Re: PHP Freaks -> Official Mirror?

Goba, Thanks for clearing things up. I also hate the w3exit popup, that's why I have it limited to 5 page views maximum and if you are a FREE member, you'll never see the popup again. I'm trying to do my best to limit the usage of it, however the contacts that have been made through the w3exit popup has proven to be valuable for reaching out to other people and sites. You have to network yourself in some ways to be able to succeed on the internet. I'm sorry if I took you the wrong way. I'm sure you are a busier person than I am and your short responses are necessary in order to maintain your schedule. However, as you may notice, I make every effort to make a detailed response and answer all questions possible to avoid more email traffic than necessary. This makes for better communication and better understanding of the intentions between myself and the people I deal with. I understand your reasons for putting the PHPdevnet link up in the first place. However, those original reasons outline what PHP Freaks is all about. We aren't just a forums site and we never will be. Since my offerings are of no interest to PHP.net, let me ask this, is there anything more I can do to help PHP? If you guys need anything, please don't hesitate to ask, I'm here for PHP. As I said, I'm a true PHP Freak. I can't get it out of my head and I've discarded other languages I once knew. Thank you for your time. I'm sorry things had to get so blown up regarding all of this. Regards, Eric 'phpfreak' Rosebrock http://www.phpfreaks.com Quoting Gabor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu>: > > I think you are being very unfair about this whole situation. I dedicate > 18+ > > hours a day to PHP and the PHP Community. I think I deserve a little more > > respect than you give me. I have built a large community of people that do > > nothing but help each other with PHP. In case you haven't noticed, our > site > > has become one of the Premiere PHP sites on the net, right next to > > phpbuilder and a couple other giants with corporate backing. > > > > All I am asking is for a link, a Community Link, which is what we are. In > > exchange for that, I can understand if you removed my link from your Links > > page. > > There are of couse many successful PHP communities out there, including > SitePoint Forums, Weberdev, PHPBuilder, even the Zend Community. If you > look closely to the list of links on the frontpage, you can see, that > the Community parts reflects the community PHP *is in*, and not the PHP > community itself (except PHP Developer Network). None else, but I was > that particular person, who extended that community list to include > PHPDevNet, because I felt a major hub of the PHP community should be > listed there. I regret that I have made that decision, and caused > problems between us. > > To make things clean and clear it would be ideal from our point to > remove the PHPDevNet link, and stay with the original concept of that list. > > > I am very sad to say that my dealings with the inner-workings of PHP (you > at > > the moment) are turning out to be a major disappontment considering how > much > > work I put into the community. > > I am very sad that you felt that my message is offensive against you. > You can be sure that I am as most of the guys here devote the majority > of the daytime to open PHP projects, and we respect others who do so. > > > I already said I would comply with your wishes regarding the w3exit. I > will > > completely remove it from my site. > > I still wonder that you read my few lines correcty, although I have > asked you to do it again. I said that w3exit would be a reason alone not > to list your site, but I have added that we are not to put up your link > (or any other PHP site anyway) to that list, beucase the intention of > that list is not to list PHP sites. We have the links page for that > reason, and you are already listed on the links page. BTW we have > refused previous link addition requests (to links.php) because sites > were w3exit members, or had extensive number of disturbing (popup) ads, > so you are still in better position then others. > > I am prepared to remove the DevNetwork link, as it changed to be "just a > forum site" since it was started, and it does not seem to be what it was > intended to be anymore... > > Goba > >