One of the members is beating people up in thread after thread that if the forum/cms software is not coded from scratch it ain't shit. I disagree with that perspective. And speaking just for myself, their logic is seriously flawed.
Not every one is wanting to learn how to code from scratch and/or has the time. Pre-made software to me is making the internet world more readily accessible to those that otherwise would not have the chance.
I use vBulletin for my anime site and we run vBulletin at CV. Both sites run like a Swiss watch and require very little to make subtle or big changes. Whereas if the site is hand coded from scratch you might just wind up rewriting blocks of code or the whole thing to make changes. And that seems like a lot of trouble to me.
Not to take away from those that do hand code and know their stuff when it comes to that but there are those out there, moi included, that just don't know how or have a firm enough grip on how to take a shot at it. We are the ones that turn to either pay for or open source.
And there's not a bloody thing wrong with that. Nothing!
With the advent of packaged forum/cms software, ideas, concepts, passions that otherwise would have been stifled or just plain lost, now spring to life on the World Wide Web. People that have no clue about coding but have something they want to say or share with the world now have that opportunity.
From time to time they may pop in to an established forum and ask for some sort of assistance. Whether it's something like asking if any one wants to help by posting content to what can they do to make the logo look better.
NOT get beat up over whether or not they wrote the code from scratch. That sort of response is counter productive, a waste of time, and is a sure bet to run off this person from any forum, not just this one.
So what you guys and gals think of open source/buy versus coding from scratch?
Please let's keep this calm and civil. And keep to generalizations not any one software is better than another one.
Not every one is wanting to learn how to code from scratch and/or has the time. Pre-made software to me is making the internet world more readily accessible to those that otherwise would not have the chance.
I use vBulletin for my anime site and we run vBulletin at CV. Both sites run like a Swiss watch and require very little to make subtle or big changes. Whereas if the site is hand coded from scratch you might just wind up rewriting blocks of code or the whole thing to make changes. And that seems like a lot of trouble to me.
Not to take away from those that do hand code and know their stuff when it comes to that but there are those out there, moi included, that just don't know how or have a firm enough grip on how to take a shot at it. We are the ones that turn to either pay for or open source.
And there's not a bloody thing wrong with that. Nothing!
With the advent of packaged forum/cms software, ideas, concepts, passions that otherwise would have been stifled or just plain lost, now spring to life on the World Wide Web. People that have no clue about coding but have something they want to say or share with the world now have that opportunity.
From time to time they may pop in to an established forum and ask for some sort of assistance. Whether it's something like asking if any one wants to help by posting content to what can they do to make the logo look better.
NOT get beat up over whether or not they wrote the code from scratch. That sort of response is counter productive, a waste of time, and is a sure bet to run off this person from any forum, not just this one.
So what you guys and gals think of open source/buy versus coding from scratch?
Please let's keep this calm and civil. And keep to generalizations not any one software is better than another one.