2017

Andrew Boon posted 2nd of January 2017 in Our Journey. 19 comments.

Lean, efficient, concise. These are the words for 2017. Less talk, more walk.

We have a lot to do...

- Release Dolphin v10

- Release UNA v9

- Build a new Messenger for both Dolphin and UNA

- Tidy up Boonex.com

- Bridge Dolphin and UNA

- Improve support response time

Therefore, we shall...

- Keep our posts and mailouts short

- Build up Knowledge Base and Documentation

- Make a few "starter" videos

- Focus on highly-demanded features development

- Be informative and succinct in our support conversations

In the upcoming posts, I will tell more about UNA, the new messenger, Dolphin v10, plans for mobile apps and Boonex.com cleanup. We have been relatively silent in the last couple of months even though this period was easily the busiest we ever had. We have learnt a lot from 2016. Thank you for sharing this journey with us!

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gsicard•3rd of January 2017

Very good then. I look forward to these changes. Lets hope they will make Dolphin more attractive for end users, most of whom are on mobile devices. Give us a hint what UNA is please!

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gsicard•3rd of January 2017•to gsicard

ok.. I found the UNA definition - ugggg..

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geek_girl•4th of January 2017•to gsicard

yes, ugggg.

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Andrew Boon•7th of January 2017•to gsicard

UNA stands for United Networking Applications, but can also be taken as a reference to "unity" in general.

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geek_girl•3rd of January 2017

I will say that 2016 saw many improvements in Dolphin. The only thing that I saw in this post that made me uneasy is the "Bridge Dolphin and UNA" as I don't like UNA; at all. Hopefully Dolphin won't ever have the horrible UNA admin panel.

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Andrew Boon•7th of January 2017•to geek_girl

No, it won't, because Studio is not an admin :) . Studio is a config panel. Admin uses user-end interface.

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vavilon•6th of January 2017

App w/push. Mobile Wall. Messenger.

I think that the concept of 2014 that Dolphin will mostly used on Desctops was horrible mistake. Mobile is the new black from near 2012. And it so pity that Dolphin still isn't there.

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Andrew Boon•7th of January 2017•to vavilon

There're a few ways to approach "mobile", and Dolphin is taking a more conservative approach, while UNA is more radical.

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vavilon•8th of January 2017•to Andrew Boon

The only way to approach mobile - is to build this way up. Social networking w/out mobile Wall and Chat - is neither social nor networking. You don't need to figure it out - just look at FB, OK, In, Mamba, Reddit and so on. It so pity that in 2017 we need to discuss "conservative" approach to mobile, when in 2012 it was so clear that the future is in smartphone.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jondube/2012/05/08/why-smartphones-are-the-future-of-social-networking/#1710b82b17a6

If conservative see more

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DeanMonte•8th of January 2017•to vavilon

Yep, agree, push notification is VERY HUGE! Mobile as WELL!

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adultdate•8th of January 2017

new messenger :)

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launch3•8th of January 2017

Please make Dolphin 10 more end-user friendly. I have had a number of members email me saying "how do I ..." or "this is way too hard..."

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launch3•8th of January 2017•to launch3

A majority of issues come at sign up when they try to create/edit their profile, upload or edit their profile pic (I've been using Dolphin for a few years and I even get irritated), avatar, etc. This stuff + navigation at the beginning are what turns them off immediately because it's not intuitive and they frankly give up. It has to be totally simple.

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jmonroe•8th of January 2017

Dolphin v10? So is versioning skipping from 7.3.3 to v10?

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yzisano•4th of April 2017•to jmonroe

yes, it calls leap

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yzisano•4th of April 2017•to jmonroe

yes, it calls leap

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sybersolutions•9th of January 2017

a better layout for the mobile app would be great!

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kamitoo•17th of January 2017

I think a faster Support response time must be the first improvement. When you are new with Dolphin like me and you are waiting many days for Support to reply to a simple installation request, then you understand that Support response time is the most important thing to improve in the moment at Boonex.

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JoseLeles•7th of February 2017

In my opinion, the most relevant improvement BoonEx could do was build a sharing button like on Facebook to users share videos, photos, posts... with each other and with group inside the site having no need to go to Facebook. That's my 2017 dream! I know a competitor that has it but is not as solid as Dolphin! It break too much. Dolphin has been trustworthy, solid, consistent, but miss such a great feature! Oh, I dream!!!

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