JomSocial 1.5, What's New? Where Can I Get It?

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Thanks cyberblogger

Also agree please add voting/rating features within group photos & video. Also please try to incorporate a more custom form of embedding video not incorporating YouTubish and user videos. Maybe .flv embedding features?

I am not dissapointed with the release. It links social networks together which helps me "somewhat". The gift of god in the progamming for me was adding photo/video support to groups. Finally & great job on that one.

JomSocial with alot of work turned out to incorporate beautifully into my template so i will continue using it for another update or so. Dolphin was gay & did not like the other ones i played with before Jomsocial.

Jomsocial needs to break free from the trend & create new and stronger features because in reality the majority of us are trying to venture out "off the beaten path".

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, add voting/rating to photos in groups

After read all the comments above, I was disappointed about the support given by SLASHES AND DOT SDN BHD as they did not committed in giving good and quality service to their customer, I did message them asking about the problem that I had when using their product in LOCALHOST (OFFLINE) and I found problem with it, too bad, they ask me to PURCHASE and be ONE of THEIR customer first before they able to proceed my request.

orait..I'M TOTALLY FINE WITH PURCHASING THEIR LICENSE, but they did not give me any GUARANTEE that after I purchase JOMSOCIAL they will able to solve it, so...WHAT THE HECK? Paying for nothing! My purpose of buying is to USE IT PROPERLY AND HAPPILY so JOMSOCIAL SCRIPT WOULD NOT GIVE ME TROUBLE because I believe, I am paying for SERVICE not for PROBLEM.

Again, thanks for their FOC customer service support, especially to "HER" who make me really disappointed with "HER" answer given. Once I was thinking to make jomsocial popular among people, now, I have no reason to visit here.

Who ever your customer, they are consumer, once you disgrace them, they will not return back. Please understand what are "Before, During and After" sales customer support mean. GO BACK TO BASIC GIRL!

Do not take to heart about my word, TAKE IT TO YOUR BRAIN! THINK and give better services, be PROFESSIONAL, be adult, LISTEN to people voice and PLEASE, do not embarrassing our country product. If you are University Graduate, I think you should able to understand.

Thanks again.
Consumer who concern.

I agree it's time to put the coffin lid down on these jokers, the joke was on us and now we know what useless unimaginative programmers Arul and team are.

I mentione Dolphin previously and since then discovered SocialEngine. Absolutely amazing! It's not Joomla, but who really cares as long as the code works and it is effortless with all of the bells and whistles you need for your community. This past week I have deployed two sites with SocialEngine and it is a breeze. The code is bulletproof and accessible, the css and templating is available and deep. Best of all, they are based out of Pasadena, CA. They are on domestic west coast time, they are always available by phone, email and ticket, quick to respond and they love to help. Check out SocialEngine.net, I will never use JSoc again.

Wow... http://www.anahitapolis.com ...Might have to just wait it out for this one!

This latest release is so buggy. Then a few days later, another build is released. Still buggy.

Here's what is REALLY FUNNY. This is not TRUE 1.5 NATIVE. It doesn't comply with Joomla 1.5 native standards. It still runs in native but doesn't use alot of the core Jclass stuff. Great job pushing your joomla 1.0 code into Joomla 1.5 and then selling it to people for $100+. How about paying attention to your customers instead of the gimmicks.

Looks like some better options are on the horizon with capable and RESPECTED partners signing on. http://www.anahitapolis.com/

JomSocial had a good run and made a couple dollars. Too bad they didn't reinvest that into hiring more staff and some competant support staff that isn't asking the same questions as the customers.

Won't be buying anything from you or renewing ever again.

Bye bye Azrul.

JomSocial team is simply blind or don't care. I work in a software industry,the evolution of this script simply makes me laugh. JomSocial team is trying desperately to implement useless features that nobody cares. Why, when basic features are missing ? Who gives a * about tagging pictures or bookmarking features inside a community ? Bookmark what ? Get serious. People want something professional not kids play.I'm seriously thinking of moving along, the most important feature of a community, groups, is ignored, but you develop all kinds of useless features for other semi useless features like photo and video. There are other components which done this things much better, why bother ? BASICS, that's all it need, improve and add basic stuff, no kids toys. And start listen to your users if you want to grow.

Joomla is free, Yes but for some components including Jomsocial you have to pay.

