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Dolphin 7 (Hookie). Alpha Build 16.

One more update of Hookie Alpha today. Some interesting things to look at, most importantly...

- Privacy settings. So far you can touch them at Sites and Feedback modules. it's only a start - we're improving them now and will add to all modules. Members will able to make content public or private, and restrict it to friends/members or predefined groups.

- Member menu is gradually improving - a little smaller now, has tooltips, red-counters, some fixes and will soon have built-in messenger.

- Notifications will now appear as Growl-like pop-ups in upper-right corner of the site and will be reflected in member menu.

- Events now have administration module for owner. Similar "admin block" concept will be deployed on all modules, so that members could easily add/edit/delete content on their pages, like photos, blog, articles, etc.

- Membership purchase interface, shopping cart, payments administration are now being added and you can give it a glance. Payment/cart functionality is palnned to be site-wide and can be used for Store, Ads, even Photos, if needed.

- Account/Dashboard is being redesigned too. It will also have site/friends tracker, similar to what you see at facebook.

- We test some changes in navigation menu, such as "icons" instead of test for some tabs and search-in-tab. We'll see how it goes.

- Sites module is getting better, with new subtabs, such as Featured and Hot-or-not.

- Current location feature added to profile-map (Google Maps)

- Youtube embeds for video, they now work same as native site videos, with their own pages.

- Some fixes in media uploads and other site features... many of them.

All-in-all it's pretty hot here. 7.0 and now 6.1.5 are all around us, day and night. Great times. Stay tuned.

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HotGate
Well done, the "icons" in the navigation menu sounds interesting.
MichelSwiss
... possible but quite difficult as icons will have to be really explicit...
sammie
Your current membership (Standard) doesn't allow you to use chat.

^^^^^^ oops i think someone made an error
shankargadupudi
Great to here the good news. I am eagerly waiting for the release of this new version... When it will happen?
signalzero
Uploading youtube videos fails with a file error.
sammie
i have to say i am very impressed with how D7 is looking and the new dashboard
HotGate
Admin access to D7 ... is that available to Pundits/Staff members only or Contributors also ?

Please clarify.
grv
when will it be available?
sammie
i dont have any special access as a pundit, just access to Trac to edit the documentaion and stuff.
HotGate
None of the links on the homepage inside the "Videos" block work.
Try clicking any of the video thumbnails and it gives this error:

checkAction() fatal error. Unknown action ID: 0



Also, the new icons in the navgation menu look good altough the one for the search box is inappropriate. It does not need to come under an icon. It will look much better if the search box is placed under the QUOTES in the header rather than the navigation menu. Looks a little mismatched.
HotGate
Also on this page and other similar pages:
http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a/search.php?show=birthdays

There is a "bread-crumb" ... HOME > PEOPLE > SEARCH

We think its not needed there. The sub-menu already shows you that you are in the PEOPLE category so from a design point of view the bread crumbs they don't make any aesthetic sense.
sammie
BUG
i am listed a top rated for Day on the male side as well as the female side.
Diddy
Sammie, which one are you? :-)
enjoy and have a great time!
LightWolf
Cover both sides are ya Sammie...lmao I think they call that a split personality.
ZopfWare
rotfl, I guess they just decided that you were really butch and put you on both sides!
ehabheik
Is there an upgrade path between alpha releases up to the beta and the stable? If so that would make us interested in testing with you.
sammie
Boonex do not make an upgrade patch for alfa or beta or RC, only final.
mickscool
You can hire someone at expertzzz i guess
mickscool
>Youtube embeds for video, they now work same as native site videos, with their own pages.

Thanks a lot, you made my day by adding that feature in D7. But as other people reported, its not working currently, but I think that would be fixed soon.

For the first time, I really like the way the 'member menu' displays now..it looks pretty good !!!

