Dolphin 7 (Hookie) Public Preview. Build 12.

Andrew Boon posted 12th of March 2009 in . 188 comments.

The very first public preview of Dolphin 7 is available now. As many of you know, we were initially planning to release an interim 6.5 version and a few months later - v7, but while working on it we realized that this renovation should not be "half-baked". We went on to develop the biggest version upgrade BoonEx has ever had.

Dolphin 7 is the last major update based on the current engine. We plan to officially support and develop it for about 3 years after the Dolphin 7 release and will be issuing smaller updates (7.1, 7.2, etc) every 6-9 months (not sixty nine, but six to nine months). Dolphin 8, based on Poseidon (BoonEx proprietary software engine and development framework) should replace Dolphin 7 once functionality is matched and the proper upgrade path is developed. Dolphin 7.x and 8.x will live together for a while, so plan accordingly.

Hookie is based on Dolphin 6.1 (Spunky), but has been re-worked to an extent that they are almost absolutely different. We had to freeze development of all BoonEx projects for a few months (including Poseidon, Expertzzz and Unity) just to focus on Dolphin 7. It is still far from ready, but the day has come to show you what we have already done and what it is going to be like. Please, engage your imagination and patience while "previewing" the demo - many of the bells'n'whistles are not added yet and we have a list of known issues. We do, however, believe that at this stage you can see and appreciate the amount of work done towards improvement of every single aspect of the script.

Dolphin 7 will re-shape the BoonEx organization, policies and licensing terms dramatically. We expect a wave of upgrades and realize that we need serious internal restructuring and a policies update to keep up with demand.

Dolphin 7 is being designed to WOW your site's visitors and members, monetize your traffic and get your business into the world of mobile communities.

General Overview

Historically, Dolphin has been developed based on webmasters' requests. This time we've taken a different approach and re-designed it for end-users, placing usability and UI consistency first. We researched functionality of Facebook, MySpace, PoF and many other social networks and dating sites; we designed a logically-structured navigation tree; tested numerous use-cases; talked to people and tried different approaches. Now Dolphin 7 boasts significantly improved navigation, layout and UI logic.

On the back-end, Hookie has received proper attention as well. We moved all major modules to separate folders and re-wrote the code to separate them. We added caching to most of the "power hungry" pages; introduced standardized forms; integrated jQuery and optimized DB queries.

Hookie is an all-in-one package. It includes Ray Widgets and Orca Forum as native components now. So, the whole thing is now called Dolphin and will require just a single license. Flash apps have all been dramatically improved and new ones were added. Dolphin 7 will at last come as a single-install - no more Free/Ad-Free variants - just run it for free or add license to have all BoonEx links automatically removed (no re-installation of flash-apps required). Flash apps won't have banners or ad-links anymore, just "powered by BoonEx" links.

Take a look at...

... new design and layout. It is now unified across all pages and cleaned thoroughly almost everywhere (yet the work is still in progress).

... new "adaptive" navigation structure, design and logic

... new members browsing, pagination, search, QuickBox, simple + extended views

... Google Maps integration (far from final though)

... new "Leaders" box

... new Join and Login forms

... new language-sensitive Promo

... searches: keyword search, people search, quick search (and more planned)

... new Account

... new Friends

... new Mail

... new Activity

... new Profile

... new Boards (with Rooms, visible attendants, and soon - saved boards)

... new Video Player with "related videos" stream

... new Music Player with EQ

... Media Albums

... Categories

... new Polls

... completely new, dynamic Comments, integrated for all modules, with multi-level nesting and dynamic post-editing

... Video Comments, integrated with text comments

... multi-functional Wall with text, video, photo and music posting, link sharing and nested comments

... integrated forum

... Calendars, World Maps, Hot or Not and numerous other browsing options

... new Events

... random quotes

... AJAX site-alerts

... new Videos, Music, Photos pages with a huge pack of improvements, new players and browsing options

... multiple files upload for media sharing modules

... new "Sites" module, replacing old "Links" page

... new Ads (classifieds)

... new eCards

... Desktop App, based on Adobe-Air

... ok, at this stage I'm tired remembering every new feature and you're probably done reading them. Just go and play, but please read this post to the end first.

Don't look at (so far)...

... floating member menu. Still at the early stage of development, this menu will feature AJAX-based Quick-IM, Presence, Friends Tracker, Alerts Tracker, Fast Mail, and more. It can be put on top and can be "frozen" there, by the way.

... OpenID support is still under development

... Google OpenSocial is already in, but not quite in full, so give it some time

... Facebook Apps support is still at the early development stage, so you can't see it

... Profile customization is going to be in as well, better than ever but not yet

... Couple Profiles are working now, but still need some thought and time

... Settings, including Privacy Settings are yet another major feature, which you can't see now but is under active development. It's a very sophisticated and exciting new system, which will allow grouping and selective control over information access/permissions for profile owners.

... speed and security. Although we made quite a few improvements, we still plan to use the professional services of MySQL consultants and security verification consultants to improve the script when all features are in.

... admin panel. It has been re-worked, but is not ready for preview yet.

... iPhone App - it's working, but you can't install it to your iPhone yet, anyway.

... Android App - not working yet and is in fact 40-50% ready

... mobile version, yes, yes we do work on mobile versions of dolphin as well. It's an optimized version of the site that works with mobile browsers.

... pages/blocks that say "under development"

... Module "Files" based on "media sharing" with any file, presented via Flash Presenter

... "micro-blogging" and Statuses (nearly done)

... More "location-awareness" functionality (getting close)

... Mobile payment, sms payment, micropayment

... Games (open platform, "widgets")

... Site-map generation, SEO improvements, targeted "canonicals" and "no-indexes" and improved URLs

... HTML notifications/letters and notification settings (a cool new system's coming up)

... matchmaking system

... community moderation tools

... affiliate, banner and advertising systems

... many other things, that will definitely be added, but I'm getting too sleepy to even try to list all of them.

So...

As you can see there is a huge list of things we've challenged ourselves to do, but trust me, the most difficult part is over - bits and pieces will be going together a lot faster now.

Dolphin 7 is 100% open-source. I mean 100%, including Flash Apps, Adobe Air App, iPhone App and Android App. We plan to start providing access to code as soon as the first Official Beta is ready.

Remember, this is a PREVIEW version only. We know about lots and lots of things that should be done, so chances are that we know what you were going to say, but don't let it stop you. Share your impressions, observations, ideas and suggestions. We're happy to hear from you, but please let's stick to the proper discussion channels:

- if you want to share you impressions/opinions - comment in this post.

- if you want to engage others (BoonEx-ers included) into a discussion, use this forum.

