What’s happening with the future development of Visiolist?

[ausmann]

Hey everyone,

I've been a paying customer for over 7 years now, and I feel it's time to ask a few questions directly to the developers.
As someone who believes that a paid service should deliver quality, here are some points I'd like to discuss:

1. What are we really paying for?

• 1.1. Forum and Updates:
  When we pay an annual subscription, isn’t it supposed to give us access to an active support forum, regular updates, and fresh plugins for Visiolist? For example, the last update to Visiolist was released 4 years ago (check this thread: Visiolist 1.9 – June 3, 2021).
• 1.2. Plugins Maintenance:
  Similarly, the plugins have not seen regular updates either – with one of the latest updates back on November 19, 2021 and another dating as far back as March 28, 2014. This makes it hard to keep up with modern standards.

2. Why is the forum so quiet?

• It seems like the forum is pretty inactive. Sure, many users might be comfortable enough with their programming skills to fix issues on their own, but it also feels like the developers have stopped sharing new ideas or engaging with us. A little more conversation and community input could really improve things.

3. When can we expect Visiolist v2?

• The big question on everyone’s mind: Is a new version in the works?
• Especially since we’re already approaching PHP v9 (check out PHP Versions), and Visiolist only runs properly on PHP v7.4 with some tweaks. Not to mention, Bootstrap is on its way to v6 while our current templates are stuck on Bootstrap v3.
• In this age of accessible AI (since November 2022, to be precise), it’s surprising that Visiolist hasn’t yet taken advantage of AI to optimize and speed up its performance.

All in all, these issues give the impression of a project that might be losing steam. I remain positive and confident that the developers can turn this around, and I really hope to see a detailed, thoughtful response addressing these points.

Looking forward to your insights and thanks for your time!

Best regards!

 

[ignite]

Ngl, extremely disappointing after purchasing this and had high hopes.

To see it's not maintained, you have to do hacky things to get it to work above 8.3, plugins/add-ons are not supported and(or) need us to upgrade the php as well in those. You're lucky if you get a response from the dev lol.

Can't even use it tbh, it sits on my spare drive what a horrible investment this turned out to be.