UNA 13 Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 now available for download with hundreds of fixes and improvements. Please, note that this is NOT A PRODUCTION-READY release and it recommended for testing and pre-production sites only. If you choose to use it, switch to Beta-channel in UNA Studio and both updates will become available automatically.
We decided to release early builds now to keep UNA community informed and to allow time for developers to update/adapt their modules. UNA 13 and UNA 14 updates are planned to become two parts of a year-long UX-overhaul mission. We decided to go through every module, page, setting, language key... and revamp user-experience. The recent switch to TailwindCSS for styling prompted us to review everything and unify the UX of all the UNA's 80+ modules.
More on this in the video below:
What's new in UNA 13 Alpha 1
New modules:
System Enhancements:
- Quill editor was added instead of TinyMCE as default system editor #3252
- Standalone system Embeds provider #2773
- More extended permissions control for Roles in group based modules #3332
- Help links for form fields and blocks #3385
- Page blocks cache #3369
- Admin dashboard improvements #3252
- Reports Dashboard enhancements #3508 #3496
- Audit enhancements #3502
- Admin notes for different content #3283
- Separate membership action to 'delete all content' #3269
- Menus: allow to use inline SVG and Emoji in Icons #3530
- Menus: add possibility to mark a menu item as Primary #3514
- Menus: independent hierarchy(multilevel) #2637
- Emoji are now used in reactions #3535
- Logging for transcoder which should help to identify issues with transcoding #3544
- Transcoding queue now checks if video is really processing, before process could be just ended unexpectedly and stayed in the queue (works in linux only) #3546
- Cron job now record last run time, how long did it take, how much memory to run for each cron job and logger #3268
- New block similar to current Profile Stats block #3467
- New block with site submenu #3524
- New block with followed groups in short format #3468
- New block with smaller cover for profile and group based modules (helpful when cover is disabled) #3510
- New option to disable covers for whole site #3528
- New option to optionally trust unsigned certificates or not verified hosts #3532
- Paginate improvements #3064
- Paginate in 'Viewed by' popup #3042
- Badges improvements #3254
- Comments: HTML5 uploader is now used instead of Simple one #3552
- Location field enhancements #3486
- Search by location enhancements #3284
- Updated Login and Join pages #3555
- New page layouts #3554 #3281
- Remove Account menu item was moved to main submenu instead of More menu #3548
- Composer is now used for plugins installation and update #3488
Modules Enhancements:
- Text based modules: content pre-moderation #3282
- Group based modules: more items for "Snippet Meta Info" menu #3304
- Videos: allow to post video embeds #1858
- Timeline: repost into different context #1931
- Timeline: new option to control videos preload #3505
- Timeline: Album preview now shows all images in bigger format #3553
- Timeline: Improvements for Feeds and Sharing logic (continue) #2524
- Accounts: send custom mail to selected accounts for admins #2933
- Albums: ability to rearrange and move items between albums was added #2754
- Albums: ability to delete image from view media page #3083
- Payments: Stripe V3 now allows one-time payments without pre-created plans in Stripe #3534
- Polls: image marked as "header image" is now displayed in polls browsing #3479
- Analytics: make access to analytics page by membership action #3290
140+ total issues resolved
Release notes with links and assets for direct download can be found on UNA releases page.
OK - DIARY OF A NEW CUSTOMER !!
Today 2nd June. AM
Just signed up for the $50 + 50 plan (Apps & Hosting)
Impressed with the slick stripe payments. Its very good btw!
But apart from a 'Red Dot" in the Licence Field, I'm totally lost as to what to do now, or where to even look / go now !
I've so many questions now. I want to get started, i'm excited for sure, but I'm not been pointed in any specific direction.
First impressions - there are no obvious instructions to follow for a new user! At least nothing apparent to me, at first glance.
Like -
Where - do I go to "see' the back end of my potential new website?
Can - I start to experiment, build an "off-line' version, get my toes wet, see how it look and feels before going live?
What - happens now?
Today 2nd June. PM
Launching the launch window!!!!
OK - Licence Bought - Go to activate / Launch said Licence, and ran into problems with the correct naming of servers, again I feel the fact that I needed to summon Help to even activate the site was not good. Should be a case of; [ imput company name here ] & Click GO!! That said, getting help here, was super quick, through the UNA site. The new message alerts on my phone were also impressive, ditto for the UNA - device APP itself.