Hello, if Joomla is free how are you able to charge for a version of it based on a free open source platform. Is Jomsocial a custom theme then. And that is how?

Please tell me that photo tagging will be a checkbox option. This is another feature that has absolutely no use to my site. How many people actually voted for this? There are numerous other features listed on uservoice in regards to the photo gallery which people actually want, please review these.

Guys, as I have read this forum, many of significant customer voices were not reflected for next release yet. My personal view is also very similar to other ones. I would prefer if you would focus on improving current rather than adding frills no one is interested in. My personal experience with localization confirms that there is a still bit of work to do in order to get basics right... e.g. notifications in preferred language...

I mentioned it earlier, check out Dolphin at
http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/features/
An associate just dumped JSoc for Dolphin because of all the great features it has, far more than JSoc!

Wake up and smell the roses Azrul!

If you don't listen to the people that support you then failure is just around the corner. That's the beauty of the social media. Keep your ear to the ground and implement the communities wishes and succeed.

There are a lot of basic things that are in uservoice that aren't implemented. Yet you give me photo tagging - who gives a shit! Give us what we need and the song I hear over and over again is stronger Groups. They currently SUCK. WYSIWYG in posts. These are basic things!

You have an amazing product, I love it and will continue to use it, FOR NOW...

http://www.ecampusnews.com/new...677f2e6c67
http://dormnoise.com/

This DormNoise.com product seems like it might be good to look into for ideas about adding calendaring functionality directly into JomSocial.

What happened to being able to limit photo uploads by the admin? Not all of us want our users turning our sites into imageshack.



Thanks.

Have been testing the system offline and the new features are awesome. Keep up the great work guys

Neo

Thanks E! Your nycruns site looks good, definitely a candidate for the alternative community Dolphin offers.

Regarding the last post by Walkman, have you even bothered to pay attention to this commentary? Your suggestion is ludicrous and definitely goes beyond what JSoc or any other community should offer. Use subdomains or hidden links in Joomla and point them back to the community user if you want to do something like that. We are all trying to get this to be a stronger professional component and your suggestion does not serve that purpose.

I hoped to see a new feature in Jomsocial 1.5 it's the chance to use a nickname url I mean: www.mysite.com/mynickname I hope you include this in the next release. Thanks.

Thanks for pointing that out Alpinevp, I'm gonna take a look at it.

Azrul Team - You have impassioned users here, but we are not being heard. An excellent example of this is where you removed the web site field for a group. People clearly wanted it there. For that matter, the groups section is pitifully limited. I just paid a developer to work out some better solutions within your framework for me.

You have a great product, figure out how to interact with your userbase better --please.

Have to agree with a lot of person above. Listen to youre customers. Its disappointing that i have to use HWD or Simgallery for my photo's and videos, because they have the function that i need for that. And what about the groups?? Everybody is screaming to enhance those. I Like JS, but if new customers read this or other posts, i think they go away.

For those, who is looking for password

1. Click on Download
2. Enter your email and Order Reference number
3. Find there JomSocial 1.5 Beta Access

Cheers!

Might I suggest we all start looking at alternatives that may address our issues with JomSocial. For example, Boonex Dolphin. A client of mine dissatisfied with JomSocial in not addressing their needs for a more professional and robust community brought Dolphin to my attention. Although it must run in a more robust hosting environment than your typical HostMonster/BlueHost/GoDaddy etc., it is an incredibly powerful community component. It cannot run within Joomla, but any developer worth their salt can integrate it into a site seamlessly.

I have 5 JomSocial sites but all of those clients yearn for more than what Azrul and his team seem to want to give us, which makes absolutely no sense as they clearly are top notch developers. Notwithstanding, the only reason I can latch onto as to why JomSocial is not being developed for a more professional use is that, as many users have stated here and in the past, Azrul and his team either does not pay attention and read the suggestions from their clients, customers, users et al; or, they just don't give a rats patootie about us or their product.

As you may know, this has been a week of Muslim holiday and as such Azrul and staff are out of touch. Maybe with combined voices, he and his team may be able to discern the importance of the many comments herein contained, pay attention and start giving a shit.

What is the point of photo tagging if it doesn't appear in any activity stream or link back to the profile of the tagged person?

Still no group integration with Kunena and no group filesharing?! You can share videos and pictures in a group in the newest version, but NO FILES?!