- if you want to give a detailed review or publish your ponderings/observations about Dolphin 7, but out of this post context - post in Blogs.

Now I just hold my breath in hopes of a warm welcome for Hookie.

drums...

THE URL:  http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a

 
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Thank you Boonex for your hard work. Dolphin 7 looks so cool.
AMAZING WORK!!!

SEEING IT NOW

KEEP UP THE GR8 WORK GUYS!! =D=D
Synergy
Thanks for all your hard work. D7 looks wonderful... now the fun begins... test drive :-)
LightWolf
Wow, you guys sure have been busy. I say "Thumbs Up" for all involved, what you got going is going to rock the internet!! Can't wait for the finishing projects. I LOVE the quickness of what you have up so far, this is great to see!
shaneed
Nice work so far. Hope to see more til the final conclusion. The main thing is to make it customizable related to look, so that our sites wont look as clones. Keep it up, is great.
Gazza
Looking pretty slick, cant wait to test it
boogerd
Looks great! I am a photo enthusiast, so I will register and check out the new album features, and hopefully, a ajax multi uploads is installed!

Thanks!
Synergy
It was worth the wait... I feel so happy... I could do the happy dance! Looking at the forum I couldn't tell because there are not any sub-categories if we will be able to be organize like the main categories... I hope so.
sammie
told you guys n gurls it has the WOW factor and was well worth the wait, so boonex well dont and god you have done a fantastic job. now i can let ma gurls look at whats comming for my site i'm so excited

yours always
sammie xXx
tyke
speechless, (for once) its magic
fidelg3
Android, iPhone, AIR desktop app, "location-awareness", etc. -- these are extremely "thinking big" technologies to embrace and incredibly extensive with many possibilities.

Personally, I am excited about mobile payments or sms payments. I foresee many vertical social networks that will sell products consumer to consumer. Easy and inexpensive mobile payments will facilitate this.

Checkout RevolutionMoneyExchange.com and Obopay.com as examples. Dolphin can partner with them see more or build its own mobile payment system. Very exciting indeed.
Stuart038
It looks good, it feels good.... When can I get a copy to play with :-))
mallorca
...to say it really short and clear..... I smelt it always before:

Congratulation Boonex, you are GENIUS, BRILLIANT, INSPIRED, YOU NAME IT!!!

Respect from me now and soon from the whole industry!

All the Best for now - and I pray for 8 with multidomain - then my business can really roll out!
DosDawg
Yes i agree, multi-domain would be an excellent benefit.
tgillen111791
No way Andre! I feel like I have missed so much. I'm not sure if you remember me but I was a big time loyal member here awhile back. School has caughten up with me this year because I'm a Junior in High School and taking 3 college classes it has left me with very little time to keep up with everything.

I just wanted to let you know Andre and the team that this is absolutely amazing. Now that things are starting to slow back down at school I'm going to do my best to be on this community every single see more day. I absolutely love the new version 7 and it makes me SOOO happy to see how far it has come. You guys are absolutely amazing.

Keep up the amazing work and I'll be sure to post a blog about some of the new features I find really useful. :] By the way Andre, so if all of the Apps are free does that mean that Ray and all of them will be included? I still have my free licenses from the old version that I haven't been able to put to good use. But I really enjoyed the free ad-based version you guys offered. How will that work now?

Talk to you guys soon!
jayjay2008
Looks very good, still has lots of problems already, can't see my profile etc and very slow, but good working progress!
DosDawg
JayJay,
maybe its not the application, but your internet connection? i didnt see any problem at all with the performance.

Regards,
DosDawg
charli
Thank you very much for the preview! Whole London is exited jumping right up to the celing :) Congratulations! I'm a big fan!
Synergy
There are so many new wonderful toys I'm like a kid in a candy shop. I haven't seen articles... please. please tell me we will still have admin articles.
mickscool
OMG, this is truly amazing...

Few years back, when I used 'Vmware' I had a feeling in my mind - "WOW"

Today after seeing this software, I have the exact same feeling - WOW !!!!

Great job guys !!!
Stellman2003
The concept of this couple still wrong.


When it comes to spouses should be just a description, not two, as well as photos.
danielmarseille
Congratulations to all - it is really fun to finally see this beautiful work - what a change since 5.6 dolphin ....
danielmarseille
not laugh at me :)

but I feel like a child who discovers the Christmas gifts

thank you for this moment
Nighto2007
WoOoOoW .. .. it's amazing version .. .. thank you so much Boonex Team , Andrey , you have great team and Dolphin7 will be the best community script in worldwide really

thank you for your hard work .. this version will have all features that I thought for my site ..

Go Go .. I'm enthusiastic for complete this work and install this to my site :)

best regards
Rawaf
CALTRADE
Good job Andrew - I am especially relieved about the licensing and your firm commitment to open source as some earlier comments on this issue seemed ambiguous. Could we also see the back-end control panel? I think people probably want to see this as much as the front end. Also, could you let us know if age and sex is still tightly integrated for those of us building business sites.

Rob

p.s. Thank goodness you improved the menu system - that terrible menu on 6.x really detracted from an see more otherwise good product and made the system very difficult to use.
DosDawg
Im with you Cal, this whole dating thing sex adaptation needs to be an option, not a leading premise of the application. and the fields profile needs to be a little more forgiving and not require us to write language strings for every profile field we create.

we shall see how this all pans out.

Regards,
DosDawg
silverado350
It looks good! Only one thing I did not like....
The bottom menu is too big. It need to be about three times smaller.

Also I tested the email.... I can email my self :)
and I can request to be friends with my self. :>))

I just have one question.
Will this integrate well with vBulletin or other forums better than Dolphin 6?
Thanks for all the hard work!
CALTRADE
That's great that you finally got the photo upload on the join page, but I just noticed - no HTML on the "DescriptionMe" field in the profile! That is major - please add it or we will all have to do a mod to get it anyway.
DosDawg
Cal,
i think that we need some form of editor, but to allow html, would also assume you allow jscript, and if you have dealt with any other open source platforms, you know that there are those little b*st*rds, that have nothing better to do with their time, than to spend it trying to tear up stuff.

I think some form of tagging utilizing braces or brackets for customizing the profiles description would be a great asset, but at the same time, we have to consider security.

Regards,
DosDawg
esteem
Execelent, two thumbs Up!
diomen
nothing to say.because i am so excited.just waiting for the code to test&research it in my own computer
CALTRADE
p.s.s. Please don't forget email alerts on forum posts - so that you know when someone has replied to one of your posts. It sounds trivial, but I think is an important element of community building.
DosDawg
Yes please dont forget email alerts on forum posts, and the prospect of being able to answer the thread from email would be another great incentive, such as yahoo groups. i have had this requested many times, and this would be an excellent feature.

