by db519 » 09/29/2012
All the more reason to seriously invest in the development of a bug reporting system, instead of cutting short with the "quick in-and-out" mentality of a laughable PHPBB user forum. All of this, but instead; absolutely the first priority in the early stages of any software development project . . . How long has DV been "in development", by the way?
Are you looking at the big picture here, Fongo? Do you want long term, Fongo? If you are looking to make quick cash and duck out, just say so. Or at least play dumb, and try to act long term with your end-users. . . To me, attracting long term end-users will never be made a reality by forcing busy, everyday people like me in into writing a book on your forum just so that I know my phone simply functions properly, and that I can be "on-call", just like every other Canadian I know (non-mobile VOIP users, mind you, they pay thou$and$ per fiscal year for service, as we all should know).
Fongo needs to listen up fast . . . Else be buried in the cemetery of the dead software projects. You're making all the right (wrong?) mistakes . . . Fongo needs to budget more on coding than they are budgeting on graphic designers; contact list integration means more to me (the every day user) than social media integration because my phone book is one of the most important things in my life, and I keep it backed and synced up on my hard disk weekly; Facebook could go under tomorrow, never trusted Zuckerberg from day one. Did I ever give him a dime? No. Did all of my friends and family give him plenty of equity through potential off-shore server hosting deals that we don't know about? No- well, maybe not. But it's not out of the question!
Fongo: Should I trust you with a phone number that I want to keep for life? The answer is: NOT YET. Which is why I have not purchased your "SIP" package, nor set up all my friends and family on your service, if you were wondering.
I truly stand by all of my statements, and could go on and on with more suggestions and feedback, leaving the "R&D team" (?) pissed off (?) at me for "not following the chain of command" when at the end of the day, all I'm trying to do is drop hints to make this company succeed, turn a profit, and help out end users simultaneously. . . . by the way, just wondering, for kicks; does Fongo pay you, Mike? . . .As an "L3 Support Specialist"? Never heard anyone with that title before. . .
Do I hear cries of mutiny in the mod-only section (well, now officially in the "Suggestions and Feedback".. thanks for that one, Hardy, I needed it to actually work up the energy and motivation to write this post. Seriously though, c'mon, "beginning to break"!? These apps were DOA, buddy. No denying that); as well as sounds of eyelids opening?
Surely, I'm not the only one catching onto these things...that would make me a blind man if I was wrong, no? Possibly. . . I'm the only person registered on this forum educated enough, combined with having enough time on my hands at this very moment, to realize and voice my opinion these sort of things? I definitely hope you do, Mr. President of Fibernetics (; that is- if you want to be taken seriously, while taking in the big bucks. I recommend you print this post, well let's not be greedy: actually make it this whole topic, no make it this entire forum. Print off every day page, and read it aloud line for line at your next board meeting, without a single break; I dare you.
PS, should this post, or any of my posts ever be edited, deleted, or shall I ever get banned due to my opinion; The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been officially been voided by Fongo, and thus I will boycott the company until the day I die.
PPS. You know what I really, truly wanna suggest to all you reading this? Dell Voice work over an SSL connection, and be able to route through Tor properly. (Orbot for rooted Droids, which everyone should have; Mobile Tor by w00t for jailbroken iPhone users, which everyone should have). This helps majorly with Dell Voice expanding onto public Wifi networks that would normally do things like block ports, etc. Although not a *cough* Tunnel service (which I shouldn't go into due to earlier flame threads), it still sometimes "punches through the holes" like Skype is able to, WITHOUT depending on something like Skype's flawed infrastructure, which is known to be completely broken anyway.