Hello Alex,

I am really sorry but I can't provide any dates / estimates at this point of time

Trust me Alex, we are all eager for ES 1.4 and EB5. The major releases take a bit of patience I must admit. But as always it will be a very worthy wait. I hope things are going well on the stacked team's end. ES 1.3.12 certainly is holding me over in the mean while.

Thanks for sharing Josh and appreciate it very much

@Mark, can you provide some information in regards to what the issues are that remain with EasyBlog 5 and an idea of where ES 1.4 is at?

Agree with James on the question.

My point:ES' Roadmap option was to provide an idea without date about where we are. Now no dates no idea no nothing to plan :P

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Hey guys,

The hardest part on EasyBlog 5 is to maintain the legacy support for blog posts that are created prior to EasyBlog 5 since we actually have a new editor which is built internally. The entire new composer area has a lot of stuffs which needs to be worked on and it's entirely because we want to get this done right rather than pushing out a release simply because we are out of time. Then, the end product wouldn't be as good as we wanted it to be

Mark,

I really got this, it's not much about pushing and more about knowing where we are percentage wise in the whole project of EB5 and ES1.4. Even so getting an extra 5% might need a day or a week is not a big concern more than, oh the guys are getting closer etc etc... this was a little bit achievable with your roadmap section, even so there was no %, we still had an idea by the complete bubbles or the started, testing etc etc.

Alex

Hello Alex,

Thanks for the heads up on this and appreciate it very much!

Great to hear this @Mark which of course I'm sure the majority of customers support 100% but of course @Alexandre echos the inevitable frustration that is born out of an extended period of what feels like "comm's blackout" on the roadmap.

In the end really all your customers want to believe in SI. The track record of delivery helps ensure our aspirations are well founded. There's no question that they are in my mind, but I'm just pointing out (which is so easy to do when you're just watching from a distance and not doing any of the real work that the fairly detailed roadmap reveal like we saw in the series of videos set expectations really high and this serves to tweak down just a bit on the ability to surprise us and exceed our expectations which ironically could take away the awesomeness every customer should feel about what's coming!

Maybe going forward there's a middle-ground to retain some benefits of a more general advanced feature list ("improved editor") and a more active albeit limited roadmap for goal-posting/tracking. This could keep us updated but still keep you guys nimble and light so you retain freedom to be creative, forward-thinking, and able to change steps internally without impacting anything else.

Also, I love the activity in the blogs every time SI focuses on what you've done rather than what you're going to do. Every time you share that news about what you've done, as I've seen in the last couple of point releases, you go far in reminding us why you've got our loyalty.

The entire new composer area has a lot of stuffs which needs to be worked on and it's entirely because we want to get this done right rather than pushing out a release simply because we are out of time. Then, the end product wouldn't be as good as we wanted it to be

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Thanks for the heads up on this Eileen, appreciate it very much.

One thing that is bothering me is I upgraded to ultimate to get access to the beta of EB5, but now my subscription will run out before the BETA comes out. So I paid for am upgrade that literally did nothing. Is there a way to convert the upgrade to ultimate to a renewal of subscription instead?

Hello Jannik,

When did you renew / upgrade your subscription? Perhaps you can write to us at https://crm.stackideas.com and we'll see what we can do about this

Thanks Mark, I will provide the details via https://crm.stackideas.com/

Thanks Jannik

No problem. Here is the Ticket ID: 31869

Thanks

lets hope pages hits 1.4 on easysocial hint hint

We'll try to see if we can include pages but we're focusing more on Videos first

Having suddenly no updates at all on the Road map is actually quite worrying to be honest as you set your own benchmark in this area. If no progress at all has been made on 1.4 then fine I suppose however if some has and the Road map isn,t updated it sends out the wrong signals.

Dave

Dave Logic wrote:

Having suddenly no updates at all on the Road map is actually quite worrying to be honest as you set your own benchmark in this area. If no progress at all has been made on 1.4 then fine I suppose however if some has and the Road map isn,t updated it sends out the wrong signals.

Dave

wrong signals? i think you are expecting too much, they can choose to update the roadmap, or not.. most update said roadmap after features have been set in place, not before... i know i do i things i do

Jeff wrote:

Dave Logic wrote:

Having suddenly no updates at all on the Road map is actually quite worrying to be honest as you set your own benchmark in this area. If no progress at all has been made on 1.4 then fine I suppose however if some has and the Road map isn,t updated it sends out the wrong signals.

