WinMx ignore their users

[Power Penguin]

I know WinMx doesn't feature Ads in the program and have no money, but they really should have some way to contact them on their site.

It's bad for us. Perhaps if they took user's opinions into account the program would be shaped into something more people want to use.

Have you ever wanted to tell them it's about as attractive as as a old style DOS console?

[jabba|xtra]

wINMX is fine. Every button is labeled, and if you can read, and you can click, the buttons are usable. You dont need HUGE ROUND PRETTY buttons. Winmx does it plain and simple, and it works just fine. I dont need all sorts of fancy graphics and extra gui features that knock down performance, I need a program that runs well and does what it says, and winmx does that perfectly.

[jabba|xtra]

and they dont ignore thier users. If you participate inthe beta test, theres an email there. Thats when they want the feature requests, when theyre testing. So take part in the next beta test and let them know what you think.

[Power Penguin]

You don't get my point. If WinMx looked better, and easier to use, more people would use it. That's good for results.

[TC75580]

It might be true that it alienates some people... but who says we need those 56k leeches anyway!

[jabba|xtra]

Um, well, theres already a lot of people using winmx. Its the 2nd largest network. (fasttrack has the most users). i belive the last time they did an ip count they got something like 1.5 million different ip's, so you know theres a lot of users on there.

Im 56k, and i dont leech. I share 3 gigs of stuff. Most leeches ive run into are broadband users. But either way leeches are bad.

[Power Penguin]

Those columns when you do a search look like a DOS accountancy program. I keep expecting to see "Gross" and "Net" at the bottom of the listing.

Do you need all that info? I only ever use Status/Server.

If they ditched all but File (very handy), Bytes (good for spotting fakes), User (so you can say, "Please Colin can I go up the cue") Bit-Rate (for those pressing quality decisions - I hate having to hover in Kazaa) and Status/Server(see below for reason) I woudn't complain.

Green available, so pick the most users. Red unavailable - so pick with least in queue. I don't wanna freakin' Ping people.

[Crazy Horse]

Besides it keeps the mentally & socially challenged using the other p2p programs that we don't use. Some of you know which one's I'm talking about.

[Filippo]

I think that WinMX need an official forum like BearShare, Shareaza, eDonkey etc.. with:
- General Discussion
- Feature Requests
- Resolving Problems (Help)
WinMX doesn't have a community, i think this could help so much the developers..
:mellow

[doofynz]

winmx is the way of the future

[adrian15]

I hope this helps:

http://www.winmxcommunity.com

It's a kind of winmx community. They use a forum. The only drawback that I find is that you have to register to post in their forums. Other way is fine.

What do you think about this forum? Is it a real alternative?

I ask it because I am studying putting a link in my webpage to a WINMX FORUM. I don't know which one to choose Zeropaid one or WinmxCommunity one.

(There's also the alt.mp3.winmx group but I don't think most people use it.)

About Winmx appeareance:I think they should implement a simple interface as Kazaa, but with just clicking a button switch to classical interface which is ideal for advanced users.

[henkjanj]

Adrian,

I advise to link to zeropaid. It's much bigger.

HJ

[uglykid]

I had winmx but i uninstalled it. the progam would not work right on my pc. it would move real slow & i got broadband but it was the speed of the software that was slow i could not even scroll on it. And could not find help at the time :tol poor ugly me

[Power Penguin]

I would try WinMx again if I was you. It shouldn't run slow, it should run just fine.

[isus]

i can't vote on this subject... i have a few +'s and a few -'s about the interface. my main problem is, that it is sooo bulky. i don't mean size or ram in kb or mb, i mean, the window size and the number of buttons

i think that there are just too many options. slim out the buttons, space them out, use a nicer font then ms sans serif (altho 3.3 has an option to choose your own font :) ), and new icons and a better look would be nice. i think rounded buttons are a nice touch

[NewMilPan]

I really like the way WinMX looks.... kind of old school... even reminds me of Ripterm (i don't know if it still exists) a little... but more importantly all the functions are right there at all times and they all work, which cancels out any problem i may have had in the past with the old school look...

[Caitlyn Marble]

Originally posted by Crazy Horse
Besides it keeps the mentally & socially challenged using the other p2p programs that we don't use. Some of you know which one's I'm talking about.

Like that woman who sued starbucks cause she spilled coffee on herself and got burndt.....

[MamiyaOtaru]

WinMX is fine.. Sure it is kinda ugly, but who cares? Obviously some people in this thread, but that's not my point. It works. It is easy to tell what all the buttons do, they are nicely labelled.

I do miss the 2.6 layout, it was a bit less cluttered. Come to think of it I miss the 1.8 layout hehe. Maybe I'm just resistant to change. If the old one had 3.3s layout, and the new one had 1.8s layout, I'd miss the old (3.3 like) layout..

In other words, I'll get used to it. In the meantime, it works

[Power Penguin]

WinMx is good. But it's ugly. It's like Santa Claus in this respect.

[doofynz]

I think winmx is good. They don't muck about with there program.It wil be around longer that the crappy kazaa. People reckon that kazaa is good because they can get what they want off kazaa. When kazaa goes down they will say something else is better.

