Trident a11 - The Last Alpha

This is the last "alpha" release of the Trident platform. Next one will be a beta, which means we won't be adding any more new features until final release. So, between now and Beta it is the last chance to squeeze in some new functionality or even changes in existing features. Feel free to share your ideas in comments. 

Another important piece of news is the beginning on Trident extensions sales (we'll be calling the "apps"). While most of the apps are free, we'll be selling 3 apps - Albums, Invites and "Ocean" Template. At this stage we mostly want to test buying process, installation, updates, licenses checks, etc. Our prices may also work as an indication of what we expect to see as a general pricing benchmark of different apps. Albums, for example, being a full-blown module is priced at $50. Invites (allows for "invitation only" registration and sending invites to friends) is a smaller module with basic functionality - $20. And a design template is $30. Currently it is still possible to download those modules for free from GitHub and test them. If you do buy them, however, your purchase would be remembered and honoured when the final versions become available. 

What's new in Trident a11

- Albums

Media upload and sharing is finally available in Trident. Instead of separating media types we decided to allow uploads of both photo and video formats, since they seem to be generally sitting side-by-side in real-life use cases. Albums have individual pages for every media file, comments and "darkroom" gallery.

- new reCaptcha

- Russian translation

- classes auto-loader

- plugins updated to the latest versions: spin.js, ffmpeg, masonry, moment.js, jquery auto-resize, tinymce, timepicker addon, jquery, fontawesome

- new images engine (with images auto-rotate)

- original image format is preserved during resizing

- improvements in administration tools

- fixes and improvements in Studio

- design fixes and improvements

- cover images in persons and orgs modules can be deleted now

- persons and orgs profiles can be edited without uploading new image

- description field in persons & orgs modules

- sex field was removed from persons module (yeah, last shadow of "dating" is gone)

- unified moderation without splitting to admins and moderators pages

- design improvements and fixes in Timeline

- full view mode for Posts snippets

- "Note" text for invitation request in Invites module

- order support for different sections in search results

Links and Plugs

Plug 1: This is Alpha. Not feature-final. Not tested. Not to be used on production sites.

Plug 2: Already installed sites should be updated automatically.