Dave

wrong signals? i think you are expecting too much, they can choose to update the roadmap, or not.. most update said roadmap after features have been set in place, not before... i know i do i things i do

Jeff, If you read my post it clearly says if no progress has been made at all then FINE however if it has and the Roadmap has not been updated it sends the wrong signals out which could simply mean that Mark & the SI Team haven't had time to update it or it could mean that it has been forgotten about etc etc...Eitherway after being a subscriber to ES since the first release I have not seen this behaviour before therefore as i stated it worried me that that maybe due to the popularity of ES and the increased workload things are getting bottlenecked. I was a subscriber for years with Jomsocial and saw this happen there in a major way

I am not expecting too much nor am I complaining, I'm not in fact in any hurry for the next version...SI set high standards and are transparent with their customers. I am being transparent in return.

Dave

Dave Logic wrote:

Jeff wrote:

Dave Logic wrote:

Having suddenly no updates at all on the Road map is actually quite worrying to be honest as you set your own benchmark in this area. If no progress at all has been made on 1.4 then fine I suppose however if some has and the Road map isn,t updated it sends out the wrong signals.

Dave

wrong signals? i think you are expecting too much, they can choose to update the roadmap, or not.. most update said roadmap after features have been set in place, not before... i know i do i things i do

Jeff, If you read my post it clearly says if no progress has been made at all then FINE however if it has and the Roadmap has not been updated it sends the wrong signals out which could simply mean that Mark & the SI Team haven't had time to update it or it could mean that it has been forgotten about etc etc...Eitherway after being a subscriber to ES since the first release I have not seen this behaviour before therefore as i stated it worried me that that maybe due to the popularity of ES and the increased workload things are getting bottlenecked. I was a subscriber for years with Jomsocial and saw this happen there in a major way

I am not expecting too much nor am I complaining, I'm not in fact in any hurry for the next version...SI set high standards and are transparent with their customers. I am being transparent in return.

Dave

sounds like you are already complaining , from what i read you have gone on about a roadmap, complain about nothing being added to it, but eh.. .just reading into it i guess

Hey guys,

Firstly, I do apologize if I missed this thread. I am extremely occupied over the past couple of weeks since I got back from my holiday. I will also be occupied the upcoming week attending a Joomla day event in Thailand

I have to admit that there's some "slowdown" in the development of EasySocial 1.4 but this does not mean that nothing has been done at all. When I mean we do not have the time to update the status of those items on our issue tracker, it's simply because our priority right now is focusing on EasyBlog 5. Some of our dev's are still working on EasySocial 1.4

Some of you might not own an EasyBlog 5 license so you might be thinking that this would be unfair for you guys. Yes, I agree and fret not, I will be discussing with the team personally on how we could compensate these losses (time). If you guys are unhappy for any reasons at all, I am open to discussions. Please contact me via email, mark AT stackideas.com and also cc a copy to justin AT stackideas.com . I am sure we can work something out.

EasyBlog 5 is one of our biggest challenge thus far because it is going to be revolutionary with the way users are going to compose a blog post in Joomla and this is something new for us as well. As soon as we get EasyBlog 5 out, the entire team will then start focusing on EasySocial.

a free copy of easyblog? hehe

Mark,

I am pleased to hear you are focusing your efforts to focus on and complete EasyBlog 5 and then focus on EasySocial 1.4 with the whole team.

The revolutionary new version of EasyBlog is worth the wait.

Hello Jeff,

Perhaps? Anyway I just want to stress out to you guys that I am frustrated myself at the length we are taking to develop EasyBlog 5. We have never delayed this long before but after some heavy usages on EasyBlog 5, I am very certain that it's going to be worth the wait for you guys

Not to mention the new theme and videos of EasySocial 1.4 is going to be super rocking awesome!

Wait what...you said "new theme" ?! Maybe a big flat design ?!

Just wanted to add that I agree with Dave that SI set a new standard with their roadmap that I personally quite liked. The regular release of videos preview of EB 5 was quite entertaining as well.

I know that it can be quite time consuming but if you manage to find some time, don't underestimate how important those regular input are in keeping your community aware of your efforts and how much they appreciate it.

Love back to you all!

B.

Thanks for the heads up on this Benoit and thank you for the love as well