punkinhead
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- Feb 19, 2015
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Damn. That's a bummer about FL tied to one machine. Didn't realize that. I have the same problem. It's very inefficient. If you're running a lot of accounts, you can quickly run into issues where it just kills the system or runs so slowly as to be useless. I keep having to clear out the scraped users, etc... but it's not enough. I've been thinking I need to set up a second (and maybe third) computer to spread the load. Really shitty part of it all is... if the software were more efficient, I wouldn't be in a situation where I need to run it on more machines.
It has this recurring PITA issue where very simple things are cumbersome and convoluted to pull off, and that makes it a real system killer. Take the simple case of wanting to follow back all who follow you. Simple, right? Not with FL. It requires a new instance of the software to run simultaneously with individual settings per account. You can't even copy over per acct that you want to do this... you have to go into the second instance, and type each account's name into itself... I'll stop. I'm getting pissed just thinking about how ridiculous it is. Should be a simple button (and default at that)... but it's not. There are a lot of issues with FL like this once you dig into using it for mass accts.
It has this recurring PITA issue where very simple things are cumbersome and convoluted to pull off, and that makes it a real system killer. Take the simple case of wanting to follow back all who follow you. Simple, right? Not with FL. It requires a new instance of the software to run simultaneously with individual settings per account. You can't even copy over per acct that you want to do this... you have to go into the second instance, and type each account's name into itself... I'll stop. I'm getting pissed just thinking about how ridiculous it is. Should be a simple button (and default at that)... but it's not. There are a lot of issues with FL like this once you dig into using it for mass accts.
