Subscribed. The major version change allows Stackideas to make major revamps to the JavaScript methods and much more. As I understand it this will break backwards compatibility with older apps/plugins. Think of it as a way of saying "alright everyone, time to update your extensions to work with the big release". It makes it obvious to developers. Plus we can expect some cool changes aside from the nerdy stuff.

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@Mark, some of the questions above are for you.

Any comments?

Thanks,
James

Hey James,

I am sorry for the delay of my reply, have been really occupied with the new forums and also a couple of events that I had to personally attend to. During these times, I might have missed the original question altogether.

We don't have an "exact timeframe" yet but works are already underway for EasySocial 2.0. Having said that, there are only so much we can add in 2.0 due to the time constraints and we are discussing internally on which of the key features / implementation that we should be adding in 2.0

There are quite a number of major features which we have been debating internally a lot. One of it, is our own chatting engine for EasySocial and the complete removal of Foundry + bootstrap altogether. Foundry was created to solve our inter-component integrations but it seems to not be serving us correctly due to the fact that we have to run a separate foundry version for each of our own extension. The removal of foundry will definitely be something to look forward to because that will reduce the file size of the scripts included in EasySocial.

Apart from those, the other most debated feature that we have internally is the intelligent custom fields and also the ability to provide site owners more information about the users on the site as mentioned on http://stackideas.com/forums/data,-data-and-data

Having said that, I really do not want to put ourselves in a position where we try to do too many features in each major release which eventually delays the release.

Mark wrote:

There are quite a number of major features which we have been debating internally a lot. One of it, is our own chatting engine for EasySocial and the complete removal of Foundry + bootstrap altogether.

I'm assuming that it's a debate between pages and chat? Even the lesser of the two would be used a lot by most ES users. I also really like the idea of making the scripting end of ES lighter. Power is nice, but there is certainly something to be said about lightweight. I have no problem having Bootstrap scripting removed. I'm assuming the Bootstrap classes would still be used? Or would the layout be completely rewritten?

My picks:

1. Integration with all the popular Cloud services such as Box and Google or Microsoft Cloud offerings. That way the content can be easily accessed in all product extensions, and it serves to draw new types of users, where they want to store their content data outside the public social networks such as Facecrap.

2. Ability to include an image, Album or video with Polls.

3. Add polls fo videos, so polls can be created to drive more interactivity and feedback discussions that poll question can encourage.

4. I'm all for more data on the statistical data on the users. Anytime this can be bolstered, it makes Easysocial more resourceful and powerful to build successful networks.

Some additions to the Tasks app.

Look forward to being able to test this time around.

Been very busy on business development, researching other extensions, and projects that leverage the great extensions from the best Joomla developers on the pkanet.

Randall

i believe DATA is what differentiate professionals social network from others, the users tell us what they are/want/do in their profiles and with data analytics we can focus on what they are lloking for when they join our websites.

Thanks for the heads up on this Randall

Hi Mark,

Can you please add pagination to the list? K2 app (and possibly other apps) give us the ability to limit number of articles shown on the profile but does not give the option to go to next set of articles that are set in the limit. In other words one cannot scroll all the articles posted by a user in their profile.

Thanks

Keep Quiet wrote:

Can you please add pagination to the list?

I can no longer hold back from making a voice page for pagination. This is an essential feature for apps. Everyone who loves pagination should show their support. This feature has been on my mind for 2 years. I've held off out of respect of not overwhelming the Stackideas team. I figured voicing it in this case is appropriate considering that it not only benefits everyone (quiet literally), but also seems to be less work than other requests.

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the heads up on this one

So, the answer to the original question here is No then ? This voice below was accepted quite some time back and something I have been waiting on. It is supposed to materialize in 2.0 so can somebody confirm whether this will happen ?

http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/185

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That's another gem David! I would love to be able to map places that do not have an address. Much of the exciting places in the world cannot be mapped without this feature.

Totally agreed re: the need for route maps rather than one single location.

I had similar up on Voices... but it seems to have vanished

Detail in this post though: http://stackideas.com/forums/route-maps-for-easysocial-events

Hi Guys,

There is some issue with the Voice page and we are still investigating as why some items are gone missing If you found your voice item went missing for no reason, please re-submit your feature request in our voice.

I apologise for any inconvenience that may have caused to you guys.
Thanks.

Sam wrote:

Hi Guys,

There is some issue with the Voice page and we are still investigating as why some items are gone missing If you found your voice item went missing for no reason, please re-submit your feature request in our voice.

I apologise for any inconvenience that may have caused to you guys.
Thanks.

So this is still being investigated ?

Dave

We already found the issues with the voices page and we need to revamp the voices page

Mark wrote:

We already found the issues with the voices page and we need to revamp the voices page

Yes!! I'm excited to hear this news. I started logging my deleted voices to find any patterns. Seems like commenting is related.

