• 64 Posts
  • 1.44K Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

help-circle

  • Yes, prestashop is faster than Woocommerce. I manage two e-commerce with both. But while with Woocommerce all I needed extra was a $15/lifetime stock synchronization plugin, with prestashop I would need $100/month of plugins to have feature parity. So I keep prestashop basic as an simpler store under a different domain that doesn’t need stock synchronization or mass import or blog.

    Odoo, I loved it at first sight when I tried the 30 day trial 5 years ago. So much snappier than Woocommerce, and with so many features. Its main problem was price and complexity. Official hosted version required a subscription for every single feature. Invoices? That’s $19/month. List of clients? Another $19/month. Blog? Add $19/month. For the tiniest extra feature, needed a subscription. In the end the full package was completely unaffordable and the bare minimum was unusable. The free self hosted version is the most complex install that I had to do in my life. I installed a third party plugin and I broke it beyond recovery. Because it’s in python it requires a dedicated server and not a normal hosting. Unless you’re a Linux guru you have to pay for their hosting service. Luckily recently they realized that their pricing was unaffordable for everyone except huge corporations, so now the full package is around $20 per month.


  • I feel that’s even worse than Woocommerce in that regard. There was a reason it was forked as thirty bees: v1.7 broke almost all the plugins and had a very slow adoption rate, and plugin developers continued to target 1.6 as it was more popular. The situation stalled for years

    Edit: but as a e-commerce is faster than Woocommerce

    Maybe, a good alternative that offers everything while also being fast is odoo. But you need to pay for their service, as the free version is very difficult to install and maintain











  • Well, while I don’t understand their stubbornness of supporting Google drive, (Google restricts it so much? Ok then just remove it and blame Google. Replace with Dropbox/WebDAV/ftp/whatever) IMHO they’re right about the piracy. Years ago I tried to be an app developer for Android and iOS and I personally experienced that iOS users are willing to pay for everything. The in-app purchase to remove ads on iOS was bought by many, while on Google play literally a single person got it. Maybe it can be simply that because iPhones are 5x more expensive than the average Android (in my country there are no carrier locking and no carrier discounts at all), then users are wealthy or they’re adult workers, while kids and students get the cheaper Android phones.

    I closed both dev accounts years ago and now I’m android user. As an user, I simply cannot imagine paying $5 on Android for a glorified text editor with all the free alternatives that are available. Maybe android users are cost conscious?

    This is the top 10 most sold apps in my country:

    1. Game Booster 4x Faster Pro (users tricked by deceptive ads)
    2. e-Connect (an app to manage a specific home security system)
    3. Threema
    4. Obd torque pro
    5. IPTV extreme pro (used by pirates that want to watch soccer)
    6. Peakfinder
    7. Metronet (an app graphically identical to e-connect but with a different icon and name)
    8. Analog Rolex Royal Watch face (with obvious trademark infringement but of course Google doesn’t care)
    9. Tasker
    10. Nova launcher prime

    Now, this is definitely alarming.

    A smartwatch watchface is the #8 most sold app in a country with 30 million android users???

    #2 and #7 have a combined download count of 20k! And are in the top 10???

    Peakfinder is the #6??? How many people in October are trekking so much that they need to know which mountain are watching???

    Tasker and nova launcher?? Yes I also bought those two apps but are for power users, the 1% of users.







  • Well, they don’t appear to use them as propaganda. When Travis T. King crossed the border, they arrested him and not used as propaganda “see? He hated SK and USA so much”

    Same for Otto warmbier, instead of “see? After he saw our wonderful country, he wanted to take a piece of propaganda back home to always remember us” he was arrested, tortured and sent back dead.

    I do not recall any situation when they used something like this as positive propaganda instead of a public execution

    When they did that experiment on YouTube showing how wonderful is life in north Korea (if you’re a daughter of the elite), it lasted until it suddenly went like “Winston Smith never existed”