No wonder developers charge so much...

[frm]

This simple little button took me 8 hours to finish, from start to finish on a dev, ensuring it installs and uninstalls right, to backing up the live instance and installing it there.

It's an add on that, on install, creates the navigation button. The button has extra.less edits applied on install to make it green.

When it's clicked, it randomly selects a (non-mature) site and redirects the user there.

I might make modifications to it as I built it in two ways: One uses the XF template system with a JavaScript redirect, and the other just redirects, which is the method I decided on using. As far as those modifications may go, it would probably open a new window with an "iframe" to still be on the webpage and the forum below it, but I'm unsure if those are even used anymore or if mobile would have a good user experience. It's something that I may look into. But for now, I'm beat.

This would've probably taken an experienced developer no longer than 10 minutes to accomplish. Hopefully, I'll be there one day, or quicker to it, as I may not always have someone to get to an issue right away and have to fall back on myself with 25 forums to manage.



...they're charging for those 8 hours they put in to learning how to do it in 10 minutes...

 

[frm]

Shower thoughts before going to bed... I wouldn't like the element of surprise of going to a random website immediately.

So, I modified it to go to a random listing instead (it was set up that way before so all I had to do was comment out 2 lines and uncomment 2 others).

 

[Cedric]

Honestly, if anything they're undercharging.

 

[frm]

Honestly, if anything they're undercharging.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Honestly, if anything they're undercharging.

That's probably right.

And over the years, what has discouraged me from learning to develop for others, is the way consumers treat developers.

The "I only use free stuff" are the worst ones. They demand you give them every feature they want but are not willing to pay and many of them whine if you put a credit link on the footer.

That ruined me!

 

[Cedric]

That's probably right.

And over the years, what has discouraged me from learning to develop for others, is the way consumers treat developers.

The "I only use free stuff" are the worst ones. They demand you give them every feature they want but are not willing to pay and many of them whine if you put a credit link on the footer.

That ruined me!

Or they'll get it from nulled websites.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Or they'll get it from nulled websites.

I've seen a lot of that, too. And they'll try to justify it, as well.