Well, I would have given it a thumbs down, dislike, but I don't see the dislike button. 20 people may like it but 20000 may dislike it.
There is Prashanks module so I guess that can be used for a true add row feature and I already allow my users to do a profile cover using the existing block. This new 7.2 release is probably going to be a nightmare for existing 7.1.x users that have sites that uses the avatar module and has other things that Boonex is going to screw up.
By the way, photos see more are still rectangle so what is this circles for photos? The last time I looked, my camera takes rectangle photos, not circular ones.
7.2 may see me ending my support for Dolphin; meaning I want be coming into the forums and giving my valuable time to Boonex; not when Boonex is doing such things to Dolphin that means I stop at 7.1.6.
7.2 update is not going to be disruptive at all. Rows is builders are pretty harmless, since all the do is adding a pre-configured site-wide column to the builder, which you can use to add blocks to. Keep it empty and it's work same as 7.1.
Rounded profile pics are released through CSS. Just change the corner radius and they're back to square. We're using rounded profile thumbnails because this is currently the most popular way of displaying "people" in social networks, contacts lists see more software, chats, etc. It serves as a quick indicator of this being a "person". They are becoming quite conventional, so we believe that Dolphin should adopt this trend. Again, it is VERY easy to change this back to square, rounded square, or whatever. It's just CSS. Photos are still kept as square/rectangular originals.
Avatars - we are yet to get to that point, but generally the plan is to keep Avatars module functionality, but switch to Photos as a default way of serving avatars. Just making it more intuitive for users - too often people get confused on why Avatars aren't served from Profile Photos and why they have a different interface. Once we update uploaded and add cropping tool to all pictures, Avatars would be easy to create from them.
So, all in all, even though on surface 7.2 will seem very different, you will see that under the hood it's nearly the same as 7.1. We don't expect any serious compatibility issues with most Market extensions/modules/mods/templates to occur either.
Cheer up! It an evolutionary update. We all could use a little bit of a fresh look and extra interest from newcomers.
I wasn't sure about this (circle profile pics and profile cover) when I viewed sites that have upgraded, but it's growing on me and we can always turn the features off, as you have pointed out.
Avatars vs Photos has always confused me, so look forward to that just being photos. Cropping tool will be awesome.
Soon time to freshen it up our end..... and see what breaks.
Just did a 7.1.6 upgrade to 7.2.0 and it is a nightmare with all the crap changes to 7.2. Which is why I haven't try this for years. Everything is breaking just like I knew it would. Having to crawl through the sql.sql and removing things that never should have been added.
There is Prashanks module so I guess that can be used for a true add row feature and I already allow my users to do a profile cover using the existing block. This new 7.2 release is probably going to be a nightmare for existing 7.1.x users that have sites that uses the avatar module and has other things that Boonex is going to screw up.
By the way, photos see more
Rounded profile pics are released through CSS. Just change the corner radius and they're back to square. We're using rounded profile thumbnails because this is currently the most popular way of displaying "people" in social networks, contacts lists see more
I wasn't sure about this (circle profile pics and profile cover) when I viewed sites that have upgraded, but it's growing on me and we can always turn the features off, as you have pointed out.
Avatars vs Photos has always confused me, so look forward to that just being photos. Cropping tool will be awesome.
Soon time to freshen it up our end..... and see what breaks.