought aedating for 690 dollars, as I liked the idea of lifetime updates.
Then this dolphin thing came along and I felt betrayed, but I said I give it a go.
I requested 3 upgradeds and 5 months later i was upgraded, and a week my site was hacked, and my hosting suspended.
I have since removed dolphin, and WILL NEVER USE IT AGAIN.
Alas I’ve lost 690 dollars over this, and am rightly annoyed.
I’ve never posted here before, and all I can say is AVOID BOONEX AT ALL COSTS
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Shelton (Check me out!)
// Nov 3, 2006 at 6:16 am
Proven: http://www.communityblack.com
I’ve installed Dolphin 5.2 and 5.3 on 3 different servers with no install problems and hell no I don’t work nor am I affiliated with them before you even start that.
I agree to disagree with you guys. For number one I agree that Premium support is way to much to pay at $50 a month but I do have it. It should atleast be $50 every 6 months. But it has helped me out %85 and I have never got a none reply or non answered supprt ticket.Anything else I could find at modmysite.com or figure out myslef and post on modmysite to help others.
As far as everyone havi