Regards,
DosDawg
MichelSwiss
Beautiful great work :-))

I agree with that Dolphin has to be designed for end-users ! This is a self-evident truth !

Version upgrades could come every 6-9 months... but issues and solutions have to be published as soon as they are known !!! You will have to innovate for that too ;-))

Congtratulations ;-)
esteem
Well said and i totally agree.
DosDawg
Michel,
you are 100% correct in referring to bug tracking and fixing known and reported issues, and not rely on those of us who spend countless hours trying to figure this stuff out. although i am sure we will be the ones that fix the majority of it, it would be nice if Boonex implements an innovative measure for this approach.

Regards,
DosDawg
Bolkin
A job very well done. Fantastic. I am proud of you guys.
totallyfreak
awsome!!! very nice design and full of feature... very appreciate the google map feature... but it should turn on or off by user... maybe not everyone would like to show where they are on the map... or maybe protect by a password... so user will give the password only to those who want to tell where he live...
khmerflirt
Awsome!, Thank for the hard work for us...
echoman74
Meh,no kitchen sink.lmao just kidding it looks good and i'm gonna wait a bit. I hope css is implemented on the user profile.
Gazza
To echo some of what Caltrade said regarding business users and forum functionality.Secure E-commerce integration (oscommerce,zencart etc)??

Orca needs to be more like phpbb3 in its ease of use(image uploading,signatures etc), or an effective way to integrate phpbb3 into Dolphin.
You lads have obviously put in a huge amount of effort already - well done
PlayBox
Cool, when can I have a download!!!??
LightWolf
Probably won't be ready for a month or 2.
shankargadupudi
very Cool and great, when can I have a download!!!??
snp
thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks!!!
jtadeo
Congratulations! I know you guys have been working hard on D7 and it was great to see the preview.

Lots of great things happening as I believe BoonEx is moving in the right direction.

This is exciting :D

...sip...
lubeyourtubes
good work guys it looks Fantastic =) well done :)
mastermindsro
7 looks amazing, this will be the script of the year :)
Congratulations!
It will be nice to select the menu type from the admin area (the old horizontal menu which fits better on some templates or the new drop down menu)
I'm going now to track any bugs I can find, we all should do that for a beta version with less trouble..
lubeyourtubes
good work guys it looks Fantastic =) well done :)
Chrixxi
Wow.....thanks sooo much for all your hard work.

I still want to go with 6.1.x but looking forward to the next month....

great job !!!!!!!!
visualcrack
It is amazing....

Any bugs included with this design....
LightWolf
Do cats have fleas? Of course there will be some bugs..lol But let's hope not as many as previous versions of Dolphin.
DimLANer
Great work! It is possible to see the admin panel (screenshots or somethig) ? :)
LightWolf
They have not got that part done yet. Hang tight it will be here a lot faster now that the major work is done.
gkcgautam
ummm....MOBILE...

ah...now i need to look into field of dolphin...my work is gone!!

lol...

Great work Boonex.
Dolphin7 rocks!
gkcgautam
ops...typo eroor...

its
....i need to look into *another* field of dolphin...
TheGateKeeper
Well gkcgautam!! I am not so certain your work is done all i have heard about is a iphone capacity for V7. Well sir i am here to tell you that the whole world can not afford a iphone i will be counting on your continued support in making my site accessable to my members
rocker
7 looks more like a step backwards to me. I'm not impressed at all. The menu takes up half the page, ugly design, plus its another singles and cheating spouse site software. All the searches are for single boys and girls... not much for a mature married person to want to visit. There are no 'couple' members on the site nor a search for couples... only men and women. Sure you put the 'single/couple join form up, but thats it..if someone is signed up as a couple, how would you know unless you surfed see more every profile? Looks like you wasted your time on D7 as far as I see.
sammie
Don't look at (so far)...

... floating member menu. Still at the early stage of development, this menu will feature AJAX-based Quick-IM, Presence, Friends Tracker, Alerts Tracker, Fast Mail, and more. It can be put on top and can be "frozen" there, by the way.

... OpenID support is still under development

... Google OpenSocial is already in, but not quite in full, so give it some time

... Facebook Apps support is still at the early development stage, so you can't see it

... see more Profile customization is going to be in as well, better than ever but not yet

... Couple Profiles are working now, but still need some thought and time

.. searches: keyword search, people search, quick search (and more planned)

maybe you missed the last 2 lines ^^^^^
Andrew Boon
Couples concept is not done yet. Along with "Groups" it's being updated now in a big way, so don't get too sad right now (unless you enjoy it ;) ).
Sarichan
Single and couple join isn't the limit you know. Dolphin is very flexible. A new design is just a template away and menus are deletable. I used 6.1.4 to create a wonderful homepage not for people to be friends and not for cheating on their spouse. Couples are seen as couples clearly. It is important to get to see the flexiblity of Dolphin 6 fully before you can even make a comment saying it is a step backward. It clearly isn't.
pgge3
Finally some good news. Keep up the good work. Very nice preview release. I am waiting the beta and final release before I take out any conclusions for the 7 version.
lancashiredates
Hey Boonex, This D7 is outstanding from what I've seen, I have been playing around with it all night. I am totally knackered but still can't sleep with exitement, I have a project on hold til a stable D7 is released, but I know now that it's well worth the wait. Thanks for the updates... Your team rocks..
Andrew Boon
pgge3 is right. This case is not even in the oven yet, so we all need to work on it to turn DOlphin into a product everyone wants it to be. So far, it's just a base.

Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, and couples, and 'in-between's for the warm welcome. BoonEx team, Julia and I are very excited and have huge plans and motivation to release the world's (or worlds') best community script ASAP!
siroydolphin
[This is not related to above! Seems like you will look here.]

In the Chat(Ray), when there is no text also when enter is hit, blank text goes into the chat. This is should be fixed. Users may use this bug to flood the chatroom.

Thanks
unlimeet
look good, looking foreward to have it in my hand :)
mett
Great job, really, Dolphin 7 will be a huge jump for communities softwares.

Please test it also in IE6, now doesn't look well ;)

I don't know if you aready work on this but I would like to propose you some new features like:

1. Userpoints for adding articles, polls, ads, pictures, videos etc. With achieved points, user get coupons then buy products from an online store included in Dolphin.
2. Widget box integration
3. External applications support, for example a better forum (maybe phpbb3/smf/vb see more bridge/API ?) or Flickr, Twitter etc
4. Openstreet Map, Yahoo, Live Earth integration - allow users to choose between map layers, not everyone want Google
5. Option to easily invite friends from other social networks
6. Multiplayer games
7. Wiki

Thank you
mett
Great job, really, Dolphin 7 will be a huge jump for communities softwares.

