Final Roadmap for Dolphin 7

Andrew Boon posted 17th of April 2009 in . 84 comments.

As promised, we've updated the roadmap today. Some of your suggestions have been added to the 7.0 and some to 7.1 milestone and now, we're "freezing" the features list.

What this means is that we won't be adding or changing anything big, except for what's listed in the ticket list and unless there're compelling reasons to do so.

We will be fixing bugs, improving performance and tweaking modules here and there to make sure they're easy to use, work perfectly and are easy to understand.

Admin part of the script will be mostly "adapted" to control existing features, so we're not adding tickets on it so far. Will do so a little later, however.

So, here's the final list. You can track development progress by noting tickets getting closed. Next alpha update is planned for Tuesday.

 
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mallorca
Thanks for the update. Good Luck - and hopefully v7 comes now finally really to the end/release .....
iced
I have been away for a little while and have missed a lot. I guess this is too late but one great addition will be to allow admins to ban users via IP.


This stops the banned user from coming back with a different name and email and continue their unsociable act.

Please give it a thought.

Cheers
MichelSwiss
As far as I can see, ban users via IP is already here in D 7...
okiewardoyo
let us see your work andrew...
TheGateKeeper
Awesome i can hardly wait to see the finished product
sammie
i dont see anything about the call backs to boonex, this was confirmed by VictorT that this will change, or is it part of the admin list you havent added yet?
sammie
mastermindsro
I have a dolphin script installed on localhost, everything with free license just to test it out..
if it happens to go offline for a minute nothing works anymore, then i need to re-register every single plugin.. this is so wrong.. i think the callbacks should only be present in administration panel.. is not right to callback every page loaded by users.. i don't want to imagine the bandwidth needed just for this..
sammie
the call backs only happen when:
#1 you login to admin
#2 update licenses (ugrade to adfree from free)
mastermindsro
yeah.. you're right.. sorry, I was not thinking very clear at the moment..
that was a noobish :))

any ideas on how to improve them?
mastermindsro
this version of dolphin can't go wrong.. there have been so many ideas from so many members and you guys really heard us..
nothing more to add.. perhaps.. just another thank you!
MichelSwiss
I don't see anything about Photo/Video Albums and "killing" Shared Photos and Videos :-(

Essential, basic, useful and really needed features like Profile Customization and Bad Words Filter are one more time postponed :-((

Avatars of old are still here :-((

No details about how Privacy Settings will be done and which options will be chosen...

I don't like to be negative but that smell the "script with a great potential"... I hope that I'm wrong...
eclectech99
I did see that they did add a ticket for privacy-photos-videos-music, etc..

Your right though....no details. We will just have to wait and see on that one.
CALTRADE
Why are shared photo's etc so horrible? I don't use them so I don't know much about it, but have heard others mention it here. What goes wrong when you use them?
MichelSwiss
Lot of users are lost and don't understand the concept... They think they are uploading photo to their profile...

Now with D7 alpha (I know... not yet finished), all kinds of photos, profile - shared - event - etc..., all are mixed and displayed as shared :-( Same with videos...
all looking good, will give our community a massive push as soon as Dolphin 7 released...

"hilarity begins at home"
totallyfreak
ok i ask again the question because i got not reply on the last post.... what's happen with the GAMES module... i see in the trac that its been closed... but the reason is because its done or its cancelled?

thx
MichelSwiss
iPhone (used by a few rich people) App, is here but not Mobile (long time worldwide used) version is postponed :-(

Floating Menu still floating over content ? Why to put content if it will be hidden ??? :-((

That is very nice is that Dolphin will have built-in Store and shopping cart :-))
Contact Importer, improved Matchmaking and Cupids mail, HTML Notifications/Letters, HTML in Mass Mailer are also very good things :-))
eclectech99
Im assuming that we are not the only ones who saw the floating member menu over the top of the website content. They had to have seen it, and I would hope that issue will be fixed. Once again...we shall see.
MichelSwiss
I'd like to be as sure as you... For example, I'm not sure of that they have see that, if position set to bottom, this horrible Floating thing is displaying under the status bar of the browser :-))

The main problem is that they are programmers with a deep and wide knowledge... They don't know (or forgot) about the difficulty to use a Dolphin site for a simple basic Internet user...
Most of Dolphin site potential users will not spend at least one hour to learn about how to use it... Navigation, see more choice of any option, etc... has to be really intuitive.