And what about the editors? Do they still remove line breaks on profiles and bulletins? I just couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw that. I mean, come on, we are talking about version 1.2.206 here!

I will have to take a second look at Community Builder which does have these basic features.

Just a few things that have been bothering me recently (and it may seem small, but it's pretty big) is the lack of updates on the main Azrul.com site. Big example being that the JomSocial version on there is still listed as version 1.2.202.

I've been a JomComment/MyBlog customer since the older Mambo/Joomla 1.0 days, but it has always been difficult for me as a customer to feel like my voice has been heard...I still remember the first time I asked about why MyBlog's editor couldn't be changed (I'm sure others have had their own wishlists for MyBlog as well) and now with JomSocial being the primary focus of the company (at least by my guess) there are things that I've now recently voiced as being "much needed" for the organization I work for, and others have voiced their opinion here as well in their comments above.

I even took a look at the UserVoice page for JomSocial again just now and it even looks like quite a few of our wishes are up there:
make the groups more powerful, similar to Meetup.com (420 votes, accepted)
An integrated music player for music oriented communities (178 votes, accepted)
integrated calendar and event participation system (474 votes, not yet accepted)
Mini WYSIWYG Editor (238 votes, not yet accepted)
multiple users/profiles with their own fields (320 votes, not yet accepted)
file sharing within the group (13 votes)
Add Documents App for Students (18 votes)

Then looking at your team page:
http://azrul.com/about-us/team.html
I see 11 people listed
6 of them listed as Software Developers (including Mark and the obvious Azrul)
As far as we (your customers) know you have a total of 4 different products: JomComment, MyBlog, NiceTalk, and JomSocial
Of course that is simplifying things quite a bit (you have multiple modules/plugins for most of your products plus your websites to worry about)...but the things is you have (according to your website) 11 people working for your organization and going back to my initial point...have none of your own employees noticed that the Azrul.com homepage JomSocial version is slightly out of date? It's a small detail, but fairly important (of course, the version on this website is accurate luckily).

So, just to cut this off (as I believe I've probably written way too much already) what I'd like to say is that I think your company is great and that you guys have a great product on your hands, I just wish that communications with your customers were more frequent and more detailed (we hardly know when the heck a new release is coming and when we do there is usually more than a bit of disappoint in the announced features because what featured were being targeted for the next release were never discussed with us ahead of time). If anything I dislike being disappointed and I dislike having to wait an undefined time period for a feature I really want. It's difficult to make the decision to modify your code, because I'm going to then have to remember to copy the change over with the next release, it's also hard to make the decision to create my own plugin if you're going to end up creating it yourself as part of JomSocial...so we need to know what you're working on because it will help us be happier customers (and hopefully it will help you too :-).

Thanks for listening and Happy Eid ul-Fitr to you guys!

This so far has had 35 comments with the majority saying the same thing regarding listening to your customers.

I'm not a customer, but was looking at purchasing, prior to doing so I thought I'd have a look around the site more and the forums to read what others have to say. This is a very disappointing read as I thought that Jomsocial could have worked for us, but it seems that gimmicks are a priority over making the current features more useful and adaptable.

You've ignored your customers, but now this is affecting your acquisition of new customers. I do hope you listen to your paying clients, because if I was one of them, then I'd too be happy, especially as this seems to be a major release from 1.2 to 1.5

First off
@ Omar Ramos, Joomla's 1.6 release if they stick to the ACL plans will do what you're wanting the groups to do independent of tricks like groups.
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1036-joomla-16-access-control-design-concepts.html

Doesn't mean there's no place for them but it means that if Joomla's devs stick to this they won't need to jury rig ACL around it. In this case Arzul and company don't and shouldn't be reinventing the wheel.

Speaking of which, I'll echo that, the improvements to a large degree do that (tagging already exists in SIM Gallery for example). While ignoring the needs of a more professional community.

Also the emphasis on FB/YouTube template design make the native JSoc templates completely unusable for a site like mine. I understand they they're intended as samples but if I showed them to the client before installing JSoc I'd get a horrifed NO!

There needs to be more work on what the professional and "adult oriented" social sites need (which is often the same thing) as opposed to kids. Not that kids sites don't have their place but that there are others out there who make use of JSoc for other things and they need their place too.

