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This is something we can't wait for - this is great. We'll be adding this to our site (http://drinkedin.net) right away and then people will be able to search for bars/pubs based on their last check-in (I suppose). How will this all work?

I think we'll need some integration with other components as well - how about JReviews?

Hi,
is there any ETA on the 1.8 release. I know there is a cycle, but in software development it's quite common to have delays.

Or is there a dev. version that can be downloaded via svn or something?

thanks

Hi there,

Ensure that you have VIP status in our forum, then you will be able to view a private Beta Testers forum. Download the latest Beta there.

Will there be coming plugins along using the REST API for gowalla and foursquare? These services are really location based service and would fit into the jomsocial ecosystem. You could display the latest checkins of any user when he authenticated through the community plugin.

Thanks for all the improvements and new features proposed. Please don't let comment writers anticipation read like a negative critique of your product. if they read your blog, they must be a fan. JomSocial is a winner. I too understand and intend to support your development by using Myblog and other Azrul products.

Is there not going to be a 1.7 ? when will 1.8 be coming out ?

Those are just a numbers calvin :)
The release cycle is 4 months though when i subscribed it was 3 :)
When it comes to updates, i would expect a lot of new features in 1.8 because we already had one polishing in 1.5 to 1.6 transition plus few additional bugfix 1.6 releases, so having another would be an insult to subscribers (remember the release cycle)
Furthermore i would love to see better templating system which will allow 3pd providers a greater freedom in creating custom designs

Unfortunatelly, i had to remove MyBlog and JoomComments from mine installation, because, other components works better with Jomsocial, which is sad. I honestly thought these 3 will play better as a team

ok so next will be 1.8.
"Unfortunatelly, i had to remove MyBlog and JoomComments from mine installation, because, other components works better with Jomsocial, which is sad. I honestly thought these 3 will play better as a team " do you mean they are not compatible, I see this uses jom comments so myblog works with jomcomments. I think some people have managed to get it working.

No no no, they are fully compatible with each other but for instance, (jom comment first) you need to hack core files in order to show new comments in activity stream, then you have to style your jom comment template because in 9 out of 10 cases they look like everything but not part of your site, there is no latest comments module that integrates Jomsocial avatar into output....looks like a project that have lot of potential, but its unfinished.
Other component did all of this thing out of the box.

Myblog is another story.
Its integrated quite well, although you can find a mile long activity streams if you enable this integration, but its interface is rather confusing for many users at least in mine case so i had to replace it.

I have a question regarding what you say about MyBlog - how did you replace it? What application did you use?

You know if your going to keep adding in core features from 3rd party developers you should really be either sending them a kick back or working with them, rather than putting them out of business, your already a non GPL compliant company but to take away business from those developing for you is a huge insult.

Why don't you be more specific and show yourself at the same time, your comments may be taken more seriously ?

I would love to see a better "all photos" page. The current one has no separation between group and user galleries. Keep up the good work...

Will Jomsocial have its own event component ? Since I made a small integration with eventlist but don't like this component. Its quite buggy.

There will be a couple of enhancement in all photos page. Direct editing, ordering and photo deletion within that page... among other things. Stay tunes

Azrul can you kidnly add a terms of use for photos also .. so before users start uploading picsture .. they have to agree on specific rules !!

I hope what ever event feature they are adding its compatible with jcal.

Regarding MyBlog and JomComment, in my opinion these should be integrated in JomSocial.

Its great that you are adding more features! But what I have been patiently waiting for the most is integration with JomComment. Its unfortunate that I have to use different commenting systems for JomSocial and my other Third Party components.. it makes my site more confusing to users than it has to be.

And next what should be done is 100% working integration of Joomla + MyBlog + JomSocial.

You have a software, and you do not want to finish this to work 100%. Why?????

Blog these days is a must.
And a blog, which works with Joomla and activity stream of JomSocial and comments is a full winner.

Why not to use it??

In my opinion it is nice, that you add such features, but:

* at first core feature should be improved!