Great Work Guys...
killerhaai
Ajax login box is not working with Opera browser. I got a light overlay screen only.
giuscan77
I have got dating site ... or at least I thought, I had seen that Dolphin 7 is a project that looks like a very poor copy of FaceBook. The commercial line of Boonex not like me anymore. It is not practicable for a Dating Site, it is a Social network from masked dating site. I spent a lot of money with you and now I am without anything. It is not a project, I find it very confusing, you do not see what your goals. One day you say one thing and another the next day completely different. I would like see more to change software but I do not know what is right for me, please if anyone knows a software to get serious "only" a dating site can be done ahead and tell me now. I have already prepared a major marketing plan for my site but I realized that Dolphin can not implement it. Help me to find the best on the market, no matter the money that I have to spend. Thank you.
JasonVan
Hey giuscan77,

Your post is very unclear. There are tons of dating scripts available online, just type it into google. However, if you don't want to wait for Dolphin 7, try using Dolphin 6.1.4 or wait a few days for Dolphin 6.1.5. These are very good social networking scripts that can also be used for a dating script. However, you will need to do some major modifications to your index page. If you can't do this, find a script elsewhere.
LightWolf
Boonex will come out with another dating site after the release of Dolphin 7 hang on tight, or move on...your choice. But you will NOT find anything better then here!
Mindriot
I understand your frustration. Here are your options:

http://www.wazzum.com

Their customer service is the best of any software company I have seen. The software is top notch with video chat.

http://www.abk-soft.com

Horrible customer service but the dating (not social networking) software mostly works. Just don't count on friendly support and they do not give refunds.
totallyfreak
embed youtube video dont work...
video upload failed (file error)

and why upload? i dont want this youtube video on my server... i just want to stream it from my website as an EMBED video...

the membership is also missing... i cant test the payment gateway system because there is no package in the membership section...

but for the icon and the popup info menu... this is perfect!!

i just cant wait for the 7.0 !!

but it will be possible to update from 6.1.5 to 7 ?

thx
Nighto2007
thank you for update

nice work about new Member menu, Privacy settings, Account/Dashboard

about navigation menu I think nice design but if you add icon it will need to expan when the mouse move over it as like the bar ..

I have suggestion for the member menu : I wish add the language icon to it and remove it from the navigation menu I think it will be fave

about Account/Dashboard .. great design but I wish add friend activity below mail box .. I think it's important

thank you see more for read my comment :)

best regards
Rawaf
CALTRADE
Still no "My Blog" link!!!
Diddy
and no My Video, My Music and so on :-)
todaler
Yes they do, it's under Profile. Look in the menu bar under Profile and you will see Blog - Video - Music and so on...
Diddy
wow, the first look is really more nice than at the start. Great.
I'm really impressed since I was last on demozzz.com/dolphin7a a couple of weeks back.
I'm pretty sure that everyone will be happy when its out for all.

Member verification photo upload module would be nice, especially for juveniles website below the age of 16 to give the kids a bit security as well as the admin.
Which is of course good as well for dating sites and shopping cart.

Thank you all for your great work and the countless see more hours you guys work on D7 for all of us :-)

Respect, Diddy
LightWolf
Diddy it seems every time you post, someone is giving you the thumbs down. Come on now, are we not ALL adults here. Give up the childish behavior and get a life, this is ridiculous people. How about if we use the thumbs vote for important issues and not for personal anger.


I have never seen so many angry people on this forum tell lately. Take your personal problems to im or email,we all are trying to help with this awesome software and have no use for children on this site! This is NOT a playground see more for bored children!
CALTRADE
Why is the "description" field not on my profile page? I assume it is just a block you can drag there. More importantly, why isn't there a TinyMCE editor in the description field? This has been the subject of endless discussions, and some mods, on Unity.
Diddy
Buc
when I click on my video from the profile http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin7a/video/gallery/Ken-Block-2009-03-14
then I get
checkAction() fatal error. Unknown action ID: 0

When I click on Membership I have a database error.
TEQUILAtnt
Think about a facebook integration like "Facebook Connect" http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php

Thats a greate way to generate traffic from the biggest community.
arphaus
This would be great - especially if you could pull profile info from Facebook. This has been done for Drupal already, and it makes it much easier for people to get started.
danielmarseille
you really have done a great job

but I think what is lacking in dolphin

it is the search by region / state

I do not understand why you do not add

for sites that are a single country - the members love to be able to see and looking for members close

you add;

fetured - options --
Country + country + country

People Search - Options
Country + country + country

why not change to:

fetured - options --
Country + region or state + department or counties


add fields on the see more registration page


and we allow in the admin - add oneself regions, country


Almost all sites have this function

why not dolphins

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