[cooperdk]

Originally Posted by Gaystoryman

That is an interesting review. Makes old threads valuable, when someone has something to contribute to them.

Isn't AdultSiteCMS a posterhere too? Perhaps (if he/she is) they'll give us an explanation

I have no idea. The only thing I am sure of is that he had plenty of chances to get it right and he never got back to me to explain why he stopped fixing it.

So we sit back with a script where the calendar and the models pages don't work, not very professional to have to present your members with that. It was even supposed to be SEO friendly, well, it is, if you open up your members area...

[cooperdk]

Originally Posted by mystudiodesire

I prefer wordpress than any custom cms.. and any website for that.

Well, so did I, which was the main reason for my choice of AdultSiteCMS which is Wordpress based. But it turned out to be a mistake. Not following Wordpress coding standards, using extinct plugins, and a problematic release of WP (3.0.3) etc.

OR... did you mean that you prefer building sites from ground up? I don't think that's a viable choice, considering the amount of time required. The adult business is bleeding, at least here in Denmark, due to piracy etc.

[Tigger]

The adult business is bleeding, at least here in Denmark, due to piracy etc.

Not just Denmark !!!

Makes you wonder how many studios / producers are going to be left soon - then watch the twats complaining that theres no decent porn films being made anymore

[cooperdk]

Originally Posted by Tigger

Not just Denmark !!!

Makes you wonder how many studios / producers are going to be left soon - then watch the twats complaining that theres no decent porn films being made anymore

Exactly.

I actually had to make a very straight on comment on a Danish board called Babeindex recently, because the board users were whining about us producers removing their torrents, rapidshare etc. files just hours after they uploaded them.

What I know for fact is most of these people don't even know what they risk. We recently won a case in which someone stole pictures we had made years ago. A user put it up on a site for public display. Big mistake.

Seriously, I think that the reason why the adult business is bleeding is not recession, not stagnation, not the new technologies directly, but the fact that so many people choose to ABUSE the technologies to provide free porn. When it's not theirs to share.

I am about to start a service providing digital security to some of those companies. It won't be solely Danish customers, I expect to land a few of the East Euro ones too. Exclusive content is worthless if it is shared left & right.

[Tigger]

Seriously, I think that the reason why the adult business is bleeding is not recession, not stagnation, not the new technologies directly, but the fact that so many people choose to ABUSE the technologies to provide free porn. When it's not theirs to share.

agree - people will always find ways to buy some porn. My main income "thankfully" is within the contacts game and whilst yes its slowed a little I'm still seeing yearly increases in income, so whilst people are still finding things hard they will still pay to join a contacts website. My other business which was vod has seen it drop from a healthy 4 figure monthly income to a crap 4 figures and at the rate its going will probably slip below 4 figures mid next year. If something isn't done there will be no quality porn produced

[housekeeper]

Originally Posted by Tigger

If something isn't done there will be no quality porn produced

It's the age old adage, it's takes money to make money. I've been spending $ on trannies for close to twenty five years, I've been making $ off of trannies for six years. Since I've been in the business the quality of the product has jumped immensely, as a producer the standard is presently what it is and you have to produce on a certain level to be successful. The top companies in my niche are producing high quality content, updating sites on a daily basis, and opening new site seemingly every week. The only noticeable slowdown is when I see them open networks, which isn't necessarily that big a slowdown or could be an upgrade depending on your point of view.

Yet and still it's survival of the fittest and yes, free porn is still the bane of our existence...

[adultsitecms]

Howdy!

AdultsiteCMS does not control in any way the authentication system. This is done on purpose to make it compatible with ALL billing methods and to enable the webmaster to integrate it into any billing solution they can think of.

All you need to do is protect the /members/ with some kind of .htaccess method or similar and put some join links on the join page and go live. There is no need to understand postbacks.


Here are the questioned answered:

1) Awiz has a "anti-hack" database, was wondering if adultsitecms had one.
NONE

2) Awiz has a "password sharing" default page - meaning if multiple people log on using the same username and password from different IP addresses, it won't allow them to log on and forwards them to a webpage (mine states that the person was sharing the password which is a violation of the membership terms).
NO you would need to add something like strongbox or similar.

3) Awiz has content that goes dormant after "x" months and can come back after "x" months. This is a very important feature as it allows the content to remain looking fresh. Currently, I have many of my sets go active for 6 months and then go off for 6 months. If I put a set up everyday for 3 years, then after 3 years the set will have 3 new sets going up everyday!
THIS COULD BE DONE IF YOU INSTALL THE CORRECT PLUGIN FOR IT - LOOK FOR WORDPRESS RE-PUBLISH EXPIRED POSTS.