JomSocial as stand alone community offers nothing very special. For 300usd Dolphin have 10x more features.

The only (and very great!) strenght of JomSocial is a fact, that it is integrated with Joomla. And this should be used to maximum!

(Do not forget: every sucessfull community is comments + photos + videos + discussions)




You say: JomSocial is integrated with Joomla. And ask yourself a question - how this integration works in life?

1. Joomla articles + activity stream working 100%?
2. Joomla articles + comments + Activity Stream working 100%?
3. Adding JomSocial photos to articles working 100%?
4. Adding JomSocial videos to articles working 100%?

In my opinion this should be done in first place!
JomSocial strenght is in 100% integration Joomla, not in super features.

Azrul team, use your strenght and improve this integration!

radius search/geo is must ave feature for software these days. i have 5 licenses and can't wait to see the radius search feature implemented

This is a JS-announcement! So back to topic please.
1)Regarding location-awareness: GREAT! That´s what a lot of people discussed in the forums. This is a substantial need, that also some extension developers have an eye on.

2)Regarding further needs for Photos/ Albums:
As you can see in forums, there is a strong need for categories within to sort the albums.

3) A better photo search-function including tags/location/category is needed.

good news that there is gonna be event .. very good news indeed .. but like thet guys mentioned jomcomment and myblog should take proiorty with some focusing in the preformance and improve exisiting features ( ability to block users - privacy should be inhanced - groups definietly be improved .. photo tagging must be completed where tagged photos are delivered to the tagged user with notification .. azrul about jomcomment we pay for it . .don't u think we deserve a faster update before our license gets expired .. there is money involved man .. anyways i still appreciate your team work and ur product .. regards

Expected release date?

Don, have to agree with you on this. I myself had better expectations to and this is why i changed software. In this world its just to slow when you don't update.

Hey guys, I also think that it makes hardly any sense in making Jomsocial a social network monster that competes directly with Facebook. Facebook is the best example of having tons of features but lousy stability. I myself am still waiting for some updates for Myblog, Jomcomment and the long promised Nice Talk. As time goes by there are more and more better components from other companies. So you can now create very cool Blogs with K2 and have comment systems like Disqus that have a lot more features then the still good but old components from Azrul.

I once was hoping that Azrul and his team were creating Jomsocial with the idea of having the best integration with their already existing components. But now I have to upgrade Jomsocial all the time - to which I have made lots of customizations - to get features that are of no use for me as I want to establish some kind of discussion community with heavy use of Myblog and Jomcomment.

Please think about that ...

Don, JomSocial never competes with Facebook. JomSocial are being used in thousands of different sites, each with rather unique needs, and a different ideas of how their community is deployed. To many people, support for community events is rather an expected requirement for a close-knit community sites. In any case, you can turn it off completely if you don't want it.

Yes, updated for myblog and jomcomment is a little slower than i would like, but for JomComment, you're using it right now and I hope you like its direction.

Hey Azrul, great to hear from you. I know that you are working hard and I really like Jomsocial - otherwise I wouldn't use it ;-) But there are so many new features and me and my team worked hard on customizing Jomsocial to our needs and had a pretty load of work to upgrade to 1.6. And now that it is done there is 1.8 close and then there will probably be 2.0 soon and so on ... Yes I know I already use Jomcomment 4.0 here and it looks and works great (although I miss a twitter and facebook integration like Disqus has it) but I want to use it on my site, as people want to reply to comments and there is still no release date. I would love to betatest this component so we can see how it integrates into our site ...

Kind regards,
Don

You said there will not be any new features in the next release. You will be concentrating only on usability. As many users above have posted, they would like to see the devs improve on the exiting feature.

Location is good, I'm sure everybody has no qualms about this new feature. But can we straighten the priority? What about improvements to GROUPS?

Just because I did not write about improvement within Groups, that doesn't mean there is none. I will write about it in separate entry. Improving usability on existing feature is always our top priority.

this is really good news. i am really looking forward to the events and also to this geocoding features in JS1.8

But i do also think that other core areas like the photo gallery and PM system need to be further improved first!