Please test it also in IE6, now doesn't look well ;)

I don't know if you aready work on this but I would like to propose you some new features like:

1. Userpoints for adding articles, polls, ads, pictures, videos etc. With achieved points, user get coupons then buy products from an online store included in Dolphin.
2. Widget box integration
3. External applications support, for example a better forum (maybe phpbb3/smf/vb see more bridge/API ?) or Flickr, Twitter etc
4. Openstreet Map, Yahoo, Live Earth integration - allow users to choose between map layers, not everyone want Google
5. Option to easily invite friends from other social networks
6. Multiplayer games
7. Wiki

Thank you
iced
this definitely superseeded (typo error.... its friday the 13th -.-) my expectations.

This brings dolphin and boonex to the league of contemporary cms/community softwares. Well done!

Still a working progress but so far thumbs up.

As previously said, notifications is key to keeping a community active.

It would be great to have a notification or alerts for
1. friend's activities... When friends post blogs, pictures, etc (i dont know if that is there already though... as I have no friend see more yet o.O.... *sniff*)
2. Responses to a users' post, blogs, entries, vids, music, profiles etc

I love the feel of this. I am looking forward to getting the software when available and playing about with it!

Congratulations Boonex!
mett
sorry for multiple posting :(
DosDawg
Boonex Team,
From what i am viewing you guys have done an awesome wicked job. From your post with all of the new features, you have been certainly working extremely hard.

I do not see one thing posted on here, and that is the custom pages. This has not worked in the past, has this been corrected so that you are able to add new pages from the admin panel?

I am in line with Caltrade in regards to having an option for service providers utilizing this script for something other than a dating see more service. Where i know this initially started out as a spin off from aedating (spelling), there are many of us who have taken this to greater levels, and the hassle of removing all the sexual related assertments has been time consuming and difficult at times. The true aspiration of a social networking environment does not have to revolve around the entity of dating, but moreso friendships. I know facebook has extreme capabilities in that arena, and this is what most of us are looking for from Dolphin. This application has huge potential, and the fact that you guys have taken these steps shows that you have dedicated yourselves to this project.

I know that i have many clients who would have preferred the profile fields from the 6.0 version as they were much more user-friendly than what we had on 6.1. Just a few questions to ponder as this mostly has to do with the administration aspect of the site.

1. Are we still going to have to create the language strings for everything added?

2. When upgrades and updates are released are they going to be integrated updates, such as that with e107, joomla, php-nuke, post-nuke, mambo, and the other open source platforms?

3. Addons and Mods, are these going to be adaptable to straight integration, whereas there will be no need for source code manipulation, so that they act as true plugins, and we would be working from a core set of files for the application itself?

4. Has the payment system been modified, and have you added any further payment gateways i.e. google checkout?

5. What about RMS capabilities, have we made major adjustments on that and if so when are those of us who provide hosting going to be informed of necessary changes needed to the configuration of the server as well as changes needed for the RMS connection?

6. On the forums, are we going to have implemented email notifications when new posts have been put on any thread? similar to yahoo groups?

Well Great Job so far Boonex Team. looking forward to the release.

Regards,
DosDawg
bambie
Looks great, but are you going to make the upgrade to the new version simple?
mastermindsro
Any possibility to integrate Open Inviter (open-source)?
http://openinviter.com/
they already have a plugin for Dolphin 6.x
HikeMaster
It looks very very nice, I can see that a tremendous amount of thought and hard work has gone into it. Just a couple things to mention....it is slow. I mean it is sloooooooow. Are there plans to optimize on the horizon? Also, I know that Photo Albums are still under construction...but I have to mention again that I hope hope HOPE you guys are working on a a true multi-selection multi-photo uploader, by which I mean that the user can browse to a directory and pick a batch of photos all at once see more rather than the "point-click-repeat-ad-nauseum" that is currently showing in D7. The one MySpace uses is top-notch. Please make this part of D7...no one, and I mean no one wants to upload 20 photos if they have to "click-navigate-select-OK" 20 times!
ZopfWare
OMG! I've got to be one of the first on the block to drive this baby.. Sure can't wait to get my hands on the Beta... I'll test the heck out of it.

I've got about 10 new customers hanging on waiting for this product!
danielmarseille
super team for your ray of integration

it is really well done

it will give a real plus for our sites

it will be much more fun and easy to use for members


In my opinion this is missing in this version 7


it is the search by region and city


you add ;

fetured - options -
Country + Country + Country


Search people - Options
Country + Country + Country



why not change to :

fetured - options -
Country + region or state + city


add fields is on the see more registration page


and we allow in admin - to add ourselves regions by country


almost all the sites they found it function

why not on dolphin

I'm sure you can do and probably with something more


Search people - Options
Country + region or state + city
therock
Looking great Boonex. Job well done. One thing I noticed and should be added is in the photo album section there is no option to make photos and or album private or public, for members who wish to upload private photos to there private albums. There should also be the option to have an access to private photos password protected so that a member wishing to view these private photos can request the private photo password from the member who posted the private photos. Hope I exlained this good enough see more and sure you understand what I am getting at. You may already have this in mind or still working on it but wanted to point this out as it is a necessity for dating sites. I also hope that designing our own look and template will be simple. Keep up the good work. Can't wait for final release.
Sarichan
I'm very impressed with the sound and video quality.
TEQUILAtnt
More SEO!!! Please...

Very cool features but it seems that seo aspects are from version to version more critical!

1.The header is woooow toooooo loooong. Please smal header the body text shout be higher in a good seo script!

2. The ajax blocks on the frontpage produce to much urls. Open each link like top members in a new window - its a new url with the same content. Thats a seo "no go" (the links should be rel="noindex, follow"

3. The same with TAGS. Tags are producing see more duplicate content!!! For example each blog post are indexed with different urls for each tag!!!!!!!!!!!!! The tag links should be also rel="noindex, follow"

or better: rel="noindex, nofollow" - it safes the pagerank from the site!!!!!!! If you dont belive me than read seomoz.com or somethink!!!!

4. A feature or mod to heandle or change the urls in other forms. thats a great idea!!!!

PLEASE DONT FORGET SEO ASPECTS!!! There are so many dating sites all over the web. So the competition is hard! SEO is a must to have and the things which i wrote are BASIC Seo!!!!!!

Great script and a huge and greate pease of work but...
WOW!!! This is amazing! This is exactly what I have been looking for. How do I become a beta tester and put it on a live site to test it for you? Thank you for working so hard...it is amazing!