JSoc has come a long long way from it's origins to where it is now. What it needs now is plugin capability so that other functionality can be easily added without messing up the look of whatever template we use (please do that with MyBlog too!!!!! ) so that JSoc becomes useful to more than a small segment of the market.

You're so darned close it's frustrating. Just listen!

ttfn

John

I too am disappointed in the lack of new groups features. I am supposing that you just totally ignore your current client base feedback and go for new features to compete with FB or MS. I am a web developer and my clients are older and want more sophisticated features like groups calendars and group message boards. Until these things are added I will not be using Jomsocial on any more sites. It concerns me that the developers here do not listen to their customers as we have been very vocal about adding more core features to the groups. I hope this is not the decline of a promising product.
I will be giving Community Builder a second look.

This is very dissappoining. The team has once again added features which have little or no use to me.

What is the password to the download page?

Thanks

Azrul,
First, I think it is only fair to say you have a good product. We just launched MarketSense (www.marketsense.com)in BETA and the feedback I've gotten is quite similar to the other posts - we need to focus on features for the professional. While I understand some are using JomSocial for MySpace type communities, I think many are using it for "niche" professional communities.

It seems to me you would be well served to really look at these posts and possibly put together a "task force" of customers to help identify the KEY features that would add value to JomSocial. Again, good product, however it could be made so much better.

Another thought would be to become much more proactive in embracing the development community to design their products to transparently work with JomSocial. Doing this would quickly add a truckload of functionality and put you in a position that nobody else could keep up!

Let us know if we can help.

where is the password. already login but never been greeted with the password ---- sad....

I'd like to echo Omar Ramos' suggestions: Group Calendar and Uploads (Files). Also, can we have MYBLOG integration with the groups -- i.e. have News and Discussions use the MYBLOG Editor. That would be awesome. At any rate, Azrul and your team rocks! All your efforts are much appreciated.

Where is the code for the beta page?

Thanks for the update. i think managing members via admin screen needs some work, e.g. deleting members, filters on custom fields, select whether fields are searchable in front end, being able to properly select option fields in Advanced Search, member lists (as in CB), printing member lists in admin.

Amazing news, i just can't wait for the final version.....all i have to say guys keep up the amazing work, stay focused and dedicated to making this component the best ever for Joomla.
My final say : it's what you make of it

People want advanced groups features. Professional communities use social networking in order to communicate with others with similar interests or businesses. Uploading pictures and videos to your group is okay, but it would be nicer to have a more fully function forum for each group. Perhaps that will come with Kunena intgration.

Honestly, the new feature is not as shocking as you describer. Don't get me wrong, I love jomsocs and I use it for more than a year now to support my 10.000 member registered site, but I think I would have to agree with most of people here that you are not listening to your customers' need.

I think you wasted too much time in implementing features that your partners have been doing and come up with less complete features. Besides, it will scare away any developers trying to enrich our beloved jomsco.

I upgraded to 1.2 but not using any of jomsoc's video features because hwdvideoshare has been doing a better job.
And now, one of the interesting feature (phot tagging), is actually has been provided by SimGalley (and also a lot other nice features by SimGallery).

In my opinion, I think your developers' time would be a lot better spent to enhance interactivity of message postings and possibility of creating a jomsoc mobile applications. One of the key success of Facebook is in it's message posting interactivity as well as freely available facebook mobile applications.

Well anyway, we all want to spare time to write critics because we love jomsoc and we want to continue to use jomsoc. And if you love us as your customers, you better start listening to us....

Anyway, well done for the 1.5. BTW, I can not find password code to download 1.5 in your email message. Pls advice. Thanks.

Now you need the videos to bbe able to embed, besides this you are rocking! Good work!

Though I agree with the feedback pertaining to more professionally geared community features...I want to say I am very impressed with your commitment to improving JomSocial. It is an excellent component and I know you guys work hard to give us what we are asking for...so I am sold on JS and look forward to future releases that will improve the professional communities as well.

Add features similar to LINKEDIN.

Nice features but could you please add more powerful ones ?
For e.g. adding an mp3 player [with play list] at user's profile, creating the possibility to set the country's flag and so on...

Anyway Thank you JomSocial Team!!!

I can't find it either...

Nothing is mentioned on how the video upload aspect is going to work. Just as in the current version, you can refer to youtube, vimeo, etc. but unless your server is RMS or equivalent, uploading videos is not going to happen, no matter how much it is touted as some fantastic feature. Most hosting companies will not allow this as it affects proc power on the server. I agree with most of the other posts, efforts should be focusing on core features and far more thought applied towards making this a more professional use component. I too have had several clients disregard JomSocial as lacking in their needs. I can be so much more if the effort was put forth.