[Slyder]

i could care less about how a p2p client looks i don't need something flashy i just need something that works and i enjoy all the options that winmx has it has more options than any other p2p out there and you can customize to work the way you want it to and winmx is made for people that actually knows how to use a computer it was hard to use when i first started with it but after a lil while i figured everything out just fine and came to love it

[rangerider16]

It runs slow if you are behind a fire wall disable it and it runs fine

[uglykid]

i have no fire wall. It Just moves slow on my pc????? Kazaa,Songspy, Ares, and so no work fine. Winmx is the only one that works (Well Moves) Slow.

[goweropolis]

Try choosing secondary connection only. That may help the speed of the program. It shouldn't affect download speeds.

[alirio]

Originally posted by Filippo
I think that WinMX need an official forum like BearShare, Shareaza, eDonkey etc.. with:
- General Discussion
- Feature Requests
- Resolving Problems (Help)
WinMX doesn't have a community, i think this could help so much the developers..
:mellow
I agree with you, man that would be so awesome

Originally posted by rangerider16
It runs slow if you are behind a fire wall disable it and it runs fine
me personally I wouldn't disable my firewall since I'm on DSL, and my dl speeds on 3.3 are in the upwards 90-100K/s... :playboy

[Caitlyn Marble]

Originally posted by goweropolis
Try choosing secondary connection only. That may help the speed of the program. It shouldn't affect download speeds.

yes it will. it will increase your speeds since you aren't acting as a superpeer.

[Machete]

ATTN: All you people bitching about the interface.

Have yo uever thought to design a better interface and send your ideas to them? You know, gratis? They may not implement your UI, or they may implement some of your ideas. Or they just might go for it.

My guess is that when they first started writing WinMX they focused on the technnology and the feature-set, only giving nominal attention to the UI. As the application has matured, they've been hard-pressed just to keep up with the immense workload of implementing the bug-fixes and enhancements. Their thinking is probably "okay, the UI isn't great but its good enough for now". And they're right.

Heck, the functional code is probably intertwined with the UI and by now would require a major rewrite with serious application design. You know, the boring stuff.

[Power Penguin]

You can't make any comments cos there's no support! That's what the thread's about. Interesting that 1/3 of all users find it ugly though. Maybe that's 500,000 users put off?

[Caitlyn Marble]

Originally posted by Will Rae
You can't make any comments cos there's no support! That's what the thread's about. Interesting that 1/3 of all users find it ugly though. Maybe that's 500,000 users put off?

But you can make comments! Just wait for the next beta test, then you can send them e-mails full of suggestions, just make them sound relevant to the test.

[blady]

WinMx is good. But it's ugly. It's like Santa Claus in this respect.
Winmx reminds me of staring into a christmas tree. i see dark fields with reds blues and yellows sparkling. if it wasn't for the buttons and features, it might look inviting.
but this christmas tree has few presents. files take forever to come in. the download directory fills up with partial files, and one learns of what a "leech" is. the pretty text colors are probably the only thing worth anything in winmx.
chatters are rude and people beg for file startups. Is this app unattractive or what?!

[Whoa]

jeez Will. it seems like you're the one that keeps bashing winmx's look. Who the hell cares how it looks like? As long as it does the job.

[eclectica]

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a file was downloading, not even a wsx;
The mp3s were shared on the hard drive with care,
In hopes that someone else would share.

[simmias]

(In response to a claim that logging in with a secondary connection makes no difference with regards to d/l speed)

Originally posted by Caitlyn Marble


yes it will. it will increase your speeds since you aren't acting as a superpeer.


Is this really true? I would think that with a secondary connection you always have the potential for getting a crappy primary peer. I guess you could fix this, but you'd have to give up your queue positions and actually be in front of your computer a lot.

[Caitlyn Marble]

Is this really true? I would think that with a secondary connection you always have the potential for getting a crappy primary peer. I guess you could fix this, but you'd have to give up your queue positions and actually be in front of your computer a lot. [/B][/QUOTE]

well, yes. sometimes it happens, and then you have to fight the thing to get you onto a decent superpeer.

but if you were already downloading and not in queue, it wouldn't affect anything, unless you tried a search. Searches are painful on slow superpeers.

[sliique]

Tutorial on how to set up my own server thereon, I'd LOVE to have it!

Feel free to email me at: wayne7345@hotmail.com

TIA!!

[goweropolis]

Tutorial on how to set up my own server thereon, I'd LOVE to have it!You can't set up a server for WinMX because it's decentralized. The best you can do is pick primary connection. Why do you want to set up a WinMX server?

You can set up your own OpenNap server if you want, but I'll let someone else answer that because I've never tried doing that.

[Caitlyn Marble]

He needs to pm huize, he knows a lot about that stuff.

[sliique]

Open Nap...

[rutrow]

Originally posted by Whoa
Who the hell cares how it looks like? As long as it does the job.
Yeah.... That's pretty much how I feel.

The interface is dated and somewhat cumbersome, but gets the job done.