Comments on: Boonex – bad programming example

By: Giedrius

Giedrius — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:27:00 +0000

Ted : Everyone loves software that is fast to launch till they have to do something more than mediocre (one of many) website.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:10 +0000

It’s funny how the above complaints should also apply to the stinking pile of spaghetti code called MAGENTO, yet everyone loves magento.

By: Giedrius

Giedrius — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:55:39 +0000

Thanks, it is possible I’ll check it out, though we are working on our in-house solution.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:56:42 +0000

Dolphin 7 differs from previous versions. It is modular and secure. There are a lot of speed improvements in it also.

By: Giedrius

Giedrius — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:10:13 +0000

Alex : Depends how far other aspects of site need to be developed.
Drupal would be quite good choice as long as your are satisfied with options it provides. There are Elgg (which has better code structure than boonex), though I fear it might have performance problems for custom content types. There are far more choices as long as you look for frameworks rather than CMS’es.
We work on in-house solution for niche social sites we own, that is not for public use.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:00:40 +0000

I’m trying to get a Boonex website up and running and I have some issues with that.
I also see from other people that Dolphin 7 in the long term is not a good choice.

Now my question is: since I want to build a website based on events what would a good alternative be?

Thanks

By: First results: Social network or collaboration platform? « Rainer Wanner

First results: Social network or collaboration platform? « Rainer Wanner — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:08:26 +0000

[...] dolphin: The templates and some other modification were really hard. Mostly it requires changes on different parts of the software or an additional budget to buy paid mods. I just found a comment describing the same issues. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:51:23 +0000

I had a bad feeling after intalling the script on our server & have since read many posts like yours warning users about Boonex Dolphin. Our suspicions arose after logging in to their website which full of broken links & no communication channels. Pity we only found this out after going through the whole installation process

By: ben franly

ben franly — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:20:46 +0000

I love the abledating software myself after using dolphin for a long time its hard not to love anything after that horrible software that is dolphin, mentioning boonex , wow what a total scam, ive never seen anything like it in my life. The way Its leader “Andrew treats its members is terrible, even to the point now that he has turned nasty and insulting against the very many complaints now in the blogs, which are very censored to hide the truth about Boonex. Andrew lie’s all the time in the blogs to string people along with this new dolphin 7, which is now in its 8th Beta, and still no sign of it ever working, but of course Andrew says the RC is imminent, then comes up with some excuse to why it hasnt been released yet. long standing members are leaving Boonex because experienced users can see there is something really wrong with the software and company ethics…. but hey hoo, thats up to them .im only glad im out of it myself, Horrible software, well it is unless you want to fix bugs for the rest of your life and lose your hair in the process, and people pay money for that rubbish, amazing…

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:47:51 +0000

Great post Giedrius. I wish I had found it sooner. I too have a boonex site as the framework and have been battling a few big problems. We have just about got everything fixed up but I still could use some help on finding a few people that have had more experience cleaning up Dolphin’s mess. Mainly the DB issues. I’d like to contact you.
hmmm…
I’ll try your twitter

By: How to make really unsafe session management (that is still used today) – Giedrius Majauskas blog

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:03:36 +0000

[...] really unproductive topic – that is how to code poorly. Or, more exactly, I am going to pick on my unfavorite piece of social site again, that is Boonex. We will talk about how one should not implement user sessions and how to do it [...]

By: John

John — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:19:24 +0000

Thanks Giedrius! I am seeing “scam” posting almost everywhere when googling for “abledating”. When I tested their demo, it seems the fastest among others. Take care.

By: Giedrius

Giedrius — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:31:38 +0000

Had installed abledating somewhere, however haven’t worked with its code much. They provide additional services as well, for example custom skinning of the software, or fake profiles Not my cup of tea, as these profiles look really fake.
Haven’t tried others yet, though will probably do so First one will be buddypress probably (based on wordpress).

By: John

John — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:04:48 +0000

Thank you Giedrius! Boonex is heavily pushing their upcoming 7.0. Hopefully it will not just another hype from the owner. I read his interview and hope his software will do what he promised. As of now, it looks like a piece of broken car with good painting all over the exterior.

If I may ask you. My client is looking at AbleDating, Dzoic handshakes, eMeeting. Could you please give me your 2 cents on the mentioned? Take care.

By: Giedrius

Giedrius — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:27:57 +0000

We still use boonex “framework” if one could call it so, and it is a temporally solution. Haven’t seen fresh boonex code, but if there is no major rewrite from scratch, it sucks. The main issues we faced are database overhead while loading configuration, inefficient queries, multiple re-queries of same things during same page load, templating system that poorly separates code from presentation (what would be its main purpose), no caching, using completely different technology for forum, etc. Also, we need quite specific things that weren’t implemented in boonex at all.
About boonex security… As this article mentions boonex, I get daily worm attacks to my blog that try out typical boonex exploits to hack in and compromise server. Boonex is famous for its XSS vulnerabilities.

By: John

John — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:03:49 +0000

you mentioned the code has to be changed completely for now. Does that mean you had to rewrite Boonex? Please let me know if you encountered any security issues with Boonex?

What do you think about their upcoming version 7.0