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Update to Product Roadmap and Communication Changes

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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        • What he said.....Steve. 

  • Why would anyone buy a company for millions to shut down? I think they bought Ning not knowing how much work they got to do and maybe the staff they had wasn't as experienced enough to handle the  job,lol or they got something big up their sleeves since most other platforms are alike Ning like to standout from the rest 

    • companies like glam dont only buy software like Ning to run it as it was, they can buy out a company like Ning and its software to use the code and or technology somewhere else. Its been done many times. Buy a product like Ning for the software code, strip it down and use it on another bigger project like glams own answer  to youtube, 

      This is why Glam could have bought out Ning for Millions, its hardly for the Ning community building legacy or they wouldn't be treating it so badly enough to ruin the Ning branding and trust,,

      So common sense tells you they must have had other plans..

      • This makes the absolute most sense to me Steve.  Totally makes sense.  Years ago, I belonged to a dynamic website for dog lovers and out of the blue they told everyone they were shutting their doors in 30 days. (members has a TON of content)   Many people begged to buy their site and that fell on deaf ears.  Four months later, one of the principals mentioned in another forum, it was bought out for the code and therefore all the begging in the world was fruitless as it was already sold.  When I went to the "bought software" site, it absolutely looked like the same format as the dog lover site.  Many unhappy people were left and never got over it.  For me, it just added to the mistrust I generally have for anyone on the web.

        • to be honest its the only thing that makes any sense of this mess,, 

          Even if you bought out a company and wanted to take the software in your own direction but it was still important to you (in this case Ning) you wouldnt then start out to alienate the client base and leave unchecked all the bad things that are now circulating about the Ning brand,, Glam must be full of P.R reps. how hard would it have been to stick one on here to keep its client base feeling secure. All they did was cut everyone off.

          The lack of regard for the Ning Branding and its reputation as been most prominent through all of this, and shows they dont care about it one jot. 

          You have to ask yourself why and the only thing that makes any sense is its not the Ning community building legacy they bought, it was the software code, or bits of it, or the rights to use it somewhere else..

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              • Thanks for finding and posting it for me John:-)  I would have never found it.  My BIGGEST sadness?  Mode may have bought it BUT Ning sold it:-(

                Such is life...

              • John

                That would make sense. I guess all the designers time is allocated to Glam/Mode as a priority, getting their platform sorted, before they double back and decide what to do with Ning networks.  Maybe their Ning plans need to integrate with the Glam/Mode which they can't do until Glam/Mode are sorted - thus we will continue to be in limbo.  Its not that the design teams are not doing anything - they are - just not on 3.0.  In fact could the final 3.0 be even better when eventually they get back to it?? Questions, questions.?

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                  • So, what are we to do? 

                    • Have an alternative site handy for when the other shoe drops, or the bell tolls, or the writing on the wall becomes reality.  

                  • Well i like the optimist views people still show over the future of ning. Unfortunately im from a real world business family, directors and managers and i know the way that glam have treated the branding of Ning, which is very badly, you simply dont do that in the business world, Trust in your brand is everything and if you intend to make something of it, you protect it like a baby.

                    Glam for all intent a purpose have run the Ning branding into the gutter and people have lost all trust in it. and that in itself tells its own story.. Remember Glam are not some amateur business, they know what they do every step of the way

                    I bet not one person on here can honestly say they trust Glam now and dont have the twinge of fear in their hearts when they think about their beloved ning community 

                    Hoping that things turn out OK in the end is not trust, its desperation for the wanting the old secure feeling back.. 

                    Its a bit like a precious relationship going bad how you cling on in hope that you can get the magic back but in your heart you know it will never be the same again because you have lost trust, and as you bend over backwards to cling on, you feel like a dog waiting for a scrap of bone or something and  feeling more powerless and needy with every week that passes. 

                    Nope.. Just me then,,,,,, :)))

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