BoonEx Roadmap Updated

That's still a long time to wait but we're sure it's worth waiting for.

Thanks for this update.

No indications yet about price settings ?

It is good to see the amount of time being allocated to testing and debugging. That is a much better approach and we are sure it will be appreciated by other people here as well.

What about payment settings for membership ? Is SMS option included ?

Plus, we are sorry if this out of the box, but thought you would give it a reading if we post it here.

It is possible to integrate the "experts" accounts on Expertzzz with the ones on Unity. There was a debate going on why the downloads/jobs section here is dormant as compared to the one on Experts. The reason for that is that experts have to start from points "0" and have to start building up their reputation from scratch. Pls give this idea due consideration of integration of experts accounts with unity ones ... developers will then post their products on Unity which will then allow moderation of products and removal of crap/spam experts. We sincerely think you should announce just ONE OFFICIAL support website for Dolphin, be it Unity or be it Experts. Unity, is recommended, as its got moderation and better rules and stuff. But the only thing that stops developers from using it more often is the fact that points earned on experts can not be transferred to Unity .. so the question in their minds is "Why start from 0" ?

Hoping to hear from you on this issue as well.
Thank you for sparing time to read this.

Will be in 7 versions of a city and the country are interconnected among themselves?

Please please, facebook friendship wall for each individual user....

I think the homepage should be more unique to the individual rather than a world wide thing?

**********ability to add strings of words as tags***********
had a quick look in the trac and can't see it there, good work boonex on progress....you are all stars :-)

I don't see any ticket about Photo (Video) Albums... and suppression of Shared Photo (Video).
- IMHO Shared Music still has sense -

What about the removal of the Avatars ???

Dolphin Mobile Version is now planed for D 7.1. This is a quite urgent feature as more and more users are browsing the web with mobile phones...

Befriend needs a more logical solution..
Send : Click Befriend > befriend button deactivates > "invitation sent" status instead of "member already on your friend list" if the other user did not yet accepted/refused > the other user accepts/refuses invitation > befriend button re-activates only if user refused..
Receive: If you visit the profile who sent you a invitation a button with accept invitation and reject should be visible on that profile page..
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Annabel is right.. a SMS system for membership payment is a must.. just because is the easiest way to encourage a normal member to upgrade, I personally never payed for a membership if does not have a sms payment option.. it takes too much energy to go to the bank for such a little amount of money.. plus you want that membership "right then".. after 5 minutes max.
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Speed improvement.. there are too many files to load and too many db queries.. optimize each template image and the header slide show images (this is mostly for the sake of the demo to load faster) which sums more than 420kb of a total of 1.4mb (front page) - so painful for dial-up users (they still exist).. I am thinking to remove it if it slows too much.. I'd rather make a random pic on each load than a slide show with 5 gigantic images.. all loading at the same time..
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I don't know how admin panel looks, but a IP tracking for each user (history of IP's used by that user) is very important to ban the trouble makers..
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Bad word filter on all pages with comments, shoutbox, chat, forum, clubs, profile descriptions, profile names, user names etc. etc.
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website png watermark on photos if they go offline, website logo on externally embedded audio and video files with link to the website when you click on them..
and list of websites linking to that file..
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contact importer redirect after first login and skip button
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custom fields builder for sign-up/profile page, CV's for users on job classifieds
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images, html code and more options for blogs..
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private photos, videos, music with group or selected users access..
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Facebook is a good example of what else Dolphin needs..
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Sorry for the long text, just my ideas - only take what you guys think is important..
Cheers.

# 546 Module Files

Rather than to base this module Files on media sharing, it will be more adequate to base this new feature on Photo Album (with privacy settings)...
Related to the Profile, Files will be very useful, for example, to upload a printable (.doc, .pdf...) resume (curriculum vitae) that cannot be shared.

I don't see anything about the Promo block to be language sensitive...

hum, let's wait,,,,

About Floating menu...

If the user choose Top or Bottom position for this Floating menu, the template has to open a landing area (no hidden site content).
If the user choose Fixed option, this Floating menu will display over the site content.

i suggest to make this dolphin simpler. like facebook.
we don't need something that we don't want.

am i right MichelSwiss?

i see that the ticket of the GAMES section on 7.0b as been closed... but it is cancel or just completed?