Yeah, need some spare time to update the voices

Any update on Release Date?
Waiting for JSON based Profile Editing Feature

Unfortunately, we can't give hard update on the release date of EasySocial as we are in the middle of polishing EasyDiscuss 4. Furthermore, an update to EasySocial is planned to be released soon, but it is prioritized to handle the compatibility issues with Joomla 3.5 and PHP7. The feature requests will have to be implemented on later version

But rest assured, we are aiming to do EasySocial next once we are satisfied with EasyDiscuss .

Please, make sure that with EasySocial 2.0, we can tag a Group on a Photo.
Like with Facebook

This is an essential feature.

Hey Pakitao,

Everyone is requesting so many features and there is only so much we can add. I would strongly suggest you place your ideas / suggestions at http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial and let the community vote for it

I am updating the voices page as we speak and we're preparing for a team update shortly for EasySocial 2.0

Ok. Thank you Mark !

Nice to hear about the progress, you making a great effort here.

I can't find the voice for implement a subscription/payment membership feature - where did it went?

Hey Kristian,

There was a bug in our "voices" system and some of these got deleted but subscription is a definite must have for the next version of EasySocial

Thanks Mark, sounds good, have a nice weekend

Mark,

Of all the features that can be added to enhance EasySocial, implementing a subscription/payment membership feature is most desired feature. It will set EasySocial up for a HUGE increase in new extension subscribers because administrators need to find ways to monetize their sites.

Implementation of a subscription/payment membership feature would allow for charging for Events, Digital File Downloads in Groups etc.

Charging for Events in ES like what can be done with Eventbrite is a perfect example of what could be achieved with payment features in ES 2.0.

I just hope new features don't take over from improving what we have. Some very important user experience improvements, cosmetic and otherwise... eg as simple as sticking to the 'Easy' in 'EasySocial' and having info and timeline on the same page and not having to see and click the link to find info which most users totally miss.

I'm not against the new things - but best to build up from perfection rather than build up from imperfection. That way the building stays strong!

Thanks for the input on this guys. Improvising on the usability is a must have for EasySocial 2.0 but we need to do this really carefully to avoid users who have template modifications having have to re-work on their customizations.

Dave Logic wrote:

So, the answer to the original question here is No then ? This voice below was accepted quite some time back and something I have been waiting on. It is supposed to materialize in 2.0 so can somebody confirm whether this will happen ?

http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/185

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Still waiting on a response to this. Everything I have been waiting on was agreed to, accepted and vanished suddenly. I don't have much faith in the feature voices system to be honest.

I had to recreate this one after it vanished recently but has no where near the voices it once had...Also, what happened to the 'Accepted' Extended Photo Details voice....that one vanished way before the Voices system broke, was simply removed....Hardly democratic ?

Regards,

Dave

I can guarantee you that we never removed / will remove any items posted on the voices page unless it is a spam or it is not a feature request.

There was a bug in our voices system which led to these items being removed by search engine's crawlers. We are suspecting that there were some hidden links in the page that led to this.

I am trying to locate for backups of the most recent items but right now it's a little difficult to merge the previous items back in because of the ID discrepancies. Therefore I am requesting everyone to re-post their items on the voices page . I am also closely monitoring the voices as we're picking up those items for EasySocial 2.0

OK Mark. Thanks for the response.

Dave

Thanks for understanding Dave, appreciate this very much

Hey StackIdeas Team, its been a while since I first post this thread and I wanted to follow up and see where we stand in regards to EasySocial 2.0? With the release of EasyDiscuss it has been mentioned previously that efforts will be focused on EasySocial. There have been a few hints dropped here and there about rumored features we can expect to see in the up coming release.

Can you provide some details about what is planned? Has any work been done with EasySocial 2.0 or will work begin shortly?

Thanks,
James

I look forward to this discussion to learn what is going to be a priority.

I heard paid memberships! The no. 1 request since the beginning of ES. Come on SI team, this is the ultimate value giver to webmasters. Let's do it!

Guys, work has already started ever since EasyDiscuss 4.0 was under development However you should take a look at those items accepted for 2.0 from http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial

Hi guys, yesterday I added these proposals. Check them out, please, and consider their benefits to ES.
http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/1156
http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/1155

Thanks for sharing, remember to ensure that you don't duplicate feature requests

hello all,
nice to ear that voice is back

I repost some of my previous post that have been erased during voice bug.

You can vote or enrich by commenting :

Post in a group directly from my timeline : http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/1158

Photo album page improvement : http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/1159

Edit my stream post : http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/1160

Dating module personalization : http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/1161

Member list enhancement : http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/1162


loïc

Thanks for sharing

you are welcome

one more :

Autopost from rss, fb... in user stream : http://stackideas.com/voices/item/1163

vote or enrich by commenting
loïc

Thank you

Sry for asking again, will there be a paid membership feature included in 2.0? Clients asking, i rather go native then thru 3party

If I can pull this through, then yes

Kristian wrote:

Sry for asking again, will there be a paid membership feature included in 2.0? Clients asking, i rather go native then thru 3party

Paid Membership is the number One Request I have and I see it is very important to many other people.