Intuition and knowledge are not living in the same part of the human brain. Tests made by programmers are good to find bugs, but such tests are not enough. The script has to be tested by people who are just browsing Internet from time to time too.
eclectech99
I guess that is why I'm hoping we will have complete customization from the admin panel. If so, Ill make the navigation as simple as possible myself. Although that will be impossible if too many details are overlooked when creating the admin panel.
totallyfreak
another question... it is possible for the admin to see the entire info of a account member... including the password... it could be useful if the admin need to login into the member account to edit something in the account of the member when a member dont respect some posting rules.... and if the member dont cooperate... and you dont want to delete his account... just login into their account a edit what you want...

so the admin.. if you are a real admin of your website... should be able to see more admin anything... even to see or change the password of all the members...
MichelSwiss
You're right :-) I'd like to see the profile thumbnails in the profile edit page too (like until 6.0 version).
sammie
sorry passwords are private, there is no reason for anyone to have access to a members password, not even the site owners.
that is the one thing that will never be an option, it just breaks all the privacy rules and adds security issues as well as legal issues.
MichelSwiss
Sorry sammie but nothing could be wronger than that you said... as everything, all datas, all content, is availabe to the site Admin from the database or site folders... totallyfreak is just asking for some easy way to reach/edit these infos.
eclectech99
Well...Im super excited. That gives you guys two months to get the existing features built, concentrate on a killer admin panel, and get as many of the bugs worked out as possible (before beta).....thats alot of work. I do not envy you. Good luck...and if you can pull off most of the "feature" tickets....we will all have a very cool platform to work from!
MichelSwiss
Yeah... this is a lot of work.

But maybe be ready for some frustration... Until now I ever seen 99% good things builded on a 1% wrong choice that kiil most of the pleasure... :-)) I call that BoonEx Syndrome :-))
signalzero
Will "Groups" be functional at any time or improved upon? As of now it's still under development with no mention of it in the roadmap. Groups are one of the most important functions of Dolphin for me and my members. I hope it doesn't get overlooked.
Nighto2007
Hii

thank you for update .. I saw the feature list .. it's great But what about mobile version and profile styles or customize ..
and I wish invite contacts are as like facebooke and Hi5.. I mean
when I import my contacts list check if my friends regesitered in this site if it's Ok .. I can added to friend list directly then go to other contacts that not regesiter in the site for invite them to the site .. I wish my idea is clear :)

regards
MichelSwiss
You ideas are clear and I share them ;-)
LightWolf
I have been asking about profile customizing for a long long time, it seems they don't want to answer this issue. I know it's not important to some, but for my site it is the #2 important things after security. I'm not asking for the world trade secrets, just if this option will be available in D7.
contact importers including facebook/openinviter/viral inviter are all having problems at the moment accessing hotmail accounts for importation (96% of our community members)....
esteem
Exactly, boonex doesnt seem to understand how contact importer works. It is fine they add this feature now but what if all the social network sites start blocking contact imports?Hmmm.
MichelSwiss
Don't worry and have a look there: http://openinviter.com/index.php
Ticket #569 (new task)
can see this being areally good feature, expertzzz can design various visualisers and sell them say in packs of 5 or 10, makes music more interesting :-)
MichelSwiss
Yeah... but this is another toy... I'd like BoonEx to focus on tools :-))
annabel
Since sms payment is postponed to v7.1, will there be at least an option for admin to make own payment method (through bank account f.i.) ?

SMS payment is one of the most popular payment methods nowadays, it really sucks that you are postponing this.
MichelSwiss
I' m with you for "at least an option for admin to make own payment method" ;-)
annabel
No price settings for the script yet ??? Please, give us SOME idea instead of making us wait 2 months and then to find out we cannot afford it.

I have a bad feeling about this ... and I think many others as well.

In my opinion you're going to give the 6.1 for free and the 7 will cost a lot of money.
killerhaai
I have the same feelings...
sammie
unoboonex has already stated that it will be more affordable than it is now.
what more do you want?
annabel
If granted free licenses still work in V7 I'd be happy to pay a small contribution for ad-free license. But I'm here for 2 years, waiting and contribuing for a GOOD script, so I guess Boonex should tell us about their intentions concerning price-settings.
CALTRADE
Well cool, I got a few in under the wire - support for real names, TinyMCE in the profiles description, and (along with Youdidn't) multi-word tags. I'd still like to see groups added from a join form drop-down, email alerts on "replies" from an Orca forum, and a few others- but I absolutely understand a feature freeze - please get on with it.

