Hello
I'm not seeing a whole lot of activity. The site seems like it is being abandoned by the creators, nobody is making new plugins, nobody is using this sub.
What's the story? I've created a couple sites using Oxwall over the past month, and they are doing very well. There is still so much potential with Oxwall. Is anybody still interested in supporting this awesome project?
Thank you !
LeaderWe are blocked.
The old developers have left and development on GitHub is abandoned.
The latest previews (still downloadable) were not edited in the form of a public UpDate.
New developers who are interested can only make plugins.
There are new plugins, in this I do not agree with your appreciation. Also, they are of good quality.
Low quality old plugins have been removed from the store thanks to the new store moderator. Perhaps he is too severe and strict in his decisions, but it is better this way.
Many purchases of plugins and themes have been lost because the authors have removed the products from the store.
In recent years there have been several attempts to make parallel developments by updating the core but all have failed.
And in all this time, the owner of OxWall doesn't bother writing around here, I guess he doesn't read us.
The OxWall.com cover has been edited and the script is not free, now it costs 999 USD.
This contradicts the terms of the license but does not seem to matter to anyone.
The script download links and the link to the demo website have disappeared, which are still there but are no longer public.
Our future is uncertain, we are like a ship without a captain, with no one at the helm, heading for the storm.
The storm is that PHP ver 5.6 is gradually disappearing and our kernel is NOT compatible with PHP 7, although the plugins are.
LeaderWe have not yet removed all the bad plugins, there are many, it will take time... But yes alot of bad plugins have been removed.
Oxwall is not dead, not yet... there is still much fight in it...
more to follow!
Leader
LeaderI love Oxwall. The problem was that too many people were abusing the goodwill of the people who purchased their plugins by offering little or no support. I myself was caught a few times before the penny dropped. This new purge is exactly what was needed to clear out the deadwood and restore confidence. Yes, it’s going to take time to rebuild the platform and regain the trust but it’s absolutely necessary to move forward. I myself would welcome any contact with a reliable developer as I have some ideas so please contact me if this interests you. Oxwall is easy to use and very flexible so instead of moaning about change why not try and embrace it and make the best of things going forward.
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My grandfather used to say all the time when life gets hard or when things dont go our way in life, "if you are not part of the solution, then you must be part of the problem.
Wise words from a wonderful gifted generation.
Leadersfcastelliba, a world without policies and rules is chaos... We established these rules to allow more organization and standards. I do apologize if the policies and rules to not serve you, unfortunately we cant please everyone no matter what we do. :)
Maybe you can share your concern about the policies and rules, we appreciate feedback.
https://developers.oxwall.com/index for the main page...Where I am going with this is they used this site for development and use us to test the product out so they could refine it.
Now take a look at this site and you will see that oxwall is very much alive but at a price.
Leader
Thank you!
I guess I should start by apologising if my last postt was, in any way, a "nail in a coffin"; looking back at it, I was quite harsh, however, I wrote it from a place of love for the community and the project. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but progress seemed to halt not long after I published it. In summary, we migrated away from Oxwall in 2016 as it was unable to meet our requirements.
As others have pointed out, it appears that development of Oxwall has broadly been abandoned and many of the bugs I originally pointed out have not been addressed. It also appears that Oxwall has continued down the road away from being community-centric and toward a commercial focus. It is sad that, as @Ruben points out, not much has changed.
In that post, we also discussed the possibility of forking Oxwall to build something based on it but better. Four years later, however, PHP is more despised than ever before, so developing skills in it is arguably a waste of time. Furthermore, we also discussed how there were significant, fundamental flaws in the architecture of Oxwall that would basically require a complete rewrite. I would, therefore, like to propose an alternative.
I am part of a community organisation called Geek.Zone.
- we help geeks meet geeks ("geek" is a compliment!)
- as a registered UK charity, we cannot be commercial. Ever.
- everything we do is GPLv3. Forever.
We are building a platform that will allow your members to do anything they need as a member, including the social and wiki stuff, for example. This platform is in its infancy at the moment, but we are using modern tools and techniques, such as Python Django, to build something that will be useful to many membership organisations like Geek.Zone. This means that skills you develop will be transferable, so you can put them on your CV/résumé. Take a look on our GitHub for more info.
I would like to invite everyone who is interested in being part of our community and helping to build this great platform to let me know. We need everyone of any experience level; for example, artists, front end people, back end people, marketers, people who are eager to learn - everyone! Membership costs just GBP£1 + donation per year, as we try and keep everything accessible.
It's not all about this platform at Geek.Zone, our primary focus is our community. We would normally hold regular in-person social events, however, since early 2020 we have, for obvious reasons, been holding all these events on our Discord. A particularly great event for first timers is our "Pint Night", a games night which we hold every Friday from 7pm (UK time). Everyone is welcome, so do come along, join in the fun and see what Geek.Zone is all about!
@dave - you have been a tremendous help to not only me but also everyone here. I would love to see you at Geek.Zone. If nothing else, it would be great to actually speak to you after all these years!
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LeaderHow disgusting are these people who spam.
Not a single message of encouragement, not a single positive message, not a single message to collaborate on anything.
Only ex-users were missing coming here to take members to other platforms.
Last week one with WordPerfect, and now another.
I would like to be the moderator so that I can delete these messages sooner.
Leader
This forum is a community made up of OxWall users and developers.It is not a platform to advertise other scripts.
It would be the same case as if you go to a community of Ford car users and you say that as Ford is crap, it is better that you throw everything away and buy a Volkswagen
