Somebody wake me up ....
When a working Dolphin platform becomes a reality. I've been screwing around with this for 3 years now, and the news that Dolphin 7 is being abandoned in lieu of the next great thing, just took all the wind out of my sails. I'm demoralized... completely. I will be in hibernate mode until further notice... as far as building a social site. In the three years that have elapsed since I first wanted to build a localized site, Facebook usage has grown exponentially to the point where a localized site may no longer be a realistic vision. I really don't see a way of pulling it off at this point. It seems to me that the only people attracted to Dolphin based sites, are spammers, or people looking for internet porn.
If Dolphin 8 appears while I am still young enough to function without nursing home assistance, I'll see what it can do. At this point however, I cannot possibly imagine what the platform will offer, that will "Wow" people. I certainly hope it's something, or I will have wasted countless hours of my life that I will never get back. If Dolphin 8 is going to be another 3 years in the making, I'm afraid that will just be the end of any ambitions I had about creating a social site.
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There's 1 good thing about this story ... I learned something about PHP and MySQL and I'll remember the good old days when mods were free of charge and people were willing to help see more
Please, refer to where you're reading it? We are committed to D7 for small fixes and we're doing some deeper fixes and improvements and plan to call the result D8. In fact we dropped Trident in favor of D7 platform and work on it full time. It's exact opposite to dropping it.
As far as I am aware of we haven't announced D7 retirement. Definitely don't plan to do it in for at least 2 years from now, but likely much more than that. Moreover, D8 is not a new platform. It's like D7 with fixed bugs, improved UI and better support of modules/auto-upgrades/market. You've been deceived (and it wasn't me) ;)
Now working a lot witth some e-shop script that makes me and all customers I have been worked for happy :-)
1. Dolphin 8 is not a new platform. It's a vastly improved Dolphin 7.
2. We plan to support Dolphin 7 anyway and for at least few years.
3. There will be MANY more updates to Dolphin 7.
4. We value D7 and all the mods for it a lot and will make sure to keep them afloat.
Where did you read such news? Not only we don't plan to abandon D7, but we also specifically announced that we will continue supporting and developing it for a long time. Moreover, Dolphin 8, although it is quite "fresh" is still built as a evolution of D7. Basically, we are doing two things at once - fixing bugs and doing small improvements in D7 AND doing a deeper clean out and "renovation" which we call D8. One see more
Andrew Boon•106 days ago•in reply to LightWolf
Dolphin 7 now had six "finishing" updates. It will have some more. So, we've also announced that we're "upping" the Dolphin 7.1 development to Dolphin 8 and scrapping Trident to make sure we are "all in" for it. I've explained that Dolphin 8 is a big attempt to go to the core and see more
I have to admit that over the years, I had dusted down my hibernation chamber quite a few times and even climbed in once or twice, but was never able to power it up.
Yes this script has been a pain in the arse. The one thing that stands out the most are the damn CPU spikes. Don't think that was ever fixed. I upgraded my server see more
that will fill every ones desires for that matter the is no script or site program that fits most needs let alone all.
Actualy you should buy or stay with a cms that fits your site or concept there of the best and build on it.
I have set up many sites for many purposes at one time I had just over 300 on line with on the fly language
translation. I have 28 patents to my name 3 of see more