Rob

p.s. What will that "store" feature be? Does that mean that just admin can start a store? - or are you saying all our members see more will be able to have stores?
hey
this is MUST in 7.0 version : Mobile payment, sms payment, micropayment
is a long awaited feture.
please include that on your priority list
annabel
Andrew told me it's not going to be in version 7, but is has to wait until 7.1
jctwebsites
Keep up the great work guys!
insanespeed
Wow so disappointed to see none of the essential suggestions I have made being added as features/fixes. Especially disappointed to see that vbulletin integration was not added especially as many of us PURCHASED vbulletin because Dolphin ver 6 incorrectly listed it as a integration feature..I believe it still does. Also no mention of classifieds improvements or articles improvements I listed many times. Very disappointed. Looks like it may be time to search for a different solution for my upcoming see more sites.
bambie
I agree vbulletin is the best and they state it can be integrated with the aemodule, and never has it worked.
cosmobc
so the Facebook Apps compatibility has been dropped from the list?

why is it so?
It was announced in the first post when the first preview of Dolphin 7a was shown to the public.

That would've been a great feature...
Hope that you will add it in Dolphin 7.1
Evandromar
Dolphin this incredible! and post a comment here again, I believe that this should be reviewed by a team boonex.
vizualizando need to be a picture of an album such http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a/photo/gallery/Vista-Wllpaper here must have the navigation buttons to navigate between the photos of that album, without having to back to album to see other photos.

Boonex good work.
Rasili
Well I see video e-mail to site members was not added to the list, I guess there was not enough people here to demand this in Dolphin 7 how sad.
LightWolf
I totally agree, this is a big disappointment. If we are lucky maybe they will add this and profile builder to 7.1 We have been asking for these and i am willing to wait 1 more time for D7 but that's it. If they don't have at least one of these features i will have to move on. Such a waste of my time and money. I just lost my job so now no money, no website, and from looks of the new plans without profile builder i will have no website left. People want to express themselves,and stand out from the see more crowd.

I don't understand why they cannot create the mod that is available in downloads for profile. This is not a BIG thing to have to ad, it isn't like building a space ship. And every social net work should come with this mod and with video email. The uses of video email are many and would work great for me and my members to send readings through email,live on cam.
hemi
Very disappointed Orca will be left bare bones at best without even basic features to help an administrator that has a large community. On top of that, we'd still need to integrate other forum software to get anything decent for control or features. This is a benefit to the entire Boonex community. Not worth it to me to transfer a large forum community for sure. Updated featured Orca would of been the only reason for me to purchase extra Dolphin licenses.

At this point since I haven't been able see more to use the software due to a bug Boonex refused to fix since the new software was being developed and it's been 6 months and looking like a couple more, plus Orca will stay bare bones. I must ask for a refund now and will send a email asking to reimbursed. Time for me to move on.

Regards
maxfard
How about Forums, can you allow people post their stuff?
Can you change ORCA too?
JasonVan
Does anyone know anything about price? For existing dolphin owners? New purchases? Please post here. I haven't heard a thing yet.
shankargadupudi
Thanks for the update. Good Luck.... So when can we expect the final version to be release to public? I am eagerly waiting for the new version to use on my site?
Diddy
Thanks for your hard work and hopefully all Dolphin users will be happy some day :-)
insanespeed
Looks like I'm definitely not the only one asking for forum integration...would be nice to at least see some sort of response from boonex to our request (especially as mentioned regarding those who bought vbulletin off false advertising of Dolphin 6 supporting the integration)
llektor
The problem with lang fil Hebrew
When registering, specify the option in sex, in place of a male is a female or male in the place of women
And so in all versions of Dolphin
I tried to swap lang file Hebrew, but the profile shows the opposite sex

Give what you can do
boogerd
I don't see anything about revamping those photo albums with albums and ajax uploading - will this be added to a future version?
asantebiz
I do not understand the customization for the member side of things- if you have members -once the member sign in click on the little guy next to the dashboard and go to profile--profile you have a customization or customize (profile customize) the choices of themes are few to none-

The question is how do you give the member more choices in selecting themes........??? by the way my website is webeyedol.com

Is there a place to download themes-and add in??
 
 
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