Subscribed. I think it's safe to assume that creating compatibility with Joomla 3.4 from 3.3 shouldn't be too much trouble or take much time. However I would recommend that people use a test site before making the jump with EasySocial to ensure that nothing breaks.

Subscribed. After having just bought another 6 months for Easy Social I am also very interested in new developments.

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Subscribing....

..also wondering regardless of exactly when it'll be, whether there's a known plan if EasySocial 1.4 will be out before or after the alpha of EasyBlog 5....

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Editing my post...just read some frank, specific, and relevant information on dev in this recent thread post

Stack Team keep it up, stay focused, but please always keep communicating. I've seen a blog and forum post in the past on updates or sharing challenges, progress, and what you've learned but if you had a simple schedule/plan for those communications (x posts every y days/weeks under a particular thread or in your roadmap page) that would help your customers understand and cheer you on.

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Hey guys,

I am not going to deny the fact that we are prioritizing on EasyBlog 5. EasyBlog 5 has been long due before EasySocial and yes, we are shorthanded but we're trying our very best to ensure that we deliver what we promised in EasyBlog 5.

Our primary goal right now is to still ensure that EasySocial is not left behind but the release cycle is pushed further ahead because of the complexity which we faced in EasySocial. While I agree some of you couldn't care-less about EasyBlog, there are still a lot of customers who are waiting for EasyBlog 5 and just like you, we do not want to let them down. Purchasing a subscription not only entitles you to software updates but support as well. I am pretty sure most of you have used our support here.

What's going to happen next? As soon as we get EasyBlog 5 out of the way, we will try our best to speed up the development cycle in EasySocial by pushing them ahead of schedule rather then throwing all the features at one go. We are currently setting up another dedicated team which will focus on EasyBlog and most of our senior developers would focus on EasySocial 1.4 onwards.

We are not going to release any preview now until we are certain that these features which we worked on EasySocial 1.4 are confirmed. This is to avoid competitors trying to leech our ideas (We have already done this before and regrettably, it was leeched by another competitor which I will not name)

Hi Mark,
We look forward for all your updates. Just wanted to point out that there are many members using all of your products in a single website and i really wish that you had a common base framework of JS for all your products, e.g currently ES uses a different version of Foundry than EB.

Nevertheless, i have migrated from one of your competitors and till date i'm extremely satisfied with the outcome of my site in terms of functionality and UX.

I also keep an eye on competitor and have been noticing that they are catching up fast, especially in the last 6 months, i think your reference of leeching ideas from here can be seen in the product. But a wise man once said "All is fair in love and war" )

regards

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Hello Sunny,

Thank you for your kind feedback. Hopefully things will turn out great upon the release of 1.4.

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Hi Ezrul,

I was checking on one alternate social component, although it is WIP, and still is crappy and nowhere near the finesse of ES
But i'm impressed by the discipline they have maintained in resource usage both in terms of JS/CSS & page size. Its worth a look.
rgds

Hello Sunny,

Thanks for sharing this with us

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I jumped from Community Builder to StackIdeas products not too long ago, and I have already gotten more mileage out of the latter's software in a few weeks than I did a couple of year's usage with CB. I think one of my biggest gripes with CB is that while there is content out there to add onto it, most of it is outdated information. Seriously, go check out their directory right now and try to find something that works on their latest build. EasySocial is already more feature-rich out of the box than CB is to boot, and EasyBlog trumps CB Blogs easily.

Every time I have a question for StackIdeas, be it in the tickets or the forum, I receive a very timely and helpful response with polite dialogue. Finding that they are short-staffed only impresses me more on their support of their software. And while longer-usage users may complain about release cycles, I'm already seeing better results than what I used to see with CB.

I hope StackIdeas finds the means of getting additional staff to work on their products as I've been truly impressed with everything they work on and hope to continually see good things come from them. Honestly, if you opened up a means of fast-tracking features I would love to lay some additional money down.

Dear David.

Thank you for your positive comments and I really appreciate you taking the time to share that with us

Hello David

I can only echo everything you say. CB was powerful, clunky and outdated.
ES is just makes sense and is seriously powerful :-)
Sure every thing is changing here all the time and sometimes stuff falls under the table.
But hey there is something on the table. And a lot of stuff for that matter :-)

Moving from CB too ES was the best decision I ever made with respect to my websie

best

Paul

I used to use CB also for many years which was a decent profile system, but did not have a easy medium to share activity with in an engaging way. It also required a lot of addons to bring it up to a usable level for a community site. I still have a lot of respect for the CB team.

But of course my first choice for a community site is EasySocial. I had been looking for years for a staff like Stackideas where you feel positive change taking place often. Aside from these guys making the best software for Joomla, I've always loved their dedication to what they do and their swift support.

Guys no offence but is this not a thread about ES 1.4 and the current development rate? Can we keep it relevant.

No one is disputing that fact that this is he best social component for the Joomla platform but Stack Ideas, please hurry up with ES 1.4!

Subscribe! Interesting topic and would definitely affect our development decision.

Hello Guys,

Thanks for the support guys. We will do our best for the better future of easysocial and for you guys!

StackIdeas team, I am curious as to the status of EasySocial 1.4?

The obvious resource is the roadmap: http://www.stackideas.com/roadmap/easysocial which is a good starting point however I am curious if you have an approximate time or deadline for yourselves to get to Alpha Stages for user testing? As seen with EasyBlog the testing phase itself can take weeks before we get to stable and even then there are usually somewhat infested with bugs. I for one would like to help expedite the process of release cycles for all software. Here are my thoughts.

1. In EasySocial 1.3 Series we have seen more recently that StackIdeas is open to the idea of minor release cycles which include new features.
2. Major releases often take months to develop and the alpha/beta/rc process is usually at least a month long if not more.

Is StackIdeas open to a closed beta group that is involved with new changes to the EasySocial Infrastructure during development and testing? That means to me, StackIdeas has its own development environment, StackIdeas maintains the release cycles as well as an active changelog. Basically, as a function within EasySocial, EasyBlog, EasyDiscuss, Komento are in a "testing" phase the team could begin debugging. The team would be construct of a select few individuals, hand picked by StackIdeas. The team would also have only ( 1 ) option for testing... bug reporting! No feature request, no other crap to slow down the process and cause potential road blocks.

The idea is to make progressive changes more regularly across all of the extensions provide here.

Regardless of the above information, please do provide us with an update.

Thank you,
James

Hey guys,

I am really sorry for the delay of my reply. We have been overwhelmed by our support since the release of EasyBlog 5. I am now able to spare some time to write the post after clearing all these support tickets on our helpdesk. The updates on EasySocial 1.4 is posted at http://stackideas.com/blog/4th-of-july-updates-on-easysocial-1-4-and-demo-site