Thanks for the update..

Thanks for moving and adding ticket #574 i.e Youtube embeds / Flickr embeds into 7.0b from 7.1, I really really would like to see the feature in 7.0 :)

On November 23, 2008 you said “Oh... and yeah... when...? We're talking a couple of weeks, or so.”

On February 26, 2009 you said “- Private Preview (limited)… - Public Preview - 7-10 days after the Limited Preview…- Alpha - 7-10 days after the Public Preview….- Beta - 5-7 days after Alpha….All in all we're looking at about 5-6 weeks…”

On March 20th you said “And in about 2 weeks I hope we'll get the source code out for download.”

Now on April 13, 2009 you say “20th of June 2009” and also “...is the projected date of Dolphin 7b release…but don't take my word for it.”

I wish you would have said that in November instead. I have put off any and all updates to my site. I have completely, for the lack of using profanity, ‘upset’ everyone that works on our site with me all because I trusted what you said; I guess I took it at face value. I am not by any means asking for a finished product now. I am not even asking for a finished product on June 20th. What I am asking for is that you follow through with at least the source code, that you have, like you said you would. Coding takes time and trial and error. Heck if more people had the code we might be able to help you, although I could understand why you might not want ‘too many hands in the pot’. We should all know that coding takes time and if you don’t you probably shouldn’t be running a site of any kind. Personally that is why I want the code so bad, so that we can start working on our custom features and add ons that we currently have. We have an entire email system that we need to integrate. Much less some of the other small things we have done. I want to have a starting path of getting them done so they work together for when the upgrade DOES happen. As it was, this should have already been done according to your first post. It has been 16 weeks since you have posted that. It has been about 6-8 weeks since the Beta should have been released according to your post on February 26th. And then about 3-4 weeks since your post on March 20th saying “about two weeks” I don’t want to get the upgrade in 2 (or hell if even then) months and THEN have to start working on them so it winds up being 3 – 4 months when I was told it should have been done 3 or 4 months ago. And that is coming from you. You said almost one month ago that in about two weeks we would have some sort of access to the code. Now you’re saying nope… 2 more months… Again I am not asking for a finished product, I am not trying to rush or sound rude in anyway. I just want what I was told, almost promised, several times over it seems. I have been pushing off everything I was doing for my site biased on what YOU said you were going to do. And then you are not doing it.

I love the new software, In fact I have even gloated about it because everyone that works on the site said that I found great community software, and it just got a whole lot better. BUT that being said… It is hard to stay positive when I am watching everything I have done slip away because I’m pushing something off for two weeks, then that turns into 4 months and that turns into possibly 2-4 more months… All of this because of a statement that said 2 weeks, 4 and soon to be 6 months ago.

Sorry if I sound frustrated,
But I am…

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 bear witness to with our own Dolphin 7. The reason for me placing this 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... Video Profiles, Video E-Mail, Video Dating, Video Resume, 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. I'm not even going to mention the website name as this has cause me negative feedback with a similar post on D7 test website. So that brings me to this question, why can't Dolphin have video e-mail? 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? I have written similar post dealing with video e-mail in the past and have had very few responses, and about half of them were negative. But, I feel so strongly about these video features that I will continue to bring them up until I get some feedback especially from you Unoboonex. Is this request of mine feasible with D7 or is it even being considered? Just tell me something. I believe implementing video where ever we can with the Dolphin script is visionary thinking and looking ahead to the future. As we should already know, if a picture says a thousand words then video says it all. Forgive me everyone here for raising this issue again, I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record but I really feel that we need these features for Dolphin 7 to be light-years ahead in the game.

I would like to give a shout out to LightWolf who seems to agree with me here is his response to an earlier post I written about Video email For D 7

"I would really like the video email, that way admin can send video out about new things added and coming to site. So much more personal then newsletter. Very good idea Rasili"

Wow Light Wolf that is an excellent idea about admin sending out video newsletters to their members!!!

Thanks for your comments.

Is there anyone who would like to add input I’m really anxious to get feedback about this issue

I apologize for this long and wordy post

MichelSwiss and I may not agree on everything, but we definitely agree on:

Kill shared photos.

Kill shared Videos.