Rachel
dolphin7 is magnific.
The amount of views for topics in forum would be good, also the ability to string words in tags eg "cup of tea" via quote tags.

I think boards has huge potential as a fun photo drawing application ( but looks untouched in Dolphin 7), if people could drag and drop jpegs or png files on to it say from there desktop, also the ability to do lots more with text eg scale, reposition, transform, style it etc... Also it might be useful to have some built in props such as speech bubble, funny see more hats, noses etc, the ability to use gradients and also a decent vector pen tool.
People could draw on each others photos and make funnies etc...

BTW the date of birth field doesn't work correctly in Opera browser
tomakali
Pros:
1.Great Design
2.Great Layout
3.Great improvement in RAY
4.Great added features

Cons:
1.Speed improvement is required
2.App bar gets under RAY(chat etc)
3.Yahoo like Left categorized collapsible menu is appreciated(due to lots of sub menus)
4.Instead of Full page loading, body of the page could be loaded while clicking the menus
5.File sharing is missing


Overall: Good Job
bambie
Also it would be nice to see the upgrade come out first :)
annabel
This happened while I was sleeping. Such a nice surprise when I checked on the boonex page.

I still need some time to check it all out, but at first glance, it looks great !!
LightWolf
I see a lot of people are all ready complaining that parts of D7 don't work. Come on folks, it's not even done yet, so lets let them finish the wonderful job they are doing. As for people saying its slow, i see none of that and have no issues with its speed. Maybe it's your pc's that have issues.I think this new Dolphin is going to change the social network experience for ALOT of people. Boonex keep up the awesome work and well take care of the whiners..lol Now everyone can lay their head down tonight see more and have wonderful dreams of the NEW and IMPROVED Dolphin!
tomakali
Dude,

1.Speed: not all the countries have high speed internets. eg: In India avg speed is 512kbps
2.Due to speed and few technical something, RAY is hard to load when compared to JW FLV Media Player 4.3
3.and in my opinion Nokia mosh, Mobango kind of feature is missing badly...
FetishGear
I love the new Dolphin 7, just had a look at the demo version. thumbs up!

However i do miss the ability for people to change their profile in to their own design. This is a very important feature. Is this ability being added so our members can use html my-space profiles or just as the mod Dadniel made which is even better?
tomakali
Menu like http://www.veoh.com/ would be much nicer
sonnarinternet
Looks great so far. I do have a couple of quick questions though.

1. I noticed that the admin is not ready yet, but have the admin accounts been reworked to allow site email to be sent to them? This would be a very useful feature that is impossible in 6.x since Admins are separate accounts.

2. Would it be possible to get a preview of the SQL Schema if the tables have changed drastically, so us integrators/developers can get an idea of what might need to be changed at the database level?

Overall see more Great Work, and thanks. We're looking forward to the code being released so that we can see how everything can be implemented.
bogey
Pretty good so far, however I'm wondering about the price tag for the new Dolphin. Maybe somebody could give us some clues? Since Dophin and Ray will be one, what kind of $$$ are we looking at for a license? Is there gonna be a way to to buy only some of the functionality, some modules as it was previously, because not all webmasters want or need to run videos and music on their sites.
dmvandijk
Looks good so far...
Are languagefiles available, so we can start translating.
Have they changed a lot?

Can't wait to update my site.

Grttzz

Danny
yabgo
good news but please abut the security be carefull bcz the previous vsion any body can hacking
LightWolf
Testing the new D7 I noticed that when you go to video page, the video hides the bottom half of the menu up top when you hover over it. I hope someone can make the menu go in front of the video not behind it. It takes away half the links on the menus above video. Not sure if you are aware of this, but had to post just in case..lol I know a lot needs to be done yet.
JT1976
looks good from what i can see.., BUT locks me up on IE when i try to see it. I know its not my sys, Im on a T1 and 4 gigs ram and dual core processor. Im sure will be great when realased.
gaelson
Very nice software.
It's possible to use our template with this version without more changes?

regards and good job
LightWolf
Your templates will need to have some work done on them to fit D7. Old templates won't work right out of the box.
houstonlively
I want to use Dolphin to keep track of my herd of llamas and goats. Please add this functionality. I think it is very important to have this.
ShastaSwingers
Will there be a way to integrate existing Dolphin 6 users with Dolphin 7?
Juker
Andrew,

You have blessed us all with this peek at V7. So far I like what I see and I plan to buy my second SmartPro package within the next 30 days.

Go Baby Go!!!!

Juker
Diddy
I would like to thank the team for their great work so far, cool :-)
It feels good to handle and it seems a smooth ride to get along.
:-)
jayjay2008
When did they say they this will be completed? I think it will be months. They have yet to do some major changes
jayjay2008
When did they say they this will be completed? I think it will be months. They have yet to do some major changes. IE 7 Locks up all the time but firefox works good
osorich
it look real nice can't wait 4it
cbassthefish
Oops. Demozzz server has gone down! :o) Looks like the Dolphin 7 server ran out of disk space :P I recommend you use one of the recommened dolphin hosts listed on Boonex ;o)
houstonlively
That Hostforweb is impressive, isn't it? They should install the next build on a real web server.
clubbeyourself
houstonlively and all others listening... My vote is for Terabyte Hosting Solutions, they are the only service I am aware of that are only interested in Dolphin and Boonex and configure their servers for just that... Dolphin and Boonex products.
therock
actually hostforweb is great. I have been using them for quite some time now and have had no problems and there customer service has been great also. They do configure there servers for boonex. Personally I highly recommend hostforweb.
wildmontreal
Great! Finally much better layout!
Please consider to:
A) make PROFILE EDIT page with custom fields.
B) ability for members to PAY/UPGRADE Membership... with different levels.. such as in Search Results to appear on top if buying Premium Membership, control the number of Pictures/Videos a user can upload, etc.
C) EVENTS Search should be like profile search, so people can Filter by State, Category, etc. (Calendar/List View.
D) ADS should be seen throughout the site as GoogleAds and not as a specific see more page by itself - unless it's a Classified Ad... then design is not clear... should be like Kijiji.com layout.

Just my thoughts.
Amazing work everyone! Congradulations & Keep the good job - I WILL BE WAITING for the Code release!
LightWolf
Hey wildmontreal aren't you cold?..hehehe
Csar
very good work...

i know is not finish yet , but just incase you guys might forget . the profiles need a media player playlist.. and the ability to add music to your profiles from the music and video gallery.. and are the templates from the last version compatible with this one?

other than its looking great..=]
Tonil
Very impressive. The reason I went with Boonex in the first place! Looking forward to the official release!
clubbeyourself
Please be aware, I have also posted this blurb in the topic above this one.....lol... not double posting just think it deserves to be in both blog posts....

