External Vote Button Has Been Taken Hostage!
We’ve been driven to the brink of insanity, and we’re starting to take hostages! Our first victim is the External Vote Button (EVB), a module for Pligg that allows you to embed a JavaScript button on third party websites where members of your site can see how many votes an article from an external website has received and cast their own vote. The button is also used to speed up the submission process and makes submitting new stories to your site easier by automating part of the process.
We’ve taken this feature hostage because it’s been a while since our last donation drive, and we’re desperate for the money. So desperate that we might pull the trigger and kill this feature, or at least put it for sale in the Pligg Pro shop in the near future. If we don’t receive $200 worth of donations soon we’ll go bonkers and make this a premium-only feature. Don’t make us do it man!
Whatever you do, don’t call the cops! We don’t want this getting messy. Now hurry up and send us some cash in small unmarked Paypal credits.
If you haven’t noticed already, we are now using the External Vote Button on all of the Pligg.com blog posts. The button appears on the top left of all stories. If you are logged in to the Pligg Demo, you can vote on that article. More information regarding the new module will be coming out in the next few days. If you make a donation of $10 or more before October 29th while logged into a Pligg.com account you will receive the module for free.
October 14th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Nice! But honestly I would prefer to make you a donation to finish the automatic karma update.
Any news about that?
October 14th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
The Karma module has already been completed, it’s just awaiting the next release of Pligg. So I guess that means I can look forward to your donation?
October 15th, 2010 at 2:25 am
Hey Hey… Guys get a grip on yourselves…. Dont freak out…EVB is so innocent and young.. He’s seen nothing. Dont do that.
October 15th, 2010 at 4:50 am
done donating. waiting for the news. thanks.
October 15th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Great news Eric :) As soon as i put my hands on the Karma module you can count on that. I’m waiting for it to promote a contest on a pligg based website that is not yet online ;) I want to promote the new site with that contest.
October 16th, 2010 at 1:55 am
Nice news, ass soon as i put my hands on the EVB, if works perfect i am going to donate my 2 moths of adsense to pligg! i give you my word :)
October 17th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
I already have this module working on my 1.1.1 Pligg site, what is the problem?
October 18th, 2010 at 3:20 am
The EVB module has been rewritten from scratch. It includes a number of new features and improvements which will be detailed in a future blog post.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
cool, karma and evb, cant wait for next release, you will get my donation for sure :-D
October 19th, 2010 at 10:20 am
already i made my donation ;) i cant wait!
October 19th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
when you going to release the EVB for donors?
Thanks for answer
October 20th, 2010 at 5:22 am
If you would make the EVB a priority and get it working quickly, I’d be willing to chip in $200 by myself, I have actually been thinking about paying someone to do it for me since I consider it total insanity NOT to have this as a standard feature.
Do you have any deadlines on this? Give me some more info, and I just might pull out my VISA…
October 21st, 2010 at 4:53 am
Donated 10$!
October 21st, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Eric
So which means member (or anyone) of my pligg site can put this EVB on their sites (blogs) just like FB share and Digg?
Regards
October 22nd, 2010 at 2:53 pm
[...] many of you know, the EVB module is currently being held hostage for a ransom of $200. So far we have made nearly half of that and I am hoping that we are on [...]
October 22nd, 2010 at 6:04 pm
done donating and waiting impatiently for EVB release:)