These two things involve basic core functionality. They are an inevitable change, and should be implemented in 7.0

To upgrade 6.1.4 site to 7.0, just create an upgrage script that organizes all existing shared media into a file structure and organize the media according to owner. Then, when a 6.1.4 site is upgraded to 7.0, members will find all of the videos and photos that they uploaded in a default photo or video album. Those users then can create multiple photo/video albums and move the media from the default album to any album of their choice. This is the only way that makes sense, especially where privacy controls on media are concerned.

The new roadmap puzzles me, because I really don't know how to interprete them.

I asked for ascending/descending sort possibility alphabetically and on age in members search result and I can't find it in the roadmap. This feature was available before v6 but it was deprecated. I really would like to see it back.

I also suggested a possibility to send group email to all participants of an event (f.e. when something changes), but this is not mentioned in the roadmap.

Private photos request was also deprecated in 6.1 and I would like to have this option again in 7.

Timezone was another problem that needed to be reviewed, but it's not mentioned.

So many things that seems to be 'forgotten' and I think it should be mentioned whether they will be looked into or not.

As long as we don't see the admin part, we cannot judge whether everything we need is implemented or not.

Thanks for the update. I'm not requesting anything new there are lots of members on top of that. I would like to reiterate I would like to keep Admin Articles.

MichelSwiss in a double reply to your previous reply...

So why has Twitter become so poular then? Is it based on profile custom? No it's based on status updates, thats the next big thing. Infact we are to late, that is classed as basic now.

Yes i agree with you maximum profile cutom is well worth adding, thats old hatt now. Dolphin needs the next best thing from someone who can come up with new ideas

Can we atleast have an idea about the licensing cost/agreement of Dolphin 7 ?? If it's something that not all members can afford then I think it's better to inform them rite now then making them wait till June ....

Just a suggestion !!!!

thanks for the update.waiting for the official release.

I also think Boonex should already indicate a price setting for licensing cost. I'm sure they already have 'something' in mind, so please don't keep us waiting until launch date and then become disappointed by costs we cannot afford.

I logged in to my account and then asked my kids to point to the link they thought would take them to my videos. One pointed at the link in the top nav and one to the other in the account nav. As a new user of Dolphin, my initial reaction is that there is a lack of navigational clues. There is no clear cut indication of workflow. For a new, non-tech savvy, person this would be very confusing as it stands.

please make every feature of dolphin optional (like activate -deactivate from admin panel).

The Achilles heel for Dolphin 7 is Privacy..
Private folders, everything inside, locked if user wants that, and he can grant access to public only if flagged public.. if the photo/video/audio file is flagged as private then allow access only to a selected group of users or individual users selected one by one.. simple and most of all secure..
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How privacy settings should be:
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Types of groups: Registered users, Friends, Custom Group with users chosen by the member.
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Advanced privacy settings - A MUST!
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- Select who can view your profile - Everybody, Group or Selected Individual Users
- Select who posts comments on your profile page - Everybody, Group/Groups or Selected Individual Users
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BLOG
- Select who can view your blog - Everybody, Group or Selected Individual Users
- Select who posts comments on your blog - Everybody, Group/Groups or Selected Individual Users
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GROUPS
- Select who can view your blog - Everybody, Group/Groups or Selected Individual Users
- Select who posts comments on your Group - Everybody, Group/Groups or Selected Individual Users
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- Select who can view every single (individual) photo album - Everybody, Group/Groups or Selected Individual Users
- Select who can view every single (individual) music gallery - Everybody, Group/Groups or Selected Individual Users
- Select who can view every single (individual) video gallery - Everybody, Group/Groups or Selected Individual Users
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P.S. Now I wish I was a genius to try to convince people more easily about the importance of this thing called p-r-i-v-a-c-y.. I really don't mind if December will be the date of the release, just fix this big error before is not too late.. I will not post anything more about privacy, I already said enough and I'm tired with this..
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I don't want to sound like a jerk, but I must say that I will think twice if I will go with Dolphin considering the unbelievable lack of privacy control.. I really don't want to hear a thousand complaints once the site is up..
Too bad that the boonex team doesn't take this serious.. I mean are we the only ones (me, houston, michel and sammie) who considers that privacy is the most important thing in the whole script? but in dolphin 7 so far is a mess?

thank you for update .. I'm waiting :)

I wish add moneybookers payments in pays processor

regards

I really like dolphin and I wish to continue using it, however if I would also like to know if I can afford it now. I only run a dating site and use very little of the social network features, so if it is possible I would really like a breakdown on licensing costs.