Here, here, exactly... everyone is pitching in and saying what about this, what about that???

Boonex can not possibly cover and grant every persons wishes as to what they want included...

As with previous incarnations of dolphin (adapt to what you need, if possible..... or NOT!)...

Not everything is possible with anything in this see more world.

For the most part, things (including software) are built for a particular purpose not for every little thing that someone needs or wants.

Please everyone also understand this is not the end product and Boonex are still working on it. They have said so and have provided enough information that should make people realise that this is not the end product and some features are not working and are still in progress as far as development goes or are being fine tuned.

Yes we all have questions about this, that and the other... will it do this, will it do that.....Patience my friends, patience...

Few of us have it (including me) but, we all need to take a step back and say...

Hey Boonex, WOW! You guys have been working so hard on this and WOW! loving what you have done so far.... Can't wait to see what you do next.

Yes we all want that extra feature and can make that suggestion but please, please do not crucify Boonex if it does not happen...

Anyway enough of my ramblings... Bring it on Boonex...

Give me the chance to break it like everyone else will and let's see what the future holds.
LightWolf
Well i don't feel anyone is asking for the moon today,we were told to post here also and think people are just hoping for the things that they need most to make their site a better site. Development is all about feed back, without it there would be no development.
houstonlively
Are you saying that I not can have goat tracking module for my dolphin? This is most important for me.
rakkassan
Looks great. My only question would be, would the mods some of us has bought and install for 6.2 will they work for 7?
LightWolf
Alot of the mods will have to be adapted to the new Dolphin 7, same with the templates. I removed mine and will start with D7 fresh. I have 98 members so far, but since mine is only a test site, it has nothing important of the members on it, then they will re-sign up again.
TheGateKeeper
Finally some good news!! The New V 7.0 looks mighty fine.. But what about us site owners that have poured a lot of money into our sites buying mods for V 6.1.4 are they going to be any damn good if we choose to update or will it be like pissing in the wind a waste of time..

I have a mobile compartment to my site at the moment but it is very limited in its functionality.. Members can not participate in groups,Blogs or forums.. Now my question is will the V 7.0 allow them accessabilty to these see more functions . And if so is it only going to happen on a iphone Most of my members that have mobile only have common phones and no funds to purchase a iphone..

Well i hope some of these questions are answered as i do not really know what plan of action to follow update or not!!

I wish you well in all your endevaours Boonex!!
houstonlively
It is not the responsibity of any software/script developer to ensure that upgrades of their product are compatible with third party addons. It is the responsibility of those that create the addons to provide updates. That's the way it works in 99.9% of the software world, and it would not be realistic to expect anything different at Boonex.

Besides, you bought the addons for Dolphin 6... not Dolphin 7.
i have tested this new dolphin7 and all i can say is : Unbelievable
will be perfect with "Mobile payment, sms payment, micropayment"
i hope the final version will come verry soon.
wave41
very slowly, lower your personal menu was bad to be like facebook
steve1
WOW . This is the best dolphin yet ! cant wait to my hands on it to see what she can really do :-)
Thanks...
Yoopla
Search by keyword(s) in all fields would be nice :-)

Looks cool!
mikebodima
Hello

I liked it , it looks great, but a question

Can it be made lighter so it can load also faster on 256 k connection?

Thanks
WePeople
It looks really great, I cant wait to upgrade.
therock
My apologies to everyone for my multiple posts above. Didn't think my post went through as I could not see it after submitting. Obviously it did.
steve189
Looking pretty damn fine from here, well done! I'm sure this will have been answered elsewhere but how tricky will upgrading an existing6.1.4 social network site to v7 be? once installed will it be possible to copy the database and photo folders etc across? Again Boobex gang, great work it looks really cool!
echoman74
lmfao,boobex would be a dolphin v9 boob addition,lol. I can't believe no one caught that.
Hello there

Will Dolphin 7 incalude Photo tagging?

Example, tagging a friend INSIDE a photo

Thanks in dvance

George ^^
houstonlively
If I gave all of you one million dollars, I bet some of you would bitch if it were all ones.
therock
Good one Houston. Lot's of winers and complainers. What's with your "Goat" thing anyway?
LightWolf
Hey goat herder can i have a buck,and not a wrinkled one, please press it so it lays flat...Thanks in advance.
houstonlively
Don't mess with me LightWolf... I'm twice as mean as I look.
hemi
I like this very much so far. Another thing I like is to see someone finally talking to this community and being on time with promises. For these reasons I will consider a renewel on my license as long as I'm takin care of over the previous license and not being able to use Boonex 6.1 because of a confirmed bug. So I hope this time the profile video upload can be charged for. As for again, that would be my main purpose of repurchasing.

I see there is still some work needed, Let me make a few simple see more suggestions with the forum area. I own a forum now that has lots of members and posts.. It would be nice to see the post count next to the topic counts, topic counts are small and tend make the forum look smaller than what it is. At my forum, it equels out to about every 5000 topics = 80000 posts. So an extra posts field on the forum home page would be nice imo.

Forum stats are also handy. A box located under the forum that shows users names online, how many topics and posts total. This is just basically pulling information.

I plan on trying to figure out how I'm going to move my current forum to the Boonex one. My users use MyBB now and we have for over 3 years. I'd like to see some basic information options available to my users if I move this one site to Dolphin. Hopefully we can ad advertising to the forums also as I have advertisers now that do advertise directly in the forum area.

It would be nice to be able to turn on or off the options feature in the search box. I don't plan on running a dating site, but a social musicians website. And I'm positive others will be buying Boonex for other reasons than dating.

Last thing I'd like to mention is please make sure this version is cross browser compatible as much as possible. :)

And to be honest, that's all I could really find that I would add to. Which isn't much. So will say great job. I look forward to hearing pricing structure and licenses issue resolution for my final re-consideration thought. It appears you are working to take care of the people and situation. So I'm prepared to give Boonex another shot more than likely.
hemi
I'm sorry, could someone explain if we are still using the same RMS Linux package as for 6.1? Thank you.
jyi123
Great job!

Be capabilities as following:
1. Member's photo and video albums can be set to private or public;
2. Album viewing option, like auto play or next;
3. Multiple album styles option, such as normal or flash page;
4. Group photo and video albums support;
5. Easy to add new features from admin panel, such as ebook and on-line shop;
6. Easy to set different skin from admin panel;
7. Request to join to a private group;
and so on .... (will add more wish listings later).

waiting see more for the Beta releasing.
music123
xcellent work yaaaaaaaaaar.......
when can i xpect its release?
Calev
Congratulations for a job well done!

