01-20-2021, 10:59 AM
What difference does it make if it's actively maintained or not?
I think the problem may be that nobody understands the database. This is going to be the problem with any custom CMS. Hell- it's going to be a problem with any CMS in general- for something tried and true you may at least have documentation about it, but they're much more complex than what MFGG has and you're going to spend just as much time figuring it out, if not more.
I've seen MFGG's database. It's certainly not a shining beacon of MySQL best practices (which mind you, have changed in the last 15 years anyway I'm sure) and I wouldn't recommend using the structure for whatever next, but it's certainly not Pandora's box.
If this is such a huge pain point that it's become lore that it's the most difficult piece of the puzzle, then maybe going through the database and docunenting the structure should be priority one- the advantage of that is if version 4 or 5 of this doesn't get off the ground you won't have to do it again for versions 6 and on since the database certainly isn't changing (much) as long as you guys are on taloncrossing.
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- gothgirlgangblastermaster
I think the problem may be that nobody understands the database. This is going to be the problem with any custom CMS. Hell- it's going to be a problem with any CMS in general- for something tried and true you may at least have documentation about it, but they're much more complex than what MFGG has and you're going to spend just as much time figuring it out, if not more.
I've seen MFGG's database. It's certainly not a shining beacon of MySQL best practices (which mind you, have changed in the last 15 years anyway I'm sure) and I wouldn't recommend using the structure for whatever next, but it's certainly not Pandora's box.
If this is such a huge pain point that it's become lore that it's the most difficult piece of the puzzle, then maybe going through the database and docunenting the structure should be priority one- the advantage of that is if version 4 or 5 of this doesn't get off the ground you won't have to do it again for versions 6 and on since the database certainly isn't changing (much) as long as you guys are on taloncrossing.
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""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster