When Designing becomes a detriment
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Net costs: In my experience, and to be honest, failure, you can NOT simply change to a CMS with lights and sparkles and lovely sound bites, and expect success. Success does not come with plastic purchased love. Success comes from giving yourself to your people. Success comes from being in service to others. If you want to be a success, strive to be a servant. To be successful, strive to make others successful, first. If you want to be respected, first you must respect others. That's it. That's the whole story.
It doesn't matter about your super-uber-cool technology. It matters how you Continue to connect people together. It matters how sustainable you are. Do Not, under and circumstances, trade reliable members for glitter. Be in service to your members. Nothing else matters. Stay with Composr. Switching to another CMS because of some CSS letdowns is a disaster. Nothing matches Composr. Learn from my mistakes.
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Malatesa said
I'm just coming out of nowhere to post this. Actually, I've recently closed a major niche website, and I'd like to share my experience with it. First and Last, stay with Composr. Do Not, under and circumstances, leave Composr. Do Not, under any circumstances, expect that you can port data from Composr to any other CMS platform. You will fail unless you've got $10K to spend. And even if you do, PLEASE TRUST ME, it will fail because of the interface. I don't care what the CMS media says, the truth is that forums are very important. You can't fake success, and you can't trick people into thinking some new-fangled CMS is better than old-school.
Net costs: In my experience, and to be honest, failure, you can NOT simply change to a CMS with lights and sparkles and lovely sound bites, and expect success. Success does not come with plastic purchased love. Success comes from giving yourself to your people. Success comes from being in service to others. If you want to be a success, strive to be a servant. To be successful, strive to make others successful, first. If you want to be respected, first you must respect others. That's it. That's the whole story.
It doesn't matter about your super-uber-cool technology. It matters how you Continue to connect people together. It matters how sustainable you are. Do Not, under and circumstances, trade reliable members for glitter. Be in service to your members. Nothing else matters. Stay with Composr. Switching to another CMS because of some CSS letdowns is a disaster. Nothing matches Composr. Learn from my mistakes.
From “When Designing becomes a detriment ”, 25th February 2022, 6:55 am
Couldn't agree more. Years ago I switched from ocPortal to something else. I had to write my own db importer. The new site didn't work out so well so I switched to yet something else and still had to write my own db importer. My forum member base wasn't too happy. I decide to go back to ocPortal and was in the process of writing yet another importer when personal issues happened in my life and forced me to walk away from my online life. When composr was released I decided to play around with it and last year started another site (no forum this time), mainly for my own personal use.
Malatesa said
Success comes from giving yourself to your people. Success comes from being in service to others. If you want to be a success, strive to be a servant. To be successful, strive to make others successful, first. If you want to be respected, first you must respect others.
This is probably true in just about everything in life.
Steve
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