I guess anybody who didn't get invited to the M.I.L.F group is a supreme nobody!
Anyway, Simily looks to be built on top of the WordPress platform. Nothing against WordPress. It's fine as a blogger platform, but as a software developer, I wouldn't want to build an enterprise platform on it. I'd rather roll my own.
It means that some bugs they get are difficult to resolve because the issues may originate with code they have little control over, or if they do have control over, are difficult to troubleshoot because they have to hunt through core WordPress code.
I didn't dig deeply but it looks it may even be using a hosted Wordpress.org service for the site, which is probably not particularly scalable.
A lot of us may object to Amazon's grip on everything, but AWS or another cloud service is the modern way to host anything where you expect a lot of users. A cloud service, when utilized correctly, allows a web platform to spin up a new server automatically when the number of users grows beyond capacity.
If I'm right and they're not using a scalable cloud service, then that means they aren't expecting a lot of users, which makes the point of payments to writers sort of pointless. My bad for signing up for payments without peeking under the hood a bit more.
The founders have sent out emails to, I assume, all their users for a short meetup. If I got one, you did. I recommend that everyone signs up and peppers them with as many technical questions as possible.
I'd be happy to set up a group on the site focused on technical issues, as long as people will actually engage it.
I think their intentions are good. But if I'm also thinking that they made bad decisions as far as the core set up, and there is really no way to recover from that at this point.
I've run into many technical issues, also. For example, just saving a post is problematic. I've lost work already so far (luckily, just copies of existing work), which is why I've only posted three stories, and is also why I don't participate in any groups or any of their interactive features. If I can't do a basic post without frustration, why engage other users? I don't have time for that.
Thanks for writing a post that confirms my own findings.
