jesuralem

As I said, the price rise is not really the problem here for me. they had been the same for more than 15 years and everybody can understand it.
Now you are making a lot of changes suddenly after 15 years with barely any, you can only expect people to react strongly.
this is all change management and communication, as i said you chose the "rip the band aid" approach, and you may be right a everybody will complain for a few days and i will probably be business as usual in a week. But a more progressive approach would probably have created less tension.

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

You are right, but then you are definitely wrong to do it at the same time of a 50% price increase and without proper warning 🙂
I guess you chose to have kind of a "rip the band aid" approach.

I tend to agree with you, but then again it is a major cultural change regarding the way you provide support, you have to understand that people can't easily project into the new way of doing thing.
Also, if you believe in community support, you should also consider having a community roadmap with a way to vote for features and so...
 

As I said, the price rise is not really the problem here for me. they had been the same for more than 15 years and everybody can understand it.
Now you are making a lot of changes suddenly after 15 years with barely any, you can only expect people to react strongly.
this is all change management and communication, as i said you chose the "rip the band aid" approach, and you may be right a everybody will complain for a few days and i will probably be business as usual in a week. But a more progressive approach would probably have created less tension.

@Matt what would be the harm of letting people choose the renewal period ?
I know i would definitely choose 1 year personnaly but at least you would make a move to help some of us.

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

Three of the most active third party devs have been active on this very discussion. At least two of them clearly stating this would impact their future projects.
Honestly, how many active devs is there ? what would-it cost to give free licenses to developper having more than xx downloads/intalls of their apps/themes/plugins ?

I have to say i did not read this topic at first because i thought the changes were only on the web site.
Now i have 3 comments here :
- Switching to yearly renewals is definitely a very good idea, most clients are here for a while and having to go through the order and payment process every 6 month is a pain.
- To my view IPS was and still is quite affordable given its features, but still the increase is around 50% for most clients and this might be issue for some of us who having small sites just for fun without income. Now you can assume that these clients are not your target.
- Removing ticket support is very hard to understand for thouse of us who are frequently on the community forum : for the 2 years i have been here (i think), i would say 90% of issues i saw reported by clients on the forum have been answering by "open a ticket". And now you say we won't be able to open tickets... you have to undestand this is not a good feeling.
To conclude, you absolutely have to give free licenses to apps and plugins developpers, ther definetely are vital to the ecosystem and if guys such as @Nathan Explosion and @Adriano Faria were to loose interest in IPS this would be huge loss for your products.
 
 

I have to say i did not read this topic at first because i thought the changes were only on the web site.
Now i have 3 comments here :
- Switching to yearly renewals is definitely a very good idea, most clients are here for a while and having to go through the order and payment process every 6 month is a pain.
- To my view IPS was and still is quite affordable given its features, but still the increase is around 50% for most clients and this might be issue for some of us who having small sites just for fun without income. Now you can assume that these clients are not your target.
- Removing ticket support is very hard to understand for thouse of us who are frequently on the community forum : for the 2 years i have been here (i think), i would say 90% of issues i saw reported by clients on the forum have been answering by "open a ticket". And now you say we won't be able to open tickets... you have to undestand this is not a good feeling.
To conclude, you absolutely have to give free licenses to apps and plugins developpers, ther definetely are vital to the ecosystem and if guys such as @Nathan Explosion and @Adriano Faria were to loose interest in IPS this would be huge loss for your products.
 
 

my issue is that most of my records wouldn't necessarily have a real adress. For instance dive spots have a tendancy to be in the middle of the sea 🙂

Hi there, is there a live instance or a demo of this somwhere.
i may have several use cases for this but i am not sure i can achieve what i want to do. My idea would be to display pages DB records on a map with the users able to browse the map and access records.
it would eb great if DB catgeories could have their own map with only the entries from the category, and even a small map block on each entry page...
 

Hey that's me!
It's been a while since we had a competition though. I am still a bit frustrated that few missing features aren't added by Andy...
Most of the links shared here are dead so it seems there are not a lot of us still using this app, it's a shame as it could really be amazing...

I did the same migration 2 years ago, i have to say i don't regret it at all.
I had a few minor issues with the converter but the support team solved them quickly an ddon't even remember most of them.

I did the same migration 2 years ago, i have to say i don't regret it at all.
I had a few minor issues with the converter but the support team solved them quickly an ddon't even remember most of them.

Yes, suprisingly for a minor upgrade...
The upgrader says my custom.css is incompatible but it kind of hard to understand why...
It would be nice for the custom.css if the upgrader could tell which part is incompatible...

Thanks, that is what i did and it seems ok.

I noticed that also, i believe the best option would be to use icons instead of text buttons.