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Interesting to hear that phplinks is buggy as shit, because that was the impression I had already gotten from studying it without installing it.
Now, as far as your other questions go:
"Free" is not an issue for me, I've got money and don't mind paying for good tools. A good tool will make you profit years after you've forgotten what it cost you.
But, as far as I can tell, every single linklist software out there has significant flaws. I hate spending money on a tool that doesn't do what I need it to do. Then I feel ripped off and pissed on. I've bought too many pieces of useless software to want to be screwed yet again.
Linkadmin is fine software, but it's barely supported anymore, if at all, and it's a bitch to modify or get modified.
Links2 costs $150, very reasonable, but out of the box it's a useless piece of shit, and you have to add mod after mod to get it to work the way an adult LL needs to work.
Haven't tried LinksSQL, but I'll bet it's in exactly the same shape as links2, it has to be modded to the max to get it to work as an adult linklist.
Xpowerlinks looks okay out of the box, at least what I've seen of it, but will it be secure and will it be supported? Who knows? All I know is that nobody I trust is using it now.
Money is so much not the issue that it's not even funny.
All I want is a trustable piece of software that is flexible, easily modified, supported, and which does what I want it to do out of the box.
Between $100 and $200 is the amount I think such a soft should cost. I mean, get serious, we aren't talking about programming a Photoshop here, it's a web script.
I don't particularly care about proliferation. There are already 500 little linklists and a thousand abandoned or extinct LLs. Proliferation is happening no matter what the soft costs.
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