4) Awiz has the ability to add rolling ad banners - to advertise other sites. I like this feature as I can in my members area advertise either my other sites or sites that are pertinent to my site (for example, my site is an art - nude retro site. I may promote art sites such as met-art or promote my future sites (ladiesonfilm, xonfilm, fetishonfilm, etc)
YOU CAN DO THIS IF YOU ADD IN ADVERTISING MODULES OR SIMPLY CREATE A LINKS PAGE IN THE ADMIN.

[Bill Benson]

JMO but self promotion without useful contribution to the forum and its members should = spam!

[Gaystoryman]

Originally Posted by adultsitecms

Howdy!

AdultsiteCMS does not control in any way the authentication system. This is done on purpose to make it compatible with ALL billing methods and to enable the webmaster to integrate it into any billing solution they can think of.

All you need to do is protect the /members/ with some kind of .htaccess method or similar and put some join links on the join page and go live. There is no need to understand postbacks.


Here are the questioned answered:

1) Awiz has a "anti-hack" database, was wondering if adultsitecms had one.
NONE

2) Awiz has a "password sharing" default page - meaning if multiple people log on using the same username and password from different IP addresses, it won't allow them to log on and forwards them to a webpage (mine states that the person was sharing the password which is a violation of the membership terms).
NO you would need to add something like strongbox or similar.

3) Awiz has content that goes dormant after "x" months and can come back after "x" months. This is a very important feature as it allows the content to remain looking fresh. Currently, I have many of my sets go active for 6 months and then go off for 6 months. If I put a set up everyday for 3 years, then after 3 years the set will have 3 new sets going up everyday!
THIS COULD BE DONE IF YOU INSTALL THE CORRECT PLUGIN FOR IT - LOOK FOR WORDPRESS RE-PUBLISH EXPIRED POSTS.

4) Awiz has the ability to add rolling ad banners - to advertise other sites. I like this feature as I can in my members area advertise either my other sites or sites that are pertinent to my site (for example, my site is an art - nude retro site. I may promote art sites such as met-art or promote my future sites (ladiesonfilm, xonfilm, fetishonfilm, etc)
YOU CAN DO THIS IF YOU ADD IN ADVERTISING MODULES OR SIMPLY CREATE A LINKS PAGE IN THE ADMIN.

Interesting SIDE STEP of the issue raised about YOUR CMS. Just so you don't miss it, and perhaps might actually have an explanation. This is what was said about your CMS in this very thread, which obviously you read, selectively.

This is an old thread, but I feel I have to express my opinion and tell about our experience with AdultSiteCMS.

In Denmark, the money in the adult industry is small. Therefore you have to be very careful when buying software etc. and make sure that you don't waste your time.

With AdultSiteCMS, my experience is that ... you DO waste your time.

The software is half finished, as is the manual (still a v2 one with more important info missing).
The software does NOT easily support theming, because a lot of the layout is hard-coded in the main files.
The multi-language utility does NOT work beyond Wordpress 2.8 and ASCMS is shipped on a Wordpress 3.0.3 which means more important features, such as multilingual text, does not work in most cases.
The models area show wrong videos/photos for models (bad matching)
The video and photo lists (on a stock copy) mess up the thumbnails
The featured/preview flash code doesn't work out-of-the-box

In short, I wasted 50+ hours on this. To make matters worse, I have had Claudio look at some of the things and the only thing he managed to get to work was the images (photo/video sections) that now show the right thumbnail.

What is this??? A first year student trying to make some extra cash? We paid $250 for software that was supposed to work out of the box.

The SECOND BIGGEST problem, as far as I can gather, is that he uses Wordpress as a base, but does not use Wordpress code or standards to code his part. Which also means that it is very difficult to get plugins to work.

But the BIGGEST problem, the ABSOLUTELY UNFORGIVABLE problem, is that the software does NOT utilize your video/photo titles and article text for SEO purposes in the tour area. THAT IS THE WORST MISTAKE EVER!!!

We are shopping for something else and see ASCMS as a failure, costing $250 plus 50 hours of frustration on top of the 30-40 hours I spent adding material to it.

STAY AWAY FROM IT... at least, until the issues are corrected, which might be never.

So let's see if you will answer those issues, point by point, or will you just post more dribble in the chill section?

[adultsitecms]

I apologize for the delay. As much as our naysayers would like to think that we were stalling, we had more pressing things to do. This particular thread has been in our minds since another member of this message board had crudely turned our attention to it a month ago. But like I said in what we posted in the boards, Claudio wanted more attention be given to the launch of version 4 .

In the matter of spamming, the poster we hired was instructed to post on the proper channels. We had him specifically post at the Chill Section of this message board primarily to spark conversation on non-technical threads. That had been the intent all along. That is probably why we never saw the offending thread about AdultSiteCMS. If the moderator (Tigger) felt we were truly malevolently spamming, they would had told us to stop, and we would have. No problem there. Our poster posted a topic there because it was appropriate to that area of the forum. The topics he had posted were arguably within the theme of the section of that message board. And it's not as if he was posting questionable offensive content. In all the forums we had him post, the only messages we got were when a thread has been moved. And they were few. If you have problems with the threads posted in the message board, then don't read it! Nobody's forcing you to.

