Currently, there is only one programmer for Mids. Myself. St0n3y does everything else; importing data, importing images and upkeep of the database files and their overall functionality and stability.
There has been discussion of MBT (Mid's Beta Team):
read this for a background. All this requires time; something I've been short of with a project dead-line looming at work.
The data files are nothing special; and are relevant only to Mids. They cannot be opened or edited (without possibly corrupting the file) in any other program; and Mids intentionally did that do avoid forks of his data/software. Not that he didn't believe that other developers shouldn't try their hands at their own versions... I think he did it this way the same way the PIGGs are only compressed and not encrypted. To make it difficult for the degradation of information across a multitude of platforms.
So to answer one of your questions, no St0n3y edits the database in Mids; there is no 3rd-party software.
On topic with your first series of questions, it is one of our very near priorities to add 2 main features to Mids'.
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Beta Builds... you'll have to be on the MBT to get it though, and I already have a handful of people interested; I just need to setup the site as stated above.
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Multiple Data Sources - This will allow users to to switch between different folders with data/.mhd files. Off the cuff just Official Data and Private Data will be available.
Thanks for the gratuity, however; if you feel the need to throw money at Mids' Hero & Villain Designer, there is a link in the "About Us" for the donation page. While we welcome donations of any nature and denomination; services rendered upon monetary request is something Titan Network just does not do. Mainly because of entitlement issues of said transactions; which can be a powder-keg of drama we attempt to avoid regardless of the person or group's well-meant intentions.
Hope that's clarified it for ya. Let me know otherwise.