[...]I've been working with him for awhile and the site is actually quite complicated:
www.terrawallet.com and I've been happy so far.
I hadn't thought about future code maintenance, perhaps I will speak with him about this, but I personally can't support a scammer tag at this point. I would say to try giving him another chance- Debugging is a long and hard process something that I think both sides need to dedicate a lot of time to.
Excellent, did he give you a time-frame for when it will be up so we can see how it works? Do you mind telling how much he received from you so far?
Has TF completed any commercial websites that we can review and know the cost he charged for the coding job?
It looks complicated and at least you knew in advance that he's never coded a TRC website, so there's bound to be "bugs" in that process. One of my problems was that when I asked him about making a site to accept BTC similar to the one in his sig, he just went with it like he's programmed a commercial site that allows for BTC deposits. Then I find out later the site he tried to make for me would have been the first BTC deposit taking site he's completed (if he had ever got it to work reliably).
Saw this on the front page-
two factor auto
I assume thats 2 factor auth.
LOL, Yeah, I just saw that. But the owner could go through the code and edit it if he really cared, that's not TF fault. Or maybe the owner didn't report the error to TF yet.
Is it normal to have to go through every little piece of a commercial web-programmer's work and need to correct things like this? Maybe I've been spoiled by dealing with artisans who give guarantees/warranties on their work.
Maybe it's time to fire him and pay a real programmer to do the job? Or did you decide to abandon the project altogether?
Please update us with your satisfaction on that site which seems horrid imho. Hopefully that's not what you consider a finished site?