I'm th' new kid on th' block so I haven't had enough time to get my site finished installing, configuring & released to the public yet and after seeing Dolphin 7 I have decided that work on my site is now completely on hold until further notice from Y'all...

All I can do is echo the words already spoken by others here & that is WOW WOW & WOW!!!

Color me impressed and say I'm done. LOL

Shalom all,
Calev
deventor
hello,
great job, excellent graphics and fast light
but remains a major doubt everything you expected but you have not created the integration with other video chat software.
qst and the main problem that many are leaving the video chat. xche not created flashchat mod x, 123flashchat .... ect ect and you will see that there will be a success even greater. xche ray chta leaves to be desired and does not fit too many bugs anything x
intel
Very well boonex :)

Dolphin 7 is cool version. There is some thing i will if you can change.

Menu on bottom is toooo biiiig, if you can make it more discrete and without this grey bold border around, And maybe make possible to move it left or right and not just up and down.

Another thing this comment or what is it on right top corner as like
"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."
Publilius Syrus"

Can members write here message which will be showed at this see more place. As LIVE MESSAGE? It's very popular. And maybe make it possible just for VIP members or something like that.

I really like 7 and can't wait to install it on my server :)

p.s.
Rudikus
Хорошая новость, надеюсь эта версия будет не такой требовательной как предыдущие.
echoman74
ohh yes for sure i noticed you said "как" makes me hungry now!!Try an english translator.
TEQUILAtnt
Great browse structure cool! More landing pages thats great! So we can optimize each site for other keywords.

Hope you make a browse ctructure also for cities not just for countries!!!!!
Juker
ALERT!! - MAJOR SCREW UP REPORT!

What on earth possessed you guys to change the BLOG TEXT EDITOR from a full featured WYSIWYG text editor allowing HTML, IMAGES, FRAMES, Etc. to a virtually useless TEXT ONLY editor.

We feature six professional (paid) bloggers and the Version 6.1.4. editor was perfect for their use. The V7 blog editor is USELESS and we hope you will restore the old one.

Respectfully,
Juker
Juker
ALSO! - (While I'm still on my soap box)

The new MEMBERS page is great!

My only question is: Can we add additional SEARCH GROUPS through the admin panel? Sex is fine, Age is fine, Country is fine, but we want to add searches by Member Levels and name searches by Alphabet letters.

Thanks,
Juker
totallyfreak
im happy to see that finally there will be category in the video section... the only thing missing is the possibility to add embed video... not only uploaded one... so people who want to add a video that is already on youtube or other video sharing website... so this way it will save our bandwidth and server space hard drive....
echoman74
steve189 has inspired me. Please review his post and tell me if you agree,lmfao!!
ladybugn
Houston, I've worked really hard, your goat herd mod is ready now. Features ability to match goats for breeding and upload of lineage charts..

Will pre-install it for you before 7 is ready, save time! Order now, and get free Sham-wow and the jinzu-goat knife!

10 bucks. :D
houstonlively
Ten Bucks!!! Can we work out some kind of payment plan?
echoman74
I prefer sheep !!! What the hells with the goats?
Besides you can count sheeps in your sleep, not goats just doesn't sound right. :) I want the ability to have the ability of the ability.That would be awesome aswell.
houstonlively
I figure if people are requesting every little mundane feature on earth, they may as well work on a realtime, GPS goat tracking module to round things out.
Jose47
Could software get any slower? Not possible. It takes 42 seconds to load with a high speed DSL connection. I understand it's still being developed, but if the speed isn't improved by about 1,000 per cent, this software won't be worth the effort to install. It is slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Barber
I agree, D7 is wayyyyyyy tooooo slow (so far). Hopefully they'll speed it up a lot.
teamshabazz
Looks great guys/gals. Will there be a new owners manual ready with it's release?
shaan
Happy to see that Dolphin is moving towards complete Open Source.
orion
Great work, but there are always a bug when a member logout : he still appears "online" on the site (the bug was on 6.1 version) , also in desktop, he stays a long minutes appearing online.
try to fix it like msn : if he logout, the results appears immediately in the site and on desktop.

Thanks
Rasili
Hello everyone I have stop by these forums many times and read peoples comments on many issues and never participated and I’m feeling real guilty about that right now. So now I’m feeling the need to comment on the new Dolphin 7, but first let me say this, I love Dolphin make no mistake about this, I think it is one of the most powerful social networking, dating scripts ever. However technology is always changing as we can bare witness to with our own Dolphin 7. The reason for me placing this see more post is to get some feedback from those of us who are determined to see Dolphin become the most powerful script period bar none. Now, with all that said, there is a website that I have run across that offer very powerful features that I think dolphin should implement. The name of the website is www.videngage.com it offers the following to its members.. Video Profiles, Video E-Mail, Video Dating, Video Resume, Video Conferencing, and Video Bazaar not to mention they have a powerful affiliate program in place. Now let me make myself totally clear I’m not trying to promote this site I think over all they are no match for Dolphin but they do have some interesting video features. So that brings me to this question, why can’t Dolphin have video e-mail? My guilt about this matter is the fact that I could have raised this months ago and maybe video e-mail would have came with Dolphin 7. Maybe no one feel there is a real need for these video features, but it seems to me that video broadcasting and implementing video is where the internet is going. Please can I have your feedback?
tiimz
The update is incredible, and I congratulate the team on your great work!

