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Dec 15, 1998, 8:41pm

Whats with all these posts about how much $ COF has to operate with, and
gripes about how infrequently they reply in this NG, and whines about how
infrequent new builds are coming out?

COF is a SMALL company. They are providing a fantastic environment and
have provided quantum improvements to the interface and the actual universe
since I first started using AW and worlds chat.

Time to start cutting them some slack, and realise that they have to
balance a lot of different factors (eg time spent replying to everyone
here, or actually working on AW). And also, while I recognise that users
are what makes AW go forward and develop, crybaby users who dont get
replied to immediatle or have thier suggestion immediatly worked on are
just wasting the AW communities time. Remember the outcry when we started
to actually pay for citizenship?? Just another example of how resistant
users are to really contributing to the community (and just wait for the
bleating when the next fee increase comes along)

There are lots of hard working AW users out there developing, building and
helping. But in the end, COF rescued AW from the (Worlds Inc) bin, and
COFdeserves our support not flames


David Watt (Cit#16677)
watt at cia.com.au

Dec 15, 1998, 9:36pm

Are you new here? :)

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Dec 15, 1998, 10:12pm

somebody else thinks like me! 8-0

cheese

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Dec 15, 1998, 10:35pm

Are you new!?!?!
Of course the idea is great and it's great to be able to use it.
BUt they never pay any attention to wishes, they work slow, inefficient,
weird.
And so does the Aw-browser!

I like the general idea, but COF could make a lot of improvements. And they
don't!! That's the problem.
What the heck do you expect with only one programmer?

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Dec 16, 1998, 5:44am

Me too!!


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> cheese
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> Check out my homepage, it is chocked full of awesome graphics!
> http://thecheese.home.ml.org
> Maybe check out my town in AW!
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Dec 16, 1998, 6:06am

Why new? There always been from time to time some sycophants poping in ngs with
the same style and same arguments. The first who launched the fancy was JP
himself posting under another name like if he was an ordinary user.
But copy/paste old arguments is dangerous. While being a small company was an
excuse at the beginning, two years after and when we are said the business is
going very well, the # of users ever growing, one would wonder. If fact the
company is even smaller than at the beginning. Yes, it's relevant to wonder how
much $ COF has to operate with when they have only one programmer (for two at
the beginning) .


[View Quote] > Are you new here? :)
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> [ fluxen at bigfoot.com dean2 at bigfoot.com ]
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> The nice thing of standards is that there are so many to choose from.
> -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Dec 16, 1998, 8:01am

Which name JP used then? :)

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Dec 16, 1998, 6:06pm

Oh, wait, they've hired Hamfon part-time (probably working on the SDK), so that makes 1.5 programmers...sorta. Still...

[View Quote] > What the heck do you expect with only one programmer?

Dec 16, 1998, 10:23pm

So that's how sick COF makes us:
We even started finding it sycophatic if someone brings great idea's into
our environment ;-)

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Dec 17, 1998, 10:32am

hmmm, that's still a 150% increase.

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Dec 18, 1998, 7:59am

Not necessarily. He's only part-time, from what Roland told me. It's probably more like a ~125% increase. It's a "start" (resume), I guess, however.

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Dec 26, 1998, 6:45pm

I've like the way they witter on in their help files about how wonderful the
world server is- how little bandwidth and disk space it takes up, even for a
big world, then charge a ridiculous amount for hosting your world for you.
My world won't be hosted by them, unless I win the lottery!


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Dec 26, 1998, 7:15pm

if you win the lottery, set up a world hosting service yourself for prices
you consider reasonable, to help other ppl who didn't win the lottery :-)

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