Thank you for your patience over the past several weeks. As you know, we closely follow and appreciate the feedback you share on Creators, and we’d like to make a couple of important announcements related to your posts.
First, regarding the product, the team has been working over the last several months on re-architecting and re-developing a new Activity Feed for Ning 3.0. The new Activity Feed will include the addition of statuses and more embeds based on pasting links into the status field. This isn’t everything that the team is working on but the most significant short term new capability. We are planning to release this feature in July.
We also wanted to address the downtime that some of you experienced on May 26th and 27th. After the scheduled maintenance on Monday to update a group of servers, we discovered that some of the backup servers were malfunctioning. We've corrected this and have changed our operating procedures to prevent this from happening again.
On the communication side, based on several factors including resources and priorities, we have made the decision that we will no longer be involved in providing day-to-day support and feedback through the Creators community. Communication from the Ning team needs to be focused on product capabilities and new releases and other general announcements such as this one. Our team is focusing on expanding some of the planned features that we already have in development. Once we have more information to share with you, we will do it here.
Please continue to use this community as a productive place to have conversations about how to build, grow, and manage Ning Networks. We will continue to provide technical support through tickets and phone. As always, phone support is available to those with networks on Pro, Performance and Ultimate plans. Our technical support team is available Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm PST.
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Anam, it's not paranoia. You must be new to Ning. I've been with Ning for many many years, and the quality and service has declined drastically to the point of not even giving responses to requests for support, or updates on services promised years ago. So, yeah, it's not paranoia. At this point, it's a practical and sensible perspective. Rose-tinted glasses worked for a lot of us for a couple of years, but not anymore. So, worse than the distress of Ning's demise is the encouragement of others to ignore that demise.
It is concerning to us newer members.... I don't like the fact that there last post was in July and nothing since. One SMALL improvement to Activity feed is the ONLY improvement for half of 2014? At this rate we might discover a search for members by location in another 20 years from now. http://social.jw-archive.org/members/
I'm very glad I didn't migrate my network to ning 3.0 and am still on ning 2.0 - which is still really good for my purposes. But having been through a few instances now where platforms have been bought and then either abandoned or broken by the buyer (eg bloglines, delicious bookmarks, google reader), I am feeling a bit concerned about the future of ning, given updates and communications seem to have stalled. I have hunted around for something similar but can't find anything else that does the same job. Does anybody have any suggestions? Features I use most are the forum, content pages, personal pages for members, rss feeds, email notifications of posts and broadcast messages to all members.
I am going to hang in with ning 2.0 until the bitter end but want to be ready if things suddenly go pear shaped. I am hoping against hope that things will come right :-)
I'm really concerned about this too. Communication from Ning seems to have ground to a halt. I'm still on 2.0 as Events are very important for my network. Ning originally said Events was a feature they would be launching for 3.0 as soon as possible. How long has 3.0 been out now? Over a year? I've been wanting to invest in a mobile app for my network, but I'm afraid if I do then I'll suddenly be forced to migrate to 3.0 and redesign the app. I long for the good ol days when Ning had dedicated staff to respond on Creators.
Ning roadmap was updated last time on March 31, 2014. The latest announcement about new features was on July 29, 2014. Now it is 5 weeks until Christmas. Is it possible that nothing more is going to happen this year?
Gyorgy-
Seems likely, doesn't it?
Recently I had some technical problems and my http://www.glovilla.com network could not be reached. Well, NING solved this within 24 hours. While I am disappointed that NING does not continue to develop 3.0. version faster I am quite happy with their service. I understand that they are busy with developing the 3.0 Archiver which has a high priority.
Even though I am still missing a few functions like "Events" on 3.0. the new version is a hundred times better that the 2.0 version and so far the NING team has never let me down.
The Ning Team recommended to embed a third-party source onto your network to enable an Events feature.
-Bands in Town- http://www.bandsintown.com/artist_platform/tour_dates_widget (see http://rjd2.net/ for an example)
-Eventbrite widget- http://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/widgets/
-Google Calendar Widget- https://www.google.com/calendar/render
-Brown Paper Tickets- http://www.brownpapertickets.com/
Which one do you recommend?
Heinrich
Personally I think it's RIDICULOUS that Ning has not developed features such as Search, Moderators, Events, Videos, Chat, Archiver...not to mention the stuff in 3.0 that does not function right even after getting re-hauled....they've been dragging their butts for a year and a half now and charging 3.0 customers full price, as though it's a complete social network platform.
I'm still on 2.0 which at least has the complete set of expected social networking features, and seems to be working ok for me for right now. Personally, I wouldn't pay one lousy dime to try to fill in the basic 3.0 features Ning continues to fail at providing. But hey that's just my own viewpoint.
One lousy dime...lol. You Americans and yer expressions.
Well today I have been having my occasional fit of seething at the fact that Group Comment Walls remain an un-integrated feature of Ning 3. They do not show up in latest Activity Feed, they do not show up in personal activity feed on members page and they do not move the group to the top of the Group Hub (as per choice to have groups move up according to latest activity). It is infuriating to me as no doubt some of you who have heard me rant on this manys a time afore know well!
And the insane thing is...and what i cannot understand...is that before efing update/improvement to Latest Activity Feed a few (what was it?) months ago now, the flipping comment walls were fully integrated and comments on Group Walls showed up on Activity Feed and Moved the group to top of Group Hub. What the hell, I want to know...
Grumble snarl snipe :(
Has ANYONE successfully moved their site to JAMROOM? I have purchased the JAMROOM modules and a server-finally spent a week getting my Ning Archive downloaded here now spending several days uploading it to JAMROOM...while I wait I am trying to find other Ning sites that used the migration tool to go to JAMROOM so I can check out the finished product-Please post a link to your site if you have done this
Thank you
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