Hey Mark & Team ... i need this really bad and i think in Joomla scene there are milions like me
What about bringing some of your awesome EasySocial features at "CMS level" ? What i mean by this is the following ...
Some of use (a lot of us) are building products, diferrent kind of products leveraging Joomla in different kind of ways.
Sometimes we need some features for our project but we don't need the overhead of the other extra stuff that usually comes in a "packed" solution like EasySocial.
We might need a notification system, a user profiling system, a user "connection" system (follow/unfollow between users) and so on.
EasySocial it's GREAT as a "pre-packed" all-in-one social network but sometimes you don't need all of it's beels and whistles. Sometimes you need just few "pieces" of functionality from EasySocial.
Did you guys thought about "decoupling" some of these must-have features for any kind of social / community site and provide them at "CMS level" as "building blocks" ?
I am thinking about: notification system, conversation system, simple to use profile system with follow/unfollow or "friends" type user connections.
It would be SO GREAT !
In my case, i really NEED these but i need to install the whole EasySocial package, our database will store a lot of tables that we don't use etc. It's a compromise we have to do.
I think the extension joomla developers (and you guys are amongst the greatest ones) must start to picture joomla the way it is, a MODULAR system for building end-user solutions and start providing those "puzzle" pieces to help us achieve what we want.
There are tons of extensions out there and everybody makes the same mistake (in my opinion) . Everybody is assuming too much providing all-in-one solutions that either accomplish too much or not enough
Let's get back to the CMS Core and let's leverage this as much as we can.
Of course, there is a market for "all-in-one products" like EasySocial but there is also a market for us, advanced users, that want to build something different, leverage as much of the CMS core as we can .... and we just need those puzzle pieces
Thanks for reading all of this !
What about bringing some of your awesome EasySocial features at "CMS level" ? What i mean by this is the following ...
Some of use (a lot of us) are building products, diferrent kind of products leveraging Joomla in different kind of ways.
Sometimes we need some features for our project but we don't need the overhead of the other extra stuff that usually comes in a "packed" solution like EasySocial.
We might need a notification system, a user profiling system, a user "connection" system (follow/unfollow between users) and so on.
EasySocial it's GREAT as a "pre-packed" all-in-one social network but sometimes you don't need all of it's beels and whistles. Sometimes you need just few "pieces" of functionality from EasySocial.
Did you guys thought about "decoupling" some of these must-have features for any kind of social / community site and provide them at "CMS level" as "building blocks" ?
I am thinking about: notification system, conversation system, simple to use profile system with follow/unfollow or "friends" type user connections.
It would be SO GREAT !
In my case, i really NEED these but i need to install the whole EasySocial package, our database will store a lot of tables that we don't use etc. It's a compromise we have to do.
I think the extension joomla developers (and you guys are amongst the greatest ones) must start to picture joomla the way it is, a MODULAR system for building end-user solutions and start providing those "puzzle" pieces to help us achieve what we want.
There are tons of extensions out there and everybody makes the same mistake (in my opinion) . Everybody is assuming too much providing all-in-one solutions that either accomplish too much or not enough
Let's get back to the CMS Core and let's leverage this as much as we can.
Of course, there is a market for "all-in-one products" like EasySocial but there is also a market for us, advanced users, that want to build something different, leverage as much of the CMS core as we can .... and we just need those puzzle pieces
Thanks for reading all of this !