NING 3.0 boasts a plethora of advantages and quality improvements over the previous version of the platform. These include:
- Advanced customization
- You will have more themes and more tools to customize the design of your network.
- A newly integrated Landing Page Builder will help you design a professional landing page that could serve as a homepage for your network.
- Better control over your website and content
- Customize the structure of any page and add the desired features in a couple of clicks.
- Create multiple instances of each feature (blogs, forums, videos, etc.).
- Allow or disallow network members to use specific features based on their member category.
- Get more flexibility when structuring your network and make it easier for your members to find and access the content they need.
- Flexible privacy control
Decide who can contribute content to your network and use its specific feature instances.
- Mobile responsiveness by default
Since most traffic comes from mobile devices nowadays, your website needs to adjust to different screen sizes. Also, mobile responsiveness is one of the major SEO factors that influence your network rankings on search engines.
- SEO features
Due to frequent changes in SEO regulations, NING 2.0 was lacking SEO functionality for a long time. Meanwhile, NING 3.0 offers SEO tools to help you improve the online visibility of your network.
- Advanced eCommerce
With NING 3.0, you can monetize content, accept donations, or set up multi-level membership scenarios in which different member categories have different access rights for adding/viewing content.
- Advanced API
The next-gen API provides users with more flexibility in terms of advanced customization and scalability.
- Polls
Launching polls and surveys allow you to get feedback from your members on different topics.
- Greater development potential
Newer versions of the product will be compatible with NING 3.0 networks only, offering even broader possibilities for customization and scalability.
- Regular updates
While the development of NING 2.0 has been stopped, NING 3.0 gets constant improvements and updates.
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We may consider adding something like this in the future, but now we do not offer any tools for exporting content on 3.0.
Best regards,
The NING Team
If you don't mind sharing with us, what exactly did not suit your needs on 3.0 platform and what aspects of 2.0 are crucial to you?
Best regards,
The NING Team
I planned to move to Ning 3 recently after the speed issues were fixed, but then I found:
1) No moderator roles (which you say is a priority now).
2) No search box to search a forum category or blog separately. Only site search.
I just now realized:
3) Blogs do not have an edit toolbar. Photos are king on my site. With no edit toolbar, blogs are useless. I'll upset members even by offering them. It literally makes Ning 3 unusable.
I really like Ning, and the support people I work with are wonderful. I have been here 10 years, though, and throughout those 10 years Ning has habitually left things critical things undone in current versions to work on an exciting new project. You're doing it right now with that new platform you're developing and so excited about. Make the current platform what it needs to be and then leave. Don't depend on programmers to figure out what's important to your customers Address current customer needs before you start an exciting new project.
I just had a developer do things to my Ning 2 site to make it more usable—including fixing 10-year-old design bugs—and he's about to do more. I had a developer make it mobile responsive in 2014, but it wasn't as polished as it should be. Now it is. But unless things Ning addresses things, I'm going to have to move to an entirely new platform.
And you could fix them so easily.
Keith
3 NING 2.0 Sites