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Complaint Review: Freebasic.net - none Iowa

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  • Reported By: wearehumanspleaselove — greenville North Carolina
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Freebasic.net freebasic I've spent years learning this language & now, for no reason, they locked me out of their forums. I cannot even use any of their forum's sourcecode examples. The sourcecode now has unusable symbols in them that has been added. I cannot email or contact the admins or anyone in the forums about this. Iowa

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I've spent hundreds of hours using & learning freebasic with the implied promise that I would have a great, huge base of knowledge & help to draw from, aka, the freebasic.net forums.  Choosing a programming language to devote to learning is a major investment in time & resources and part of that choice is knowing that there is a forum to draw source-code examples from & ask help from.

Recently I asked if there were any possible way to make money programming in freebasic, as one of the topics.  That's a reasonable question.  One of the users suggested a competitor's programming language, & like that, ever since, I've lost my ability to post anything to the forums or message anyone.  I also have lost the ability to copy the thousands of useful source-code examples from their forums without strange trash code inserted into the source-code that prevents it from compiling.  I've used these forums and their sourecode snippets for years and this has never happened until that one day I got locked out.  I want to know exactly what I did to deserve this.  It may have appeared that I was coluding with their competition's programming language, IDK, but I wasn't.

I cannot even post or use their sourcecode if I login w/ another username.  I can log in, but I'm censored & all their sourcecode snippets are now useless to me.  This ammounts to the wasting and trashing of hundreds of hours I've spent investing in learning the freebasic compiler & language.  I love that language.  It's beautiful & well made, but, I cannot endorse it because ultimately, now, it is unusable, and I don't even know what I did to deserve this, & I was never even informed of my downgraded user account.  Ive tried contacting several different members of the community but they all get returned as undeliverable.  I've tried: admin@freebasic.net, sysop@freebasic.net, and cha0s@freebasic.net.  

Something about this community is no longer legit.  I recommend anyone considering learning this programming language to try a different one. 

http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=21746

The above post is my last post to the forum.  The wierd part is, after asking how I could make money in freebasic, many posts are made & then Pritchard, a guru-status user w/ over 5000 posts says:

Postby Pritchard » Dec 11, 2013 15:43

Yes, but why would you want to?

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That was the last thing posted ot my thread & ever since then I've been unable to make new posts, replys or even use the sourcecode repository.  Why would anyone want to make money?  What kind of a weird reply is that to make right before shutting a user's ability to respond?  That's like that momen in the movie "The Matrix" right before they took away Neo's mouth.  That's fricin creepy.  Freebasic is creepytown now.  I'd highly recommend avoiding it, lest you end up how I did, hundreds of hours wasted - & for what?  No warning, just bam, 100s of hours wasted, & probably more like 1000s.  Thats being conservative.

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Concerning the sourcecode examples

AUTHOR: sir_mud - ()

POSTED: Saturday, February 08, 2014

I just wanted to add that the issue with the source code shown on the forum is well known and is simply a formatting error where some HTML entities are not being decoded properly. A "fix" is provided on the forum.

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AUTHOR: sir_mud - ()

POSTED: Saturday, February 08, 2014

Hello, I am one of the FreeBASIC compiler project members. I've dug into your issue a little and we can't find you on the forum's banned list so we're not sure why you're not able to post to the forum. As for the comments by a member of the community, please remember our community is made up of many individuals with many opinions and those don't necessarily reflect the opinions of the development team or forum staff. I would love to help you figure out why you are not able to post to the forums,

if you could join me in the ##freebasic IRC channel on Freenode or you can go to http://freebasic.net/chat and it will connect you to the IRC channel. Please note this is an open source project and we all do this in our spare time so it may take a couple minutes before we reply so your patience is appreciated. Thank you for dedicating yourself to FreeBASIC for so long. You asked how you could make money with it, the answer to your question is the same as with anything else, through hard work, dedication and proving that YOU are the right person for the job.

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