The epic forum thread spawned by the CB 1.2 Update article has been a fascinating thing to read.
The thread has been a mix of congratulations to the CB team for its hard work on the upcoming release, along with whining from some users about the long wait until the release. The occasional negative post has been met with irritation from the CB user community as well as the development team. One could argue that this infighting could have been eliminated by not providing the platform for it, as well as not giving a tentative April release date (for Document Subscribers).
But it is hard to argue that the CB Team could have done anything else, the Community Builder extensions for Joomla and Mambo are among the most popular extensions in the world (the CB page on JED has been viewed over half a million times). This level of user-ship is always bound to attract impatience as well as excitement. I encourage you to read the full thread to get the entire picture.
The upside of the epicness of the thread has been that the number of Document Subscribers has seemed to increase dramatically, with the promise of an early RC download being available to subscriber, I include myself in this number
The other advantage has been the increase in communication between the developers and the users. A recent example of this is this quote from Beat:
CB 1.2 is coming with some major new features…
More on those new features after some hours of sleep…
Teaser-Hints:
“No Preference”
“exactly”
“Between”
“Select image”
“Lost username?”
This kind of information is very interesting, but one can’t help but wonder what is gained from such secrecy on such a widely used extension.
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