I guess one good feature would be to give much more freedom to the admin for the customization of his community, so that each one of them could have a unique look. Otherwise most Dolphin communities would look pretty much the same.

I know it's always possible to "simply" edit the code, but what I would like to see in Dolphin 7 is to be able to do all this through the admin panel. For example to be able to manage the content boxes on EVERY single page, not only a few of them like with Dolphin 6, (that includes adding custom php boxes).

Dolphin 7 looks great so far on the outside!
(I'm just wondering about the admin panel...)

Keep up the good work! =D

Oh and I also forgot to mention the Facebook Apps compatibility feature that I would really like to see in Dolphin 7!

Basically what I would like to see is to be able to add some Facebook Apps on the main profile page + on a tab named "boxes" or "apps", just like on Facebook.

That way the Dolphin communities would look much more attractive to prospective members because of the ease of profile customization through the millions of Facebook Apps available.

It would also be great if those Facebook Apps could be used on groups, couples, teams, etc.

Hi, that's good news and worth waiting. But do not neglect the security issues, which after all is the most important thing.

I'm delited to have a date for beta compleated. I will be releasing my adfree site end of this month. My question is will Dolphin 7 update over Dolphin 6.14 I hope someone has that awnser please

Great job.
But next time, publishing the version updating news when your job is 95% done. So I don't need to waiting from couple of weeks becoming six months long, long way to go and stopping site building.

Make sure the new version D7 will be:
1.Integrated photo album to just one or two photo album with multiple options, such as public or private. Profile photo, shared photo album and so on confused the user;
2. Having at least basic tools for photo album, such auto play, next, previous and so on;
3. A real one browsing, one click multiple photos uploading;
4. Group video albums with public or private setting;
5. Put group name labels into language file, not into data base for 100% other language translation;
6. Ease to get rid of some of contents from admin panel, such as all relative to sex for non-dating community site;

Let's make sure you guys get the photo album design fixed

Yes....at least there is expected release date...thanks

Let me guess what I think is going to happen later in the summer when the beta is due (or correction, when we finally get a "feature freeze" on the beta). An announcement will be made sometime just before June 20th announcing that the beta will be finished "soon" - but first there is an important environmental initiative we must discuss - save the jellyfish or something - that is much more important.

I hope not but it is easy to become a cynic if you have believed the announced schedules here before- or worse if you have based your business plans on what they say here. Still, cynic or not I want to contribute when I can, so here are a few things that come to mind:

-All dating function removable (i.e. no manditory age, sex, etc.) - no cutsie little heart icons, or code that sends people "kisses" that you don't find until too late :-(

-Support for sites using real names. Some use "first name" and "last name", others use "full name" - why not support both of these? For example, let people put "full name" under the member pictures on the member search results, etc.

-Email alerts in "replies" to forum posts (extremely important for lower volume sites, and a major omission in the current Orca).

-Additional searchable fields in the classified ads- include the "top down" search on these fields. Have some good options for paid classifieds.

-Allow members to join "groups" on registration (by multi-select dropdown)

-Multi-word tags. Also, "integrated tag block" (each tag word leads to a single page with everything that has been tagged with that word- profiles, photos, ads, etc.)

-Membership levels. Put everything you can think of in there as it is one of the strengths of Dolphin- all new features and functions should have corresponding membership level permissions. Consider linking levels of the Orca forums to these permissions. For example, a "basic" member could only view Orca forums that allowed viewing by basic members, etc.

-Like others trying to encourage real photos, I don't like the new "avatars" page. Will there be the options for tiny photos for the primary profile photo? Will people have to enter this twice?

-Still no "my blogs" link! Missing in 6.1 also. Very difficult to get to the homepage of your own blog - so no one does. This blog page should have its own static url. (important!- add to trac)

-Custom alerts. I would like to have the ability to have some kind of custom alerts. Lets say a member has some attributes defined in a profile dropdown - or perhaps the profile tags. I'd like to be able to post information (maybe through the "articles" and when it matches the dropdown or tag is put in a special folder for them member and an email alert is generated to that member.