I have ONE major suggestion, which I believe would make this product infinitely more versatile. I think there should be an addition of a 1 click option in the Admin panel to remove all Relationship, Male/Female, Couple, and Hot-or-Not type instances from the site. This OPTION would make this software much more versatile, and useful to a larger audience who may want to use it for other purposes.
Stuart038
That is a brilliant idea, how about it Boonex?
nay27uk
I have to say well done. ive joined up and absolutly love this new version. lets face it to be the best community site out, you have to be beter than facebook, I.E offer more features than facebook, and dolphin 7 is a step in the right direction. the profiles are a big step in this direction and now resemble facebook somewhat, however one thing missing is the what are you doing now text box. I enitialy downloaded dolphin to setup a website that was facebook, beebo, faceparty, myspace, flikr, youtube, see more And all the other leading comunity sites intergrated into one website. I have to say thanks for listening to us all on this version 7 of dolphin. you alredy have the youtube, flikr intergarated. And now in this new version the intergaration of the facebbok style. this is so good and i thank you. As your name states DOLPHIN SMART COMMUNITY BUILDER, please look more to the comunity site in this version than a dating site, as most people downloading your wonderfull script, download it because they want a community site not a dating site. Please look at the websites i have listed above, Take your time to join up and review how they work, An implement this into your script. Do away with the horid GREAT BIG footer saying dolphin, smart comunity builder, orca, interactive forum script, and Ray, comunity widget suit. People running your software dont want people to know what they are running this makes way for PIRATES people copying a site, People running your sexy script dolphin, Wish to remain anonymous they want people to visit the site and say WOW I LOVE THIS THIS PERSON IS SO CLEVER. My sugestion is build into dolphin an advertisment section, REMOVE ALL THE ADVERTISING, form ray, orca, and dolhin and make it into a seperat section called advertising. make it part of the licence that anyone downloading dlphin hase to display a link back to your website, But make this link at the footer like SMF for example just a text link, you will find more people willing to leave the link in place, ive been running SMF forum software since version 1.0 and because they only put one small text link at the footer of the script i have actualy positioned a big banner link to the SMF site on all of my pages of my meny SMF forums. ju8st as a thank you to them for the descrepency of advertising. If dolphin was like this "I CAN GURENTEE YOU" People will have a banner link back to you on thier site. Also if you take away the REDICULAS advertising you have in dolphin you will find more people donating to dolphin, in actual fact you will find you make more money from donations than you curently make from add free shit. Give the people what they want BELIVE ME THEY WILL REPAY YOU
earpick
It took a bit of patience to get through the unison of orgasmic replies but am yet to see any sort of question about the new code improvements and security fixes. Hopefully the source code will be available soon because a new UI is great and jQuery, AJAXing up every other button, and introducing an an for Android, a platform which currently a single phone in the world supports, is all nice and dandy but I'm more concerned about needing to endlessly patch D6.1 and shiver from all the spaghetti code see more I encounter daily.
earpick
Oh, and please -- take your time and get on 'the edge': boonex.com still does not display the login/password box when browsing using Chrome.
siroydolphin
The Videos are very hard to see and takes long time to download in a 1mbps connection. Could you please look into this.
Juker
BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE AND REPORT

After 48 hours of close scrutiny of V7 (admittedly without access to the Admin panel) I am convinced that, as with the prior big releases, NO focused effort to meet the software requirements for the "Business Community" has been taken.

Once again this new release is entirely slanted towards the Dating Niche and once again at great expense and loss of time, our lot is to surgically remove all of the dating crap and virtually reprogram the Dolphin package see more to suit our needs.

I suggest that "we" the businessmen who are tired of being overlooked, join forces and take steps to resolve this problem.

Since Boonex supports Expertzzz and is doing nothing to stop the robbery and commercialization of every "IDEA" that might be useful - Why don't we contribute $100 each to hire someone to create the "Dolphin Enterprise Module". With 50 contributors we can produce a MOD which will transform "Dolphin Dating" into "Dolphin Business" - and then we can sell the MOD on Expertzzz for $998 (The price of a SmartPro package) and we can all have Ad-Free Dolphin forever and forever. AMEN!

Juker
darja22
WOOOW!!

Very, very nice!!

Where and when can I download:))?
Keep on the good work!
insanespeed
Vbulletin integration (especially since it was a listed feature for v6)....and a more granular classifieds section are both very necessary. (ex: chevrolet :: parts :: interior)
kobra699
For now, great acting and different from the last version, in the sea of information and disinformation, it would be good to say, when and who will be able to take the new version of Dolphin, whether the template for the new version of the final and only in the interest of the community should have more as a possible option, it must be taken into account, that there are many people who are enthusiastic and that the majority has no knowledge or money to do the changes in the appearance of your site, see more and one who would want to buy a license for Dolphin should to have a choice of how the software looks in a different environment. To repeat, for now it looks great, but the usage will prove good or bad side, just forward:)

Note: I already wrote a comment somewhere, but I can not find it, like it was deleted?, I hope that this commentary will remain ...
TuxCol
Is Perfect, wow nice job!!!
sunny_sharma
thanx boonex for providing us with the power of dolphin7

secondly i have a doubt. i am new in this industry.i was planning to start my social networking site with dolphin 6.1.4 just then i got to know about dolphin7.My qustion is that will i would be able to upgrade my site to dolphin7 in future from 6.1.4 without losing my database? are you going to provide any update patch to dolphin7 ? or i should wait for the release of dolphin7.Also tell me the expected release date. thanx
You can't hear me right now, but I am screaming of how amazing this looks! WOW! My site is for the medical/biotech/pharmaceutical industries it would be really nice to have a job posting module as well so I could have employers post jobs, jobseekers search, upload resume/CV, etc. I have one now but it is not very effective. If this cannot be done then I will have to purchase job board software elsewhere and then build it to match Dolphin. Looks fantastic! Does anyone know when the new release see more is coming out??
tiimz
An option to display the first and last name, rather than the Username/Nick sitewide (like facebook, and most recently, myspace currently use) would be a welcomed change
dpi
Can't wait for this to be available. The only things I noticed so far:

1. Error on age. I put in my birthday, but it is saying I am 28, not 27 like I should be. I double checked that I put in my birthday correctly, but still showing as a year older.

2. No Profile customization. Unless I am missing something, there is no way to customize the look of your profile? Would be nice to have something like the admin section of 6.1 where you can move around modules and change the size of the columns. see more At least something to set your profile apart from other peoples.

3. I am hoping the ability to let people automatically choose a membership level upon initial signup is included, or automatic promo membership status upon signing up for a non-paying membership. This has been my only real complaint about 6.1.

4. Will the paid-for extensions that may have been installed on 6.1 still work with 7?

5. Love the admin panel at the bottom of the page, and the ability to change your status dynamically.

I guess the only other thing that everyone else is also asking, is when I can get my hands on this?

Cory
HernanL
Very nice look! Just one simple concern, with so many buttons, you might consider building a 2 row tabbed menu. It could look very cool.

Also, what´s up with translations to Spanish and other languages?

Thanks for the great work you do for all of us!

Regards,
H.
bojko1991
can i update from 6.1.4 to 7?
peterWAKA
The Optimized Mobile Version is a great idea. I can now vreate an iphone/ipod app which can direct theme to my network!!
Can't wait till 7 comes out:D
leif007
Well...I use DRupal alot and noticed this has a good deal of mods that Drupal doesn't. I installed this on a client's server per his request and Dolphin 7 is almost too slow to test..I have no idea about the bugs because it moves so slow. It looks like the features from a social networking stand point have potential to beat drupal in this market but I am hoping the full version of 7 comes out soon or when it does it is faster..It's way too slow for me to deal with.
sharams
Oh man this looks great, can't wait till I get my hands on this one I tell you........I want it now......thank you boonex people....looks awesome.
blondie63
Is there a virtual appliance just ready to download with latest Dolphin ??
 
 
Below is the legacy version of the Boonex site, maintained for Dolphin.Pro 7.x support.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
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