The new Sphider Help Forum for help concerning Sphider 1.4.2 or later is now open, at least on a trial basis. Out of necessity, ALL posts will be moderated. This is because of the tremendous amount of blog, forum, and guestbook spam present on the internet. Apologies for the inconvenience, but that’s life.
Hopefully, this forum can be used by the slowly growing community of users of the updated Sphider. The original Sphider Forum (located at sphider.eu) has become steadily less help and more sales pitch for Sphider-Plus. We have no gripe about Sphider-Plus, per se, but the original Sphider was free and just because the original developer moved on to other interests several years ago, we don’t see why the original can’t live on and evolve with the rest of technology.
The original (1.3.6 and before) has problems with anything later than PHP 5.4, and here we are, most platforms on 5.5 or 5.6 and the trend well underway towards PHP 7. Any internet technology which simply stands still for 4 to 7 years is going to become lost in the cloud of dust.
Anyway, hopefully the forum will be a better place to air problems and find solutions than blog comments.