OK, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon here about getting some tools that are more geared toward professionals - and not just trying to copy MySpace features.

LinkdIn would be INCREDIBLE - especially if you tie it in like you have Twitter and Facebook - as well - get the ability for MP3's on the profile as well (our community is for radio broadcasters and having AirChecks and Demo's on the profiles are very important - and pretty much the only thing I'm having a problem finding a plugin for this thing for).

Other than that... keep up the development and progress, but YES - listen to your peeps out there! We need a system that is really geared towards the professional community that ties in everythign that I'm reading in the comments above! You'll corner the market quickly if you do!

Thanks Guy!
RH

I have to agree that it seems to me that Azrul and JomSocial team are more trying to create a tool for teenagers than for professionals.

Please, listen to your customers and start implementing features we asked for and not toys for kids.

Think about LinkedIn or Viadeo, not Facebook or MySpace.

We just had a student ask about Photos within Groups today so this is a welcome addition, but after a meeting with another college last week something we noticed a few things that would really make this useful (especially in a college setting which is where we are using JomSocial).

The first being the ability to upload files within the group, another being the ability to have a group calendar, being able to email the group as a whole (not just send out a bulletin), and last the ability to create sub groups related to the primary group.

Here's how each of those could be used here on campus if they were available:
We'd start by creating some scripts to batch process our enrolled students, instructors and classes for the semester and automatically create groups for each class (and add the students as members to the group) automatically to JomSocial.

Instructors could then enter in their files for their class to their group without the need to create a separate site.
Instructors could populate their group calendar with all of the assignment dates for the class.
Instructors could send out an email to all their students quickly.
Instructors could create sub groups related to the class (if needed, but more likely it would provide a good way for us to organize all of the groups created each term, for example Fall 2009 -> Class 1, Fall 2009 -> Class 2, Spring 2009 -> Class 1, Spring 2009 -> Class 2, etc.)
Students would be able to know who is in their class and better facilitate communication.

*sigh*...someday perhaps :-).

Still no upgrade of the groups function in JomSocial? As I've mentioned before, until that's improved, JomSocial just won't cut it for most of my clients - particularly professional ones. If they had real functionality, it could eliminate the need to add an additional clunky discussion forum. I seriously hope this gets addressed. I know several clients who'd be interested if it was... Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to what I hope will become an indispensible Joomla product.

Yes - like some have said: "cool" but I have to agree with Nathan, these new features are not that useful for a professional community. Probably great if you have a community of teenagers etc. It would be nice if some time was spent enhancing the existing elements.

Honestly, this is more than what I was expecting, nice job It would also be nice to enhance some of the basic features in future builds (organize groups and video categories alphabetically) and better plugin and point backend.

I have been looking around everywhere and I could not find the code.

Where is it ???

Can I upgrade my site from 1.2.206 to the new version 1.5?

Thanks

i looked at this license agreement page as well as the download page but i could not find it..

You need to login first. After logging in, the link and password is at the bottom of the license page.

I'm logged in and looking at the download page and am not greeted by a password.

Where is it?

Just a wuery, and probably one for SIMBunch to answer, but I use SIMBunch Gallery, and wondered how the integration of this product with JS 1.5 would work with the photos in Groups? Would they be stored in SIMBunch Gallery or will the original JS gallery pick this up?

One of the features I have been waiting for in JS is to control feature specific parts of the template with the config settings. Eg: Turning on/off Video or Groups would hide those modules on the front-end.

Also, any chance of a new lightweight template?

@Jean-Marie CHAUVEL:
Yes, it is now configurable from back end.


@klausre:
Only in com_community-based sections. Since you have mentioned here, having it in articles seems nice though.

Hi, will this work for articles and blogs too?

This seems very cool ! One question regarding groups. Will new discussion messages be emailed to all group members (that's not the case in current 1.2, only new announcements are emailed to group members)? Thanks for the answer...

I don't see how any of these features will be able to assist with my professional community. This looks like features for a knock off of FB. nnI still thank you for the update, just not what I wanted.nnazrul: do let us know what you want . ps//: FB do not have 2 out of 4 features listed above.