...and we have a date for you. We can't set a date for final release, or even release candidate, since testing/bugfixing time is difficult to estimate. What we can do, and what we do do, however, is set a date for the feature-final Beta version of Dolphin 7.
20th of June 2009
...is the projected date of Dolphin 7b release. The beta will be feature final, which means no new features, no major tweaks after that - just bug-fixing, performance improvements, testing and polishing. We hope to come up with real-deal final release in about 3-4 weeks after beta, but don't take my word for it.
Updated Roadmap
You can now browse the planned features and can track progress at BoonEx Trac at Dolphin Roadmap. Take a good look at the Dolphin 7 tickets list and let us know if we missed something important. We'll be gathering bug reports after Beta stage. For now - it's all features and tweaks.
Note that we have added Dolphin 6.1.5 and Dolphin 7.1 sections too. 6.1.5 is the much requested update for the current version, which should be released shortly after Hookie. The 7.1 section now serves as a placeholder for features we wanted to include but decided to postpone in order to release Hookie sooner.
We need to finalize the list for Hookie this week. Please, leave your comments with what you think should definitely be in 7.0. We all want it to be released soon, right?
Dolphin 7.1 is also planned to be released in a comparatively short period after 7.0 mostly as a pack of updates for separate modules.
So, we have a date now and the big rush is now officially under way. Buckle-up.
Thanks for this update.
No indications yet about price settings ?
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.
I think the homepage should be more unique to the individual rather than a world wide thing?
had a quick look in the trac and can't see it there, good work boonex on progress....you are all stars :-)
- 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...
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.
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.
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.
we don't need something that we don't want.
am i right MichelSwiss?
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 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 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
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.
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.
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
Just a suggestion !!!!
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?
I wish add moneybookers payments in pays processor
regards
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
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.
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;
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
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..
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
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)
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.
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!
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.
Email sending to event creator when someone subscribes for the event.
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...
Passed events should disappear from upcoming events list automatically (but should still be available to check in the calendar).
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.