Posts Tagged ‘hotscripts’

I ran into this the other day while browsing Scripts.com, which is much better than Hotscripts, because they have filters for the scripts so you can view only free ones or high ranking ones. The only problem is that it does that using POST (no bookmarkable filters) and resets your filter on each page load.

Anyway, back to the flat file based WordPress, it’s called Dayfox. This should be lighter weight and faster than regular WP, but its still in beta.

In case your not sure what flat file based means, it means they use text files to hold the data, rather than a real database like MySQL.

HotScript’s Advanced Search sucks. I emailed them about two years ago suggesting the ability to select languages, last release date, license, whether it is free and by ratings. Maybe its just one person handling the site but as long as its been around, it should of been done by now. Sure there are lots of abandoned projects and some really hacky scripts on their but there are quite a few gems also. I’m guessing that maybe they thought it might hurt page views or make it harder to sell their featured scripts slots. Personally I think it would increase the use of the site. The ratings vary too, non-registered users get seperate ratings than registered users, possibly to prevent someone gaming the system.