farkedup

Those 2 systems have set a decent bar for importing sponsored videos. TEVS has the kind of interface that dummies can quickly pop in and handle. Simplicity comes at the expense of features.

If nubiles drastically overhauled both the frontend and the admin interfaces it would be one hell of a script. As is nubiles has a fairly steep learning curve and the frontend interface doesn't take advantages of the features it has behind the scenes.


Nubiles
+ Free
+ More features
+ Fast imports
+ Auto categorizes/tags videos
+ CSS
+ Imports faster than TEVS
- More work to import
- Poor interface for both the frontend and admin

TEVS
+ Very simple admin
+ clean frontend interface
+ fewer fields in import
+ Proven track record to hold up to high traffic levels
- Manual tagging/categorization sucks
- WAY too expensive
- Tables... Hasn't everybody gone CSS by now?
- Gay default template (keeping a clean interface doesn't HAVE to be so 1996 layout)


I've been hired to make some things for it for a client so I've spent quite a bit of time with it these past couple of weeks... All I can say is it doesn't have many features, the admin is super basic and honestly doesn't have many features in it at all.

I've been spending quite a bit of time with the nubiles system lately and I think the nubiles system is actually a BETTER system! If nubiles had a cleaner (made for dummies) interface it would win hands down!

Is the fact that TEVS is a clean interface and allows you to import a bunch of sponsored videos EVERYTHING?

Something I've found disturbing about TEVS is having to manually tag videos with keywords. Nubiles handles this for you.

Once you get the "hang" of nubiles its imports do work faster than TEVS's

Bottom line:
Neither of these scripts should be called TUBE scripts, they are damn fine MGP CMS's but nowhere near actual TUBES. Both systems have a LOT of room for improvement but I would rather spend $250 on templating and customizing nubiles instead of $250 + more templating TEVS.

Currently there simply is NOT a great option on the market for anybody wanting to focus on sponsored videos.

proposed solution:
Portable sponsor import system ;)

STXT's XML format for sponsors is the only reasonable solution out there (Mr Yellows project is DEAD). We need to seriously band together and DEMAND all the big sponsors support this.

Although I have a tube system that I have coded myself there are simply more feature packed TUBES out there. Some of them have so many features I could work 8 hour days for a full MONTH just to catch up to them. I simply don't feel like doing this right now.

I am working on a "portable" sponsor import system I'm taking all the feeds I can get my hands on and I'm coding something that will be able to easily be plugged into ANY tube script. Now you'll be able to actually look at ALL of the scripts out there and not make your decision solely on the VERY few that offer sponsored video imports.

ETA: First rev will ONLY support my script and will be available within the next couple days. Will be offering up a version with support for at least one free tube hopefully by the end of this weekend.

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