BoonEx.com and Hookie
Traditionally update of BoonEx.com website for every major Dolphin version release took a couple of extra weeks and delayed the big day. BoonEx Unity upgrades are also often get slowed down due to Dolphin development, so we had to do something about it... and here's the plan:
BoonEx.com will be powered by Dolphin.
I mean it. This seems to be so obvious, yet we never really came to the decision. Honestly, there's no excuse for not doing it before. BoonEx is a community and BoonEx.com should be powered by community software - by Dolphin.
So, with the release of Dolphin 7 you will see BoonEx.com as the first community site powered solely by Hookie, which will do the job for Unity, Trac and even Store.
Consider the benefits:
- no more parallel development: all our time will go into Dolphin improvement and we would have to make it great.
- non-stop live testing by an active community with about 50,000 members.
- real-life working demo
- our full commitment to make Dolphin fast, secure, usable and effective... or we're out of business.
Hookie would need a few extra features to make it up to the task, but they are already being developed for the default package. So, the idea is to run BoonEx on an unmodified Dolphin.
So, expect a few extra modules, such as Store, Files, Wiki, Feedback and some functionality for order tracking.
These additions are believed to SAVE time before release, since we'd be able to use the entire BoonEx team for their development, while BoonEx.com has been managed by a smaller group and would still have to updated before Hookie is out.
The timeline I posted before is likely to be changed, but we'll keep you informed. For now we plan to publish a new Alpha build every 3-4 days and the next one should be out on Friday.
We'll also update Trac this week to display current progress.
Stay tuned.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
But I must say the Dolphin 7 interface is not too easy for new users.. something must be done to simplify the navigation...
I think Terabyte Hosting held this position from the onset. Good Going. Cant wait to see it happen.
So if Boonex.com will be running on Dolphin 7, will its focus lean towards dating? I mean Dolphin 7 seems to cater to online dating sites right out of the box.
Hint: we need more females around here to make this really work.
A little later we'll update 4ppl.com with Dolphin 7 too, to show how it can be used for dating-only sites as well.
IMHO it will be much more difficult to show how Dolphin may be used for a real dating site... (where members will see only profiles that match with their sexual orientation...)
Now I'm waiting for this 4ppl update ;-)
Quite sceptical but still hopeful :-))
O.K. - Sounds Good! - 50,000 voices all evaluating a "Live" copy of the program. It's Gotta Work!!!
But, please my dear young entrepreneurial friend - Divide the 50,000 members into three groups, each criticizing a specific application of your software, I.E.: Social & Dating, Business & Enterprise, and Educational. If you will start now to make these critical distinctions it will pay off enormously. Let's take this Version 7 and together we can develop it to suit the see more
Junker - good post - to your list I would add "adult sites" and "community sites" - by "community" I mean the regional community sites many are building here - I think this technology is destined to replace local newspapers, which are tanking fast. Each of these groups should be Dolphin groups see more
This is one of the best news I've heard in a while.
Focus and commitment. With enough focus you will get through just about anything so this is indeed good news.
As far as non-dating sites, I've produced several non-dating sites and have found it a hassle to track down the dating parts of Dolphin. However, in the finality of evaluating other social net progs, Dolphin see more
I may sound a bit like a broken record but, after viewing the D7 preview, I would really like to know if D7 will eventually have a true multi-file uploader. Not the multi-file upload that is currently installed in the D7 preview. What I'm talking about is an uploader utility like MySpace has....one that will allow you to select a whole batch of photos in a single browsing section all at the same time, then see more
- Full commitment to make Dolphin fast, secure, usable and effective... or we're out of business."
Nice slogan, I look forward to all future progress.
Thanks for the update.
I've bought and installed multiple photo up loader modification from Expertz site. It is just as same as you
description.
D7 is really need to embed a real, real multiple photos up loader at one browsing and one click.
cant wait.
may be in the project, but in doubt leave here my request ... to access a photo of an album, you go to the photo gallery, and at this point, I feel the need for a menu of navigation between photos of the album ...
ps: otherwise the user must return to the album and choose another picture to vizualizar ):!!!
one more detail, I became friends with myself that is correoto?
Thanks to all ...
unobonex, see more
The idea to use your own script for the community ist GREAT. So I hope you take a look on SEO and focuse it more if its important of your own marketing mix. I hope it! i try to use virus marketing to promote the the seo idea for see more
Looking forward to new developments.
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I'm liking the sound of this.....a lot
Some good points it mentioned are too many javascript files and too many css files being referenced, and that the HEAD section is about 150 lines of code which must be interpreted by the browser before the BODY.
Quote;"If boonex.com send me a copy of dolphin 7 to e-mail that would be great and I’d tell my ideas about it to everyone."
Well heck if Boonex would send it to me i would put it up and tell everyone..lmao
I hope this doesn't mean 7 will be even more difficult for dating sites. As it is, the matching system is difficult to grok, and even with the couples profiles, see more
Me too choosed Dolphin (it was v. 5.6) to build a DATING site.
Even if D7 is the best staggering script with so many possibilities, I'm quite unhappy with it to run a Dating site :-((
I know that BoonEx already planed to split Dating and Social networking script for the next release (D8 / ???) and I am still impatient to see that ;-)
im very impress about the new version and layout of the dolphin 7... its all i expect! but i found another dating software who maybe can be the only one real competitor... emeeting script... i suggest boonex team to take a look... the admin and user panel is awsome and very attractive.. all in ajax... maybe boonex should take some good part of this script for the version 8 of dolphin... of course im with boonex from the beggining so i will stay with dolphin for my see more
And Yes, E-meeting is what compitors a serious candidate. I use it for a local social network. They are working on a wall plugin for the user account page...
Now, this is what is meant by "putting your money where your mouth is"
:)
A well thought out and recommendable strategy.
Thanks for all the hard work Boonex team, especially for taking into a/c non dating community sites also into the equation...very much appreciated....looking forward to the release.
:D
Index page looks clearer, fluent, and well organised.
Page transitions feel like silk.
I am hopeful of seeing a better TinyMce thingy which will
help my users (at the click of a button) embed web images, and web videos directly into forum posts etc.
The little things (as previously mentioned) like multiple upload capability, and as with this forum, neat well presented comments boxes, are what keeps people coming back to see more
I never understood why Dolphin was not running in al Boonex sites.
Good Move!!!