In reply to BoonEx Roadmap Updated

todaler•13th of April 2009

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 see more 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…

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MichelSwiss•13th of April 2009•to todaler

I understand, but... 6.0 and 6.1 was released within the fixed timeframe but with so many bugs,,,
I am as impatient like you but I prefer BoonEx to take the needed time to make each feature as perfect as possible.
And the main part of the delay is due to the fact that BoonEx really is listening to us and trying to satisfy every of us.

If you have some experience, you know that every projects, not only programming, need much more time than expected.

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mickscool•13th of April 2009•to todaler

I would say, I agree with todaler and I am on the exact same boat and share the exact same feelings. I came to the dolphin world with 6.1.4 and spent like $500-600 on mods and about 4-5 months of time last year and was about to launch my site when Dolphin 7 related blogs started showing up with the dates mentioned by 'todaler'. I thought, it might not be worth spending time on installing 6.1.4 and then later upgrading it to 7.0 and it should be better to wait and it's almost 6-7 months now and I see more

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MapleSwingers•13th of April 2009•to todaler

MichelSwiss...I don't think it's fair to use the word 'impatient' when replying to todaler's post when he was just pointing out how frustrating it has been waiting for the product to see the light of day...and all the empty promises he has listed are facts.

Speaking of facts, in June will be 8 months since the promise was made for a new release...that's like a year and a half in 'Internet Time'. Everyone wants this software to be like facebook or like Twitter both of which are just fads...the see more

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