Comments on: development slowing down

By: squeller

squeller — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:55:44 +0000

“Another interesting thing I’ve found, the number of reply in the forum is based on 2 things:
1. is it a ui component?
2. is the thread owner a moderator?”

OK, I didn’t recognize #1, but on 2: See the replies on foo_dsp_vst. This opens a whole new world, but people didn’t see this. As an opposite, see foo_uie_pm, the peakmeter. Lots of answers and demandings.
Maybe this is why peter left, it’s not his world afair…

By: squeller

squeller — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:48:10 +0000

The sad truth is, if there wasn’t the UI discussions and your plugin development, fb2k core and 3rd party development is dying. Peter has in fact disappeared, it’s unknown if fb2k is developed currently. There’s only foosion, the loyal knight

People still have thousands of good ideas, but get sick of telling because of no response. There are some even very tiny things which got worse with 0.9, but there’s no one to fix…

By: Acropolis

Acropolis — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:47:06 +0000

I think the ui interface is in fact very important, if the player looks too ugly, pretty much will affect your interest of using it. therefore I will customise it, but only 1 or 2 times a year.

it seems a lot of people claiming loving fb2k either because of its better quality or flexibility against other players, while from the number of reply of some specific ui related post in the forum.. it is pathetic.
I never understand why some ui specific components will dominate the whole 3rd party component forum according to their claims.

that’s why I’ve already started to code components just based on my needs, because most people just care about ui, but I would more care about practical things.

another interesting thing I’ve found, the number of reply in the forum is based on 2 things:
1. is it a ui component?
2. is the thread owner a moderator?

if you look carefully, you will notice too I think

btw, I think development may be back in august.

By: Odyssey

Odyssey — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:23:42 +0000

I never understood why these people don’t just make Winamp themes instead. I would not for anything give up the great functionality that foobar and all your components offer.

By: Squeller

Squeller — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:42:32 +0000

BTW no one knows if the player development already stopped. FB2K: 99% of the community is all about look and feel and the domestication of the complicated panels ui.

By: Squeller

Squeller — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:40:25 +0000

In short: Thanks for letting us know! This is the complete opposite attitude from the black box author of fb2k, who tells exactly nothing. No one knows if he even exists. Maybe he’s just a delusion