Sep 16, 2008

Terjegal Friendster

Shalom Obrollers. Buat kalian yang ngikutin tweet gue lewat Twitter, kalian pasti ngerasa betapa frustrasinya gue ama Friendster belakangan ini. Kalo Tuhan ngomong soal “suam-suam kuku” di Wahyu 3:16, inilah contoh kasus suam-suam kuku yang nyata dari Friendster.

1. Gue adalah salahsatu pelanggan yang bayar $50 untuk dapetin premium service dari Friendster blog yang dikelola ama TypePad. Tahu-tahu nggak ada angin nggak ada hujan, tanpa pemberitahuan, blog gue diganti secara otomatis ke Wordpress. Ada intensi yang baik di sini yaitu untuk menghemat $50 gue. Tapi ngelakuin semua itu tanpa bilang-bilang? Maboklah itu. Good intention without a good communication is still a miscommunication (Maksud baik tanpa komunikasi yang baik tetep akan menghasilkan salah paham).

2. Di dalam proses pindahan tanpa ngomong ini, gue sama sekali NGGAK bisa akses ke blog gue. Makanya jadilah gue berkomunikasi lewat comments ke kalian semua. Gue dibiarkan dalam gelap tanpa tahu apa yang akan terjadi.

3. Tuiiiing... tahu-tahu blog gue yang di TypePad udah nongol sendiri jadi Wordpress. Semua setting jadi ancur dan yang paling nyebelin, semua image gue nggak tahu ke mana? Mungkin bakal dipindahin secara otomatis juga? Tapi kok nggak ada kabarnya sampe hari ini (9/18/08)?

4. Dari dulu setiap gue pake friendster, aplikasi mereka banyak sekali problemnya. Tapi karena gue pake service premium mereka (kayak bensin... haha) maka gue tahan kefrustrasian gue. Tapi gara-gara hal ini, SUDAH CUKUP penyiksaan ini... Gue berhenti pake Friendster dan mogok pake blog mereka. Gue sekarang pake Facebook untuk social media gue. Kontak-kontak di sono yah... Friendster blog? Nggak lagi deh. Problem gue bukan ama Wordpressnya, tapi ama service mereka.

Jadi gue pindahin warung kita ke sini sekarang. Berdasarkan pengalaman gue ama Google, mereka stabil sekali dalam proses hubungan pelanggan mereka.

Gue bakal kasih pengumuman kalo alamat URL kita warungsurgawi.com udah aktif untuk bawa kita ke sini dan bukan ke Friendster blog yang dulu. Jadi kita nggak usah ganti alamat untuk inget URL warung kita.

Bro Chan

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3 comments:

Garry said...

Chan,
Kenapa ga pake wordpress aja? It’s free.
It takes minutes to install on a webhosting service yg support MySQL database.
That way, elu bisa install wordpress sendiri (wordpress.org), yg ada cuma monthly ke hosting service to the hosting company doang. You have total control of everything on your own website. Kalo mau bikin multiple blogs with multiple domain names on 1 hosting kan juga bisa.

Just my 2 cents.

Bro Chan said...

Garry, thanks for the info.

That’s actually an idea I have tried. Thing is… my niche is content creation and design. I vision a few things that needs to happen on the website. Terakhir gue nyoba pake WP 2.5 using HostGator as my hosting, I spent at least 20-25 hours trying to get the website the way I saw it in my mind. And DUDE… I need to be more proficient in HTML beyond my basic rookie skill in order to create the site the way I wanted it. And that HTML stuff is not the way my brain works. It was PAINFUL man…

So, I like WP. And I don’t mind using them ONLY IF I have someone who could help me further instead of me just trying to find my own answer in online forums. Or, until WP has evolved to have the kind of simplicity Blogger has.

Blogger so far also cannot create 100% of what I have in mind. It creates about 80% of it.

With enough proficiency in HTML using WordPress, I should be able to create 100% of what I have in mind. The thing is… with my skill at HTML right now, I only can create about 50% of it.

So 80% and 50%… I’ll take the 80% for now. Unless the three things I mentioned above changed.

1. I get a lot better at HTML
2. WP evolves simpler for the HTML-challenged people
3. I have someone who is good at HTML helping me

Yah gitu sih… It’s an internal debate and I am torn into two different directions… Thank you man.

Bro Chan

milles-christi said...

Friendster rese!….

gua punya link photo album entah ilang kemana. Blog jadi acak2an….

asli nggak professional banget….kasih notice kek sebelum rubah2…

untuk free…bt abiss kalo bayar….I feel your pain bro!

GB!