You don't have to update just like how you don't have to update Joomla. However I think it's a great idea and would be silly not to, especially considering all the great changes made in ES 1.4. It's not just for those who want videos, polls, photo attachments, and smilies. It's got a lot of other improvements that will help pretty much every customer of EasySocial. ES 1.4 enables beautiful profile URL's (site/name), allows everyone to message everyone instead of just friends, faster performance, auto group for profile types, default apps, and many other minor settings.

Not to mention that support will be a lot trickier if you stay on ES 1.3 (if at all).

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the helps.

Will everything still work with it, hwdmediashare, kunena etc?

Kunena integration seems to work pretty much perfectly on both the app and the plugin (will have to let the Kunena staff know about the simple URL method). Ask the HwdMediaShare staff about integration with ES 1.4. If they don't already, it probably won't take much to update their extension to be compatible.

Well i just updated to new version, still testing it but kunena seems to work ok, i do have a few layout and css issues though so i'm going to submit a ticket.

Hey P Hughes,

I am sorry that delay of this reply,

If you found out some issue after you tested, I would personally prefer that you start a new thread instead.