Now, with regards to one of the posters' concern with an early version of our software, I have given Coperdk's complaints to Claudio since he was the one who dealt with the person years ago. Below are his comments. Now, we don't expect people to be satisfied with the answers. Because sometimes, people don't have an open mind. They'd rather vent and point fingers. It's just easy to complain about why things didn't turn out the way they wanted. We just hope the other people would understand that we do try to rectify things. As other people might insinuate that we leave customers on the lurch, we do try
to help.

So before I leave the proverbial mike to Claudio, I would just like to give some advice to people who have complaints about our technical support. Don't hide in a message board and just kvetch about not getting your way. Please go to us directly.

With AdultSiteCMS, my experience is that ... you DO waste your time.
- I am sorry to hear that, I am sure if you had contact us we would have saved you a lot of time. Upgrades are also free so now we are on CMS 4.0. Again it would have saved you a lot of time.

The software does NOT easily support theming, because a lot of the layout is hard-coded in the main files.
- As mentioned before, theming of the members area is done just like a regular Wordpress theme. The tour contains our custom files which does require you to have a good foundation of php if you want to heavily modify them. If you simply want to change header, footer and theme colors, all of this is done in the admin on all version of AdultsiteCMS.

The multi-language utility does NOT work beyond Wordpress 2.8 and ASCMS is shipped on a Wordpress 3.0.3 which means more important features, such as multilingual text, does not work in most cases.
- This is simply not true. All our versions work with the latest Wordpress versions. You may have upgraded it and broke it. We also offer helping you upgrade it for free.

The models area show wrong videos/photos for models (bad matching)
- Bad matching in the model area is caused by corrupted data related to the tagging system used in Wordpress. Having models with no images, no names, and mixing up tags with category names are the reason why things get screwed up. Again, we have fixed this in later versions. We would have been happy to help you upgrade your system or at least provided you with a zip with the original release.

The video and photo lists (on a stock copy) mess up the thumbnails
- Only if you have no thumbnails on some sets. Again fixed on later versions.

The featured/preview flash code doesn't work out-of-the-box
-I have no idea what you mean. we use Cinemaplayer and now use JW player. Both are third party players. You can put in any player you want like Flowplayer.

In short, I wasted 50+ hours on this. To make matters worse, I have had Claudio look at some of the things and the only thing he managed to get to work was the images (photo/video sections) that now show the right thumbnail.
- Haven't we fixed your thumbs issue?

What is this??? A first year student trying to make some extra cash? We paid $250 for software that was supposed to work out of the box.
- Coperdk, you are just being rude. When we installed the software for you, it worked. Once things got corrupted, it did not and we fixed it. We later added checks against this corruption in case it happened.

The SECOND BIGGEST problem, as far as I can gather, is that he uses Wordpress as a base, but does not use Wordpress code or standards to code his part. Which also means that it is very difficult to get plugins to work.
- Again, I have mentioned this many times. We have purposely created AdultsiteCMS to avoid having Wordpress manage the protection of content using a session based membership authentication and content protection method or any other similar method. We are currently working on an AdultsiteCMS4 Pro version which will have this and be 100% Wordpress. However, it will be more expensive and will require many more server libraries.

We want to keep AdultsiteCMS simple and inexpensive. This is why we built it this way.

- AdultsiteCMS requires no knowledge of Postbacks or billing integration. You just protect the /members folder with .htaccess or a similar method.

- AdultsiteCMS requires no special server requirements over those required by Wordpress which means it can work on any VPS or even a shared hosting environment.

- AdultsiteCMS IS turnkey, which means all you need to do is add a custom header choose a theme have a company like CCbill protect the members folder and add your join links and content and go live. No other Adult CMS is so simple and requires so little technical knowledge!

- AdultsiteCMS allows you to custom add anything you want – you must however, have the technical knowledge in order to do so. Wordpress is fairly complex to understand. Some of customers have added digital downloads or social networking modules or paypal payment modules, etc.

But the BIGGEST problem, the ABSOLUTELY UNFORGIVABLE problem, is that the software does NOT utilize your video/photo titles and article text for SEO purposes in the tour area. THAT IS THE WORST MISTAKE EVER!!!
- I am not really sure what you mean here except to say that our URLs are SEO friendly including the titles and tags (at least on later versions). If you need more SEO friendly plugins added you could have asked us to add them for you.

