Since you decided to hide my post..
So i decided to make the same bot with selenium and OperaDriver..
Java -
Notice the difference in speed? This is running on a laptop.. it has full cookie support, loads a file to go through accounts, also has one additional task in comparison to the botchief one (Change language). Took roughly 4 hours to make..
BotChief -
Notice the speed here.. This is running on an AMD FX 8350... While its certainly easier to design a bot, the constant crashing, error messages, and lack of detailed documentation/custom support made this take roughly 18 hours to make. I wonder if the lack of support is due to a language barrier when it comes to communicating to their customer base ? I've asked a refund, because the results are clear, but they intend to try and fix the issues. If they can ill be very happy, but its highly unlikely to do in 30 days since they have had 4-5 years to work on the service....
First of all, the technology used between your own bot and botchief is different. Geckofx implements the browser itself slower than the webdriver-driven browser.
In addition, most of the users of botchief do not know the programming language, they can not use their programming language to do their own bot. In order to convenient them to use botchief to be their own bot, we have implemented a lot of logic and functions that are easy for users to understand in botchief, which is far more time and effort than writing a bot with java alone. It is a very complicated tool software.
Of course, we have to admit that some functions in the software are not doing well, but we will continue to optimize and update.
First of all, the technology used between your own bot and botchief is different. Geckofx implements the browser itself slower than the webdriver-driven browser.
In addition, most of the users of botchief do not know the programming language, they can not use their programming language to do their own bot. In order to convenient them to use botchief to be their own bot, we have implemented a lot of logic and functions that are easy for users to understand in botchief, which is far more time and effort than writing a bot with java alone. It is a very complicated tool software.
Of course, we have to admit that some functions in the software are not doing well, but we will continue to optimize and update.
I completely agree with your opinion. All that you said in two posts is true. I have been hearing the same thing for five years. They need to change something dramatically.
They still have people who hope for change. But there are no changes and the situation is not improving.