About addons on orbiterfrancophon :
Orbiterfrancophon was written by another user which has left the community and it would be very time consuming to redo it on php 5. (He was a also new to php so the code is hard to correct)
I'll probably upload only 2-3 addons to orbithangars (the most recents) and give up with the other unless someone want to help.
I'm sorry to hear about the situation Dansteph. As a downloader of your work, although I rarely made a comment upon it myself at the best of times, I want you to know that your work is somewhat insperational and is of a very high standard. Personally, I have a high level of respect as a person for you because of your level of commitement and delivery to Orbiter's community and the sim's environment.
We are as downloaders, often over expectatious, greedy and unappriciative of anothers work in our requirements to "play" in the environment. Sometimes passing little thought to what another has given over in time, effort and cost by those who are dedicated, such as yourself. We are an ungrateful breed indeed. It would be a tragic loss to our community, if we lose developers like yourself.
I do want to thank you for your work, especially for the Arrow in perticular. I wish you well, and success in whatever you decide to do. :tiphat:
A sad day for us all today
I'm not really "leaving" I'll still promote and support the community (until the very end )
I wish you the best of luck during these tough times and I hope we see more of your work in the future as you have the time and desire to work on new things.
Bonjour Dan
threads and number of downloads would indicate a high level of interest and enjoyment. On behalf of the silent majority, 1000x thank you for these addons.
Unless I'm wrong it seem to me it's not specific to Orbiter, there was a time 10-15 years ago when everyone wanted to participate to communities, writing, creating, helping. Mass internet was new, it was a time of discovering and exchange. Internet has growing and the way peoples use it has changed. The overall quality of creation have also highly improved, it's now more professional.
It's not that bad but as no one work without rewards I think we'll see less free quality production in the future.
Although I do have nice fans here and some peoples first posts were Launch MFD bug reports, I do miss some technical discussions and real cooperation that makes addons grow together, instead of competing with each other. That's not to say that I'm totally disappointed by this community, but it has changed as everything. I think that the change has something to do with young people who used to be the productive part, as us before, is now focusing on social media and entertainment, while we have grown up so much that we don't see a point in pleasing growing demands for free.
Especially that we already have jobs, that many times have resulted from showing off these free products to our employers, and still we get paid too little for our skills (me too, mate!). Therefore adult developers switch to paid products. As their user, I see no problem in buying something that eases my life and reduces my frustration. As a developer, money is something that helps you wash your tears away - if only 1 on 60 people that visited your paid product's site would have paid you some money, you'd be happy, or at least not disappointed. The money would also be enough to keep you focused on your product - you'd be happy because of it, as well as because you wouldn't have to listen to your stupid, uneducated boss, just to get some pennies, devoting your precious time to build his dream instead of your own.
All in all, I can only say that the very moment Orbiter development gets a burden to me, I'll simply stop silently.