EasySocial 1.2 RC1 will be out pretty soon

thank you Mark!

That is a political answer Mark "soon" - no time commitment
I am waiting for you to get this one out so you can get the 1.3 out, can't wait for the built in Video support, mind you the groups are going to be fun!
I showed 1.2 and went through it at the Brisbane Joomla User Group the other night and it was very well received and I had a ton of questions to answer which is always a great gauge of how interested people were, so well done guys.....

Cheers
Jeff

Beta 1
Beta 2
Beta 3
Beta 4
RC1
RC2??

Don't mean to be critical, just waiting impatiently

Love 1
Love 2
Love 3
Love 4
R-Love 1
R-Love 2
and each time, Happiness

There was a lot of glitches the stacked team had to work through. If beta 1 went straight to ES 1.2 we'd see a ton of people outraged. I myself observed some significant ones that the stacked team resolved.

Mark and the stacked team do not want to give a commitment because they don't actually know when it will be fully ready. I don't blame them one bit. Unexpected issues kept popping up. Not only would releasing a stable when it's not ready annoy the customers, but would create a huge mess for the stacked team for possibly any site that the new version gets installed on. Does anyone remember the Joomla 3.2.0 fiasco? Users were locked out of their site. While it wouldn't be quite like that, in some ways it would be (installations breaking, blank pages, ect).

The stacked team of all people don't want to let the customer down which is why they are trying to be as honest with their answers as possible. Want to know how long it takes for future releases? Observe the work flow and it will give you an idea. The number of features also effects it. ES 1.2 is a huge release in the series.

Hey guys,

We're really trying our best here but it takes both parties (vendor which is us) and also beta testers to ensure that everything goes as smooth. At times when we found very unique issues, we still need to address them. 4 beta's were out and we fixed almost 200 issues and added more than 50 smaller features / usability improvements. Name me a company that would ever do that

So beta is not really a beta but more of a real "community involvement"

I live Easysocial, I dream Easysocial !!!!!

Stackideas is by far the best Joomla component builder around!

LOL Thanks guys

installed beta4, and have main duestion - cb migrator - where are avatars migrator option???

Hi Anastasia,

installed beta4, and have main duestion - cb migrator - where are avatars migrator option???

By default the CB migrator will migrate your CB user's avatar thus there is no option for that. Anyway, do you mean after you run the CB migrator, the user avatars are not migrated into EasySocial?
If yes, then please submit your issue at http://stackideas.com/issues together with your site login access and ftp account so that we can investigate your issue

Hope this help

Mark, please take the time needed and do not feel pressured. Quality is most important over hasty release. Good luck!

Hi,

Thanks for the kind words guys! Really appreciate it!

Are a rc stable enough to use in live website?

Depends on your point of view. I found a scenario where the popup box does not work. Some other glitches may occur. It's one of those situation where if you really need it now, you should test it on a test site and see how it goes. Keep in mind that there is no official support for it until the stable version is released. So it's a "use at your own risk" kinda thing. I suspect perhaps in a week that a stable might come out. Maybe two if some unexpected things come up. This is not coming from the staff, this is just my prediction.

Thanks for replying.
I try the RC and it's working good for me.
But I afraid RC do something with database and not going to get help with it.

So for my point of view I only afraid my database.

Hello Patrik,

Regardless if it's BETA or RC or even a STABLE release, always try it on your staging site first No matter what, there are so many variants of LINUX / WINDOWS hosting providers and at times, they just hate each other

P/S: Get a free 30 day account from CloudAccess and try it there. If you like it, just get a temporary hosting for a staging site for yourself Just let them know that Mark from StackIdeas forwarded you over and you'll get a good discount

Mark wrote:

Hey guys,

Name me a company that would ever do that

Microsoft...

It's time for you to hire more developpers, I know stackideas is making lots of money. When are you going public, I want to buy some stocks.

Just out of curiosity, how many people does stackideas employ (working on easysocial)

If yes, then please submit your issue at http://stackideas.com/issues together with your site login access and ftp account so that we can investigate your issue

I made issue for this problem.

Hello checksum,

We only have 4 great and awesome developers and 3 designers

Anastasia,

Sure, already replied to you there.

wow, that's not a lot for such a big project. And considering you guys have other extensions too.

It just shows you what you can do with passion, dedication and hard work!

Now back to work

Thanks That's one of the reasons why we stress that customers should always try to self learn first and only get to us for support as the last resort. Our time is really precious pushing in development as this is what we really do best haha . But it's all good, loving the current workflow now.

Please, guys, don't forget about russian language

(now at 1.2RC4 there are very many language constants without translation to russian).

You guys are amazing !!

Wait for the next RC Not only it includes all the fixes for notifications and multi lingual capability, it also comes with something fresh and new

Hi Mark,

That sounds exciting. I don't mean to sound ungrateful but do you know if RC5 will be the last release? It is getting very long now!

Hello David,

I am really hoping that RC5 is the latest RC series because we are actually fixing all the notification / stream / mail issues that are related to multi lingual possibility. This is a great test for us because we have to go through over hundreds of different notifications and emails

The problem that we have now is not really related to 1.2.0 but it's more towards the fundamentals of the social network. With RC5, you will be able to have a TRUE multi lingual site where users can use their own language on the site while everything remain as localized to them as possible. That was our goal and we have been collaborating with a couple of main translators to make this happen. Namely Alex Heil has been helping us a lot on the multi lingual issue and we are really grateful for his concerns over the multi lingual content.