SIMPLY PUT: You could have just installed a simple Wordpress on your root folder / and then iframed or included our tour pages as dynamic content into your Wordpress and this would have allowed you all the things you wanted without much development . I wish you had asked ask about it, rather than simply slamming us on this board years later.

We are shopping for something else and see ASCMS as a failure, costing $250 plus 50 hours of frustration on top of the 30-40 hours I spent adding material to it.
- I'm sorry you feel that way. But the truth of the matter is, you could have done all you wanted had you contacted us and explained it so we could have helped you.

STAY AWAY FROM IT... at least, until the issues are corrected, which might be never.
- This is uncalled for. No wonder you are still looking for a solution, it seems your technical knowledge is very limited . You spent 50 hours on something we can resolve in 2-3 hours. Also your patience seems limited. Most of my clients who are making good money with AdultsiteCMS are too busy managing their sites to post negative comments about a product they purchased years ago.

We helped you with 2 free installs on multiple servers. We helped you with specific Danish language issues and train you to put in the right tags.

You re-wrote the entire Danish language translation and sent it to us - is this part of his 50 hours? I don’t even want it - we use professional translators which are familiar in adult language terms.

I will say this in general, no script or software will act as a front line support for your business. If you are running any CMS program as the back-end of your site, you will lose money. You need to either be very technical or learn quickly and wear many hats. Be ready to be wake up on the middle of the night if your site is down for any reason. You could also hire a server admin, a webmaster, a designer (if you need custom design) and make sure that you have at least 3 servers running in 3 locations - development, deployment (live) and a backup server.

I cannot tell you how many clients who seem to not fully understand the benefits of having backups or not making live changes and breaking their sites without any way to revert changes. I know, its a question of cost usually, but I would never run anyone's site with all these contingencies.

[cooperdk]

"- This is uncalled for. No wonder you are still looking for a solution, it seems your technical knowledge is very limited . You spent 50 hours on something we can resolve in 2-3 hours. Also your patience seems limited. Most of my clients who are making good money with AdultsiteCMS are too busy managing their sites to post negative comments about a product they purchased years ago."

To make the story short, yes, perhaps you could fix it in 2-3 hours. But I had issues with the software, even from scratch, and you did NOT fix it. I mailed you several times about this.

You offered NO free installation. You attempted to fix software that was broken from the beginning and still is. We tried on two servers and had the same issues. I even had the issue om my own test setup.

And NO, I am no novice. I have 15 years of experience, just not with PHP.

I would, however, still be interested in seeing if the issues we had are fixed in v4. They were a bitch to deal with and so now we had to pull the site.

With the seo unfriendliness, what I mean is that the description you can put for content (post content) is not used in the tour area, which is all that Google has access to. That is a big no-no and has to be addressed. Otherwise you lose a helluva lot in SEO.

[Tigger]

With the seo unfriendliness, what I mean is that the description you can put for content (post content) is not used in the tour area, which is all that Google has access to. That is a big no-no and has to be addressed. Otherwise you lose a helluva lot in SEO.

just want to pick up on your last comment

meta description has no SEO benefit other than the snippet used within the serps and if you don't have one or a can't be crawled as in this case G will just pull text from the page and use that - true you have less control over whats posted in the serps but there is no SEO benefit

[pete4adult]

Originally Posted by Tigger

meta description has no SEO benefit other than the snippet used within the serps and if you don't have one or a can't be crawled as in this case G will just pull text from the page and use that - true you have less control over whats posted in the serps but there is no SEO benefit

really bugger I've been working on descriptions trying to boost rankings

[cooperdk]

Originally Posted by Tigger

just want to pick up on your last comment

meta description has no SEO benefit other than the snippet used within the serps and if you don't have one or a can't be crawled as in this case G will just pull text from the page and use that - true you have less control over whats posted in the serps but there is no SEO benefit

Yeah, but I am not talking about meta description, I am talking about Wordpress post content. That is, the text that is displayed on the page in connection with a video/gallery post.

This is a MUST to include in the tour area, for SEO purposes.

BTW, I did not purchase ASCMS years ago as Claudio states. We bought it, I believe, in August 2011. And as I wrote, I have made 4 test installations AND 2 production ones, and had the same errors on all of them. Both on Windows and different Linux systems so there is NO WAY the issues are due to improper installation.

I can see from the new v4 site that someone purchased v4. On the v3 site, all of the customers had moved on to other software (wonder why).

[Tigger]

Yeah, but I am not talking about meta description, I am talking about Wordpress post content. That is, the text that is displayed on the page in connection with a video/gallery post.

This is a MUST to include in the tour area, for SEO purposes.

with ya and yes not having post content within blogs kinda makes it pointless

I can see from the new v4 site that someone purchased v4. On the v3 site, all of the customers had moved on to other software (wonder why).

considering you purchased so recently you would have thought a free upgrade would have been on the table if the old version had these bugs you pointed out