Let me first of all say I love Oxwall, but the latest update (1.7) has been a hotbed of pain for MANY users.
Thankfully, I have the privilege of a dedicated server, where I have a sub-domain for testing updates before I roll them out. Many users do not have this luxury, due to being on small VPS plans.
A majority of the problems have been patched from what I've observed, however there is still the issue of the Messages plugin that plagues us still, and is causing SO much grief for so many members.
Many of these users do not understand how the plugins work, and are now left with slow or unstable sites, the forum is overfilling with complaints!
Please please please can someone from the development team provide an in depth response on how exactly this mess happened, what's being done about it, and when we can expect an update out to resolve these problems.
Ross has told us that's it's being looked into, but this is not good enough, we need more.
As I said, this is not affecting me, but it pains me to see so many users having issues, and little or no response from the dev team. Comments are even closed on the oxwall blog!
So, I ask, can we have these questions answered:
- How did your testing not uncover the Messages plugin loading issue with large numbers of messages?
- How is this going to be solved?
- When can we realistically expect an update?
With such a large user base it is unacceptable to simply stay quiet and close comments.
In the future can we please have more transparency from the development team?
I look forward to your response.