We can mostly have only "user" oriented suggestions now because none of us has seen the backend or the builders section. but any control over the database and how information is distributed to the members would be very helpful.

That's all I can think of right now.

Rob

that's too long..i'm waitting for D7 from October 2008..
every month have some news..but the news now is the projected date of Dolphin 7b on 20th of June 2009..

maybe after that will say final version will be 20th Sep 2009..

Hello All, Mr.Boon.

We need an easy lang translation system.
Zoom for Photo's-evrybody ask me this.
CALTRADE have reason to ask for social community-business oriented-need more information in profil's.
The security-all aspects "gest book in 6.14".
All, we need to be unique-templates,some script or tools - or 2-3 more, for easy chages home page-no need to be a web-designer.
My opinion: I dont like facebook,sorry.
Dolphin must keep identity-We too.

Thank you for Great job whit D7,Good luck to All fans and friends of Dolphin
P.S. Sorry for my poor lang-I am bulgarian

in Dolphin 7:

I would like to have a choose in admin planel to open the videolinks as PopUp or in a new window...´cause in germany you would have some problems with licences with http://www.gema.de/en/ ....
To open as PopUp is the only way to use videos (like youtube) without paying € 0,1278 per videoclip (per 5min)

Feedback:

Video emails: That would be awesome! When an user records the video email and sends to an email address. The receiver see a special link to click over to website with the video email playing on a web page.

Youtube-like feature: People have the option to record themselves and submit to the video gallery with admin option to limit number of allowed recorded videos. Include option to provide video comments.

Dating/Friends option: Admins set a prestandard option to open site for dating purposes or friends purposes.

Video resizing/quality: easier way to set options for size of videos, quality and bitrate for self-recorded videos, chat window, and presence chat window.

Ability to embed recorded videos on other websites: A form of viral marketing to bring visitors to our site.

Okay i have waited a long time for this release like everyone else, but unoboonex you still have not addressed the issue with members being able to style their own web page. Are we going to be able to do this? Yes-No is easy to answer...please answer this one question. You have brought up all but this issue and it is getting to be upsetting when you can answer all others but this one question i have been asking for a long time now. (many others as well) The profile builder you have on beta site sucks, it won't change my background when i add a background pic. It shows it as there but will not display it on profile.


PLEASE i need this feature for my members. If you are NOT going to have this, please let me know as i have spent too much time trying to get my site up with Dolphin. If i have to wait tell new release and hear you will add this option later, i will have to just give up my website.

I just lost my job and NO income which makes things hard, so i can not purchase any software now. I spent all i had already on mods for this site and other add-ons that no longer will work.

So either tell me good news or tell me bad news, but please geez just tell me!

Please don't forget to add the sender's thumbnail in notifications (email templates) - message sender - friend request sender - etc... !!!

I probably tend to feel the same as many of you. However, i would be happy to wait longer and get something stable. Good things happen to those who wait. At the same time lets try to appreciate the effort.

As regards to the ads i would be happy if we can have two things:-
1. A repost feature. This is to repost ads after the time has expired. ( apparently you can edit but can't repost).

2. An option to charge for the ads which can be switched on and off at the admin panel. This would allow to a free site but charge for the ads. Admin should be able to change and/or adjust pricing.

Not mentioned in the roadmap :

Email sending to event creator when someone subscribes for the event.

I personally would like to know how someone is supposed to manage thousands of forum Members and hundreds of posts per day with no moderators? Self moderation is really a farse. My forum now is big. With no moderators I will not move my site to Boonex from our current forum software. The forum software Orca is lacking lacking lacking just in basic features. If we have to wait this long for this release and not get another feature update for years, this needs looked at. Please do something about the Orca.

I don't find any detail about Cards feature...

Will this new feature allow members to send e-cards to people who are not yet members, to their e-mail address, and cards recipient having to subscribe to see that card ???
Such feature will be very useful :-)

Or will Cards just allow members to send an e-card to another member ?
In this case this will be just a quite useless toy...

Not mentioned in the roadmap :

Passed events should disappear from upcoming events list automatically (but should still be available to check in the calendar).

Not mentioned in the roadmap :

Participants of an event are not shown. Maybe you should consider an event to be private or public. In case of public event, everyone should be able to see who the participants are and see a clickable thumbnail to the profiles of the participants.