These are still without many settings and features and really not up to scratch with what social networks require.

We are always improving existing feature. You will notice some enhancement to the gallery including upload preview feature in 1.8 . You can also easily select any photo and make it your profile picture. Is there any specific area in photo gallery that you are not happy about ?

Hi azrul,
Thanks for taking the time to respond, I do appreciate it. Yes, i do feel that the photo gallery system in Jomsocial still needs more usability and a few more features. I dont want to compare, but SIMgallery (which basically copied facebook albums) is alot more user friendly. Great to hear about the profile pic selection coming up in 1.8, but what about a gallery of past profile pics, ability to rotate images once uploaded, ability to reorder images once uploaded, better tagging usability (at present it isnt great), core activity stream improvements for gallery tagging eg showing when a user tags another user etc) users in album feature (like facebook), possible album sub-categories?, stats info of photos eg hits, downloads etc.

Also, PM system does need more options and features!! It is quite limited at the moment and is a struggle to manage a large community. Really need ability for users to be able to block certain users from sending messages to them, ability to attach files, also more of the features that UDDEIM currently has.

Hopefully, these ideas can be implemented sometime soon. :)

and i forgot about photo rating and also photo tagging/ photo searching improvements

There are probably thousand of features that can be listed, but in my opinion , there is one feature that can really make a difference:

* photo rating.

Communieties are mostly about photos and videos, and such feature would in my opinion would be great.

Community is as good, as large traffic it generates, and photo rating will be such traffic booster.

Why?

1. People like to rate things - they feel that their voice matters, and that they are important ;). So they enter community and rate. Traffic is generated.

2. People like to see if their photos (art photos, event photos, girlfriend, dog, etc,etc.) are liked by others. So they enter community to check if something changed. Traffic is generated.

3. People like to publish better photos to get better ratings. Quality of community goes up. Traffic is generated.

And last , but definetly not least:

4. People like to look at best things, and worst things. (eg. "Top rated", "Most rated" , etc.). This is great feature, and easy can be two modules made. And agin - lots of traffic is generated.


Now my question: Is it possible to implement rating in next release, or rather not?

I miss personally several things in Photo Gallery:

*Photo Resizer for Originals
*Drag&Drop Thumbnail Ordering
*Integration of Albums in MyBlog
*Connect Albums with Groups
*Albums of mny Friends Link
*Preview Album in Jomsocial Popup

...there are certainly more ideas from other ;-)

To be fair, I think the devs can ask the existing customers to vote on certain features, and they will deliver the Top 5 or Top 10 to users in a release.

The uservoice is outdated and have been sampped.

For example recently, Alejandro asked his users to submit requests for the next release and to vote on them. He would then select and implement the Top-X depending on difficulty.

I hope it will work together with jReviews - THE BEST geocoding listing system for joomla. The possibilities together with jreviews would be amazing. But I have to agree with the others. Myblog needs an update too - more than jomsocial!

I second Thomas

same,same...nice new features i like this new easy Geo API, but i also need urgently a better MyBlog and JomComment integration for Jomsocial 1.6.x...please give us a sign ;-))

Still waiting to any new about MyBlog and JomComment. Any release in about 6 months.

Hmm ... sounds nice but I don't know if Azrul and his team slowly get lost in Jomsocial with adding feature by feature while a lot of people are waiting for needed updates for Myblog and especially Jomcomment. First there are the announcements made and then months go by and nothing is released.

...in your newly created event??? ;-)

Damn, want 1.8 now :). JS keeps bringing good news.
Requestes; availability to choose kilometres (slider?) from current adress, possiblity to choose other adress then "home adress", possilbity to publish childitems/attributes with geolocation in hierarchial structure (categories) - like events, but instead a store with events (the store is geolocalised and every event is connected to diffrent stores).

Keep upp the GJ!

Very nice, it appears that JomSocial will have events application build in.