Thanks for sharing Randall

If we are going that way, please include Stripe - leading the way these days

Thanks for the input on this Andy

Hi Mark,

I don't know if you guys thought of adding API to calendar/event or any other feature to extend functionalities so developers can create plugins. For example, in events if StackIdeas don't plan to add paid event registrations then at least an API to extend and add that functionality as an add-on/plugin.

Thanks,

Jackson

We already have apps for events and you can already build events app that controls the behavior of users attending the event.

Mark wrote:
We already have apps for events and you can already build events app that controls the behavior of users attending the event.

Cool Mark! I'll check it out. Thanks!

No problem

I have couple of suggestions. Not sure whether this makes sense for others or not. but I believe it is.


Based on Profile type Admin should be able to allow which filed is visible to public or other Profile type user.
At the same time User should have control on which informaiton he would others to see.

Hello Prasad,

Thanks for your insights on this and I kinda love this idea. As we are going to revamp the custom fields in 2.1, may I suggest that you post your suggestions on http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial so that your ideas / suggestions would not be put to a waste

Prasad Rudraraju wrote:

I have couple of suggestions. Not sure whether this makes sense for others or not. but I believe it is.


Based on Profile type Admin should be able to allow which filed is visible to public or other Profile type user.
At the same time User should have control on which information he would others to see.

Mark,

Prasad's has offered up an excellent idea that will vastly improve Profile Types and the selection of Profile types when a user first registers for the site.

The ability to have certain Profile Types hidden at Registration and reserved for an Upgrade or a path to move up to based on time passed as a member, or points achieved would give the Administrator so much more flexibility.

A couple of scenarios would be as such:

1. At Registration, having a Level One Profile Type. There would be levels that can be achieved after a period of time ex: 6 months or collection of a number of points, then the User will gain a certification to Level 2, then Level 3, etc.

2. Having a Moderator Profile Type, whereby this Profile Type is designated SPECIAL STATUS by the Administrator, and this would be invisible or not available to be selected at Registration, but would be only available by the Administrator giving a user this Profile Type Status.

Yep, it's a good idea indeed Perhaps he / you should post them on our voices area

curious how 2.0 is coming along? Do you have an estimate of when the first release will be available?

It's shaping up pretty nicely We have resolved over 1200 tickets till date and there's about 30 more to go.

Milestone: 2.0 - Looks like most 2.0 roadmap items are completed with two left to start and a few in progress.

EasySocial Milestone 2.0

@Randall, thanks for informing us. Been checking a lot lately too.

As for your signature "When the brain is blank - the mind is blind", this is why I've been on the down low. Finally made a huge break through recently (head aches have eased) and am hoping to make a big come back to the Stackideas community coming up. ES 2.0 is going to be so cool.

Those items on the roadmap is only just partial of what we have We are changing stuffs on a daily basis, but stay tune to our blogs

I am super excited for the next couple of days and week

Mark wrote:

Those items on the roadmap is only just partial of what we have We are changing stuffs on a daily basis, but stay tune to our blogs

I am super excited for the next couple of days and week

I look forward to the BETA version of ES 2.0, and to learn more with the Blog post updates.

Very excited to see the next sneak peaks !

Josh Lewis wrote:

@Randall, thanks for informing us. Been checking a lot lately too.

As for your signature "When the brain is blank - the mind is blind", this is why I've been on the down low. Finally made a huge break through recently (head aches have eased) and am hoping to make a big come back to the Stackideas community coming up. ES 2.0 is going to be so cool.

Josh,

Glad to hear the headaches have subsided. Good to see you get back and excited about Testing ES 2.0 when it is available. It's going to be a huge exciting release.

Thanks guys

Requirements profile types to join the company or the type of team

I want to be like this https://app.hiive.co.uk/companies/bbc/1065


It would be great to to show a company or organization
https://app.hiive.co.uk/companies/

peiyouliao wrote:

Requirements profile types to join the company or the type of team

I want to be like this
hiive.co.uk




It would be great to to show a company or organization
companies

Providing individuals to join the team of the company Profile page....https://app.hiive.co.uk/swarms/

Randall McCallum wrote:

Milestone: 2.0 - Looks like most 2.0 roadmap items are completed with two left to start and a few in progress.

EasySocial Milestone 2.0

The Roadmap seems to be somewhat irrelevant: http://stackideas.com/roadmap/easysocial?milestone=2.3

James

There's actually a mixup between our issue tracker with the milestones area. We're going to shift to gitlab soon but we're going to prioritize this fix after we push ES2 out

Hello folks,
So, we can now try ES2 or wait for a stable version?

Hello Vaggelis,

I would suggest that you try this on a staging site instead of applying it directly on your live site Read more about the alpha release here, http://stackideas.com/blog/easysocial-2-0-alpha-available-now