Congratulations :)
Although I really don't like auto-installers I'm sure it will help ElkArte to find new users :)
This is great news and great for ElkArte.
Being a web host, I was one hoping to see this day.
I also had seen this a couple days ago, but left it to be announced by
@emanuele or
@TE.
Congrats and I left reviews the other day, but not seeing them yet, so guess waiting on approvals.
Congrats, it is a great addition. Many will start using it now.
I wrote a review :)
Awesome Team !! Congrats.
Just gave a 5 Star rating.
Gave 5 stars as well, although their captcha is one of the most annoying I've ever seen, the letters just happen to overlap with the strips so you can't tell which one belongs to the stripe and... Meh :/
Also wrote a review but I see none being published...?
Reviews need to be approved...
Maybe by Softaculous, maybe by whoever submitted ElkArte to them.
I know, but it's been a long while now.
I had also seen the presence of ElkArte in Softaculous. Was excited to see it there but suspected it hadn't been announced yet.
Sure enough, looky here, this thread! :P
As another web-host, I'm glad to see ElkArte getting better visibility through Softaculous!
@emanuele you may want to have a word with them now, it's been a month and no reviews. Not quite acceptable, if you ask me.
Well, it's been a month and we didn't put the link on the home page... :P
Considering the latest published review I could find with a quick sampling of the software is dated October 2015, I wouldn't be surprised if the feature was either disabled or not taken care of at all.
Are you talking about the Reviews feature on the Softaculous page? On my host, the Reviews is available and reviews can be made. There are 15 five star ratings with no verbiage. That usually does not look good to potential users, at least those that have experience reasoning out 'reviews'.
I found one review from October of 2015 and this Linux install article...
Elkarte Linux Install (https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-elkarte-community-forum-on-ubuntu-14-04/)
The issues folks are describing is that reviews have been submitted but have not shown up, only the rating has been recorded :( . It may or may not look bad, but not much anyone can do if the reviews are not being posted.
Had not seen the linux install instructions, very cool ! Don't know who took the time to write those up but thanks!
My reading comprehension must be slipping today...maybe most days. IDK.
I just made a review; darn shame it can only be 500 characters. Wonder if it will get approved or not; what with approval seeming to be the hold up. Apparently no one has been tasked to read the Elkarte reviews.
Regarding the Linux install; maybe someone here can verify the instructions work and then post them here for potential new users of Elkarte?
That's why I suggested to have a word with Softaculous guys...
This might just be a cPanel issue. If you go to Softaculous you can pull up Elkarte and leave a review. What is interesting is that their interface sees the 16 star ratings. I left a review and after entering the magic letters and doing a submit I was presented with a a success banner. That is a banner you do not get when submitting via cPanel.
Softaculous - Elkarte (http://www.softaculous.com/review/ElkArte)
Of course, now I have to wait for review approval I suppose.
Not sure how I can explain to you xD It's the APPROVAL being the problem (doesn't happen), all the rest is fine.
@Lou thanks for taking the time to submit a review ... Hoping it gets posted, could be cpanel vs website submittable, be interesting to see.
I'll take a look at the install instructions and see if I see anything .. I do use ubuntu but not Apache so can only cover so much.
Oh .... I do understand that the issue is approval. However, what I showed there is a difference between the cPanel Softaculous process and the parent Softaculous process. Something is missing in cPanel.
Now, it may be a cPanel issue or it may be a Softaculous issue. No one knows. As no one indicated they had made a road trip to Softaculous to test on their site, I took the opportunity to do so. Now emanuele has a bit more information to go to Softaculous with.
You are welcome Spuds. Reviews are important and I too am puzzled why they are not making it into the mix. I would pursue this with Softaculous for you guys but that is far, far out of my authority range. :) I will be watching the Softaculous site to see if they publish the review.
I will guess the pipe is broken, in my case, between cPanel and Sotfaculous site. I say that as the review I entered via cPanel, that review is still sitting in the review editor, title and all. The submit button really does not send the data anywhere so I will guess that cPanel/Soft holds onto the info at my server level as it does not know what to do with it.
No idea how this would behave on other hosts that use different tools.
For some reason, I do not think Softaculous is doing the approving of the reviews.
That is separate from their rating system, in a sense.
Ratings do not need to be approved, but reviews do.
I'm not entirely certain on how they do it, or if whoever submitted ElkArte to them does it.
It's surely not something that can be moderated by Elkarte devs, it would be stupid.
Sometimes though, in some instances that is the case. A 'star' rating is not personally directed at someone as much as it is a silent opinion. A written review can be directed to someone personally or contain violent, false information. Often the written reviews, on some systems are parsed by software looking for key words that indicate a foul mouth, angry review. That is then passed on to a human moderator who then reads and deletes the review. Softaculous could even have the review come to Elkarte to approve or disapprove the review. Truthful, observational reviews are what is best for Elkarte. A review that is spewing vitriol should be deleted.
Not talking about that, it would be stupid to have Elkarte devs moderating the reviews because of commercial reasons, of course... (aka, deleting negatives).
Actually, it would make more sense, for the devs of each program to moderate their own reviews.
Why should Softaculous deal with moderation on all programs?
Look at Google Play, and other app places, the devs are the ones to moderate the reviews, so why not Softaculous?
Also, IMHO, the devs of each script should be the ONLY people to be able to submit the scripts, in the first place.
Which is why Google Play is complete and utter bs. I found myself politely but negatively rating a few applications, and my reviews got deleted, SEVERAL TIMES. I even contacted google about it, and the operator just told me to contact the guys who own the application, as the page is theirs, what a ****ing trolly and fake system.
Yes, you got a nerve there, one of the many many things that don't work at all on the net, but also one that got me quite angry, too.
Actually, I do not see a DELETE on app reviews, so you are quite mistaken in that they got deleted by the app developer.
It's up to the app developer only, to reply, it seems.
I have proofs otherwise, as per the argument on skype, the discussion to me ends here, goodnight.
http://www.androidcentral.com/no-developers-cant-delete-your-app-review
There's added proof that developers can not delete app reviews.
All we can do, is reply to them.
You, Ninja, only have the word from what you claim is a Google Employee.
I however, would not put too much stock in that, as I too, have dealt with Google Employees, that do not even know half of what Google does.
Ndr: discussion carried on on Skype and well, I still disagree. Had not less than 10 reviews deleted so far, that were perfectly following google rules. I agree to disagree on this one.
LOL
Softaculous (or was it its competitor, the name of which I forgot) was actually really, really helpful to me a few years ago when deciding which forum to choose. I only had to install a couple of forum scripts by hand to check them out.