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Listen, Matt, there is no way to lose an account. Hide, yes. Suppress. Lock out. Even delete. If you've ever run a database, you know this. I run and build multiple databases every week at my work. Nothing is ever lost, only transformed or removed.
Same for pics and messages. It's possible for things to appear "missing" at the front end, but if you've ever worked the back end, you know as well as I do that something which is not visible to a set class of users with controlled access only means that they don't have access.
It's easy to say a person is incompetent, because that's only an opinion, and to date you haven't backed up one statement with a presentation of facts or examples. Opinions are a dime a dozen, but facts - like what I stated above in regards to database management - those actually carry weight. If you want to make a point, why come out swinging so lightly?
Software architecture isn't constricted to applications, it's a measure of structural integrity at various levels, or in layman's terms, when I run this program will it do what I want, or what I told it to do? After all, a program is only as good as the programmer, in every language. An application is a task-based program with a purpose, but sites don't run on automated tasks alone. Then again...you knew that, right? Speaking of languages, COBOL is dead, friend. Dead like BASIC. I know both languages and wrote software in both. I do not know of any system created from scratch in this decade sporting either language, if you do by all means...enlighten me. Otherwise, you're handing out a resume that might as well tell a modern corporation that you remember Lotus 1-2-3 when they need Microsoft Office 2013. Assembler is still used for low-grade projects, and not for website construction. C is not common in North America, where the servers for this site are. Maybe C++ or a mocked-up copy of SQL, like the customized Foxpro language introduced years ago. (Do you know Foxpro? It's a pretty thing and awesome for databases. Look it up.) ABAP is over 30 years old and might - might! - still be used productively in Europe, where it was born. RPG is the spawn of COBOL that still delights card punching machines in museums, but unless you speak RPG IV, you're not really in the current scheme of things.
That, by the way, is another delightful example of presenting factual arguments, as opposed to opinionated ones.
As to how to make the site PERK and POP and shine like a freshly-oiled set of melons, well now. That's for the owner to decide as to which direction he wants to go. Remember, it's his ball, you're allowed to play here but the ball goes home with him. If he doesn't want you to write on it in marker, then don't. If you think he's a doo-doo head for taking the ball home early then by all means, but kindly remember as you are doing so what level of maturity you're functioning at.
This brings us to, ta-da! Presentation. Ever open up a program someone else wrote and think, MY GOD, who put this impossible-to-read mess together? It's unprofessional! Yes, well...the same goes for the presentation of any idea. Many former corporate executives will gladly attest to the fact that, however good your idea is, if you present it poorly then no one, and I mean no one here, will care. Now scroll back and look, really look at what you said and what reactions it got. If you really care about things, then why sabotage yourself with a poor presentation? It might feel good to vent but if you totally destroy your own message, who are you going to blame, the audience? That's like telling a person who reacts badly to spaghetti programming that it's their fault for reading it.
I hope I've managed to get across the things you needed to hear at the level you needed to hear it. I have my doubts on that, I'm frankly expecting a poor reaction. However, your reactions are your own, whatever you think of what I said does not dictate what comes out of your mouth, nor does it dictate what you type. Think on that, dude.
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