Overall
I feel the whole UNA "shop window' is very confusing indeed. I mean - I'm never quite sure whether I'm actually on my OWN SITE, or UNA's !!!! at any one time, it's very confusing, seriously. Suggest colour code, UNA have a different back round colour to own site.
Pricing
Probably be happy paying $100 p/m ok, (if I was actually making progress building a site) I'll talk about this in a while. In my opinion, having your 'business plan" priced at $800 a month (as it stands), when you can not tell me definitively, what exactly i will get for it!!! is plain pointless, to a small business, with a budget in mind!! Mind the Gap!! Big jump from $100 p/m to $800 p/m !!! My site could take anything from a few hours, to months to implement, and there is no apparent tangible way of telling me in advance, what it's going to cost me???, come on! and that's not workable for any business. Consider offering a "white label, ready to go template, out of the box, design and implementation for a set fee, payable per month, all I need to do is change the logo, up-load some pic's turn on/off the modules i want or need, and i'm LIVE!! A "definable feature package' memberships, forum, live chat, blog, photos etc for $xx per month, designed and implemented. That would interest me!
The Software itself
For sure, there is evidence of brilliance everywhere, Seeing how the template it looks and functions on my various devices, it's very impressive, the notifications everything, (on your own site that is! - UNA!) But the Achilles heal of the software is that it is designed by; Expert Tech geeks, for Competent Tech Geeks. If your not a programmer, your lost here. Its not for any "Idea Person" in my view. It's for a Competent Tech Geek, with an idea! In short - as it currently is - the software is not 'user-friendly" enough for the mass market your after. I've stated THIS as the standard you need to aim for ;-
http://www.vistaprint.ie/websites
The CMS is as easy to edit as a word doc, and modules and pages are simple ON/OFF options, money back guarantee, and outstanding tel support.
I feel, UNA would need to offer some form of "support" at the start in order to "be at the races" as a product. Assign each new customer of UNA, to an "angel" initially as part of the deal, supported via a "P.C anywhere" type support / with chat. Get um up and running with a revenue generating prod, and you have a good shot at retention. But after 1- DAY on this, I'm so far a little disappointed, I thought I would be able to do more for myself. I'll try again tomorrow!!
Just wondering, if anyone actually got a site up an running on this platform yet? TEST POST as well!
Hey,
I was never able to use the payments-module by Boonex on both platforms (Dolphin and UNA). I get the following error after a successful payment via PayPal (sandbox): TRANSACTION VERIFICATION FAILED.
In the logfile there are entries like:
05-16 16:18:26: Finalize Checkout Failed
05-16 16:18:26: array (
'r' => 'payment/finalize_checkout/paypal/2',
'payer_email' => '[...]',
'payer_id' => 'FENPWQVPCCSNN',
'payer_status' => 'VERIFIED',
'first_name' => 'test',
'last_name' => 'buyer',
'txn_id' => '6GE18003HN457640W',
'mc_currency' => 'EUR',
'mc_fee' => '0.45',
'mc_gross' => '5.00',
'protection_eligibility' => 'ELIGIBLE',
'payment_fee' => '0.45',
'payment_gross' => '5.00',
'payment_status' => 'Completed',
'payment_type' => 'instant',
'item_name1' => 'Test',
'quantity1' => '1',
'mc_gross_1' => '5.00',
'num_cart_items' => '1',
'txn_type' => 'cart',
'payment_date' => '2017-05-16T16:18:16Z',
'business' => '[...]',
'receiver_id' => 'JY8CUJ6TM2SSE',
'notify_version' => 'UNVERSIONED',
'custom' => 'MnwyNQ%3D%3D',
'verify_sign' => 'AFcWxV21C7fd0v3bYYYRCpSSRl31Au6BB2RbbA7UgkNTVOzxDv8a0ZWj',
)
Same error on different UNA and Dolphin installations. May it be a server thing?
I added a product here on UNA and created a new profile. I purchased my test product and it displayed the following message: PAYMENT IS NOT COMPLETED.
Is there something wrong or is it intended this way?
Currently:
NOT a favorite: filled heart
In favorites: empty heart
Imo it would be better to have an empty heart for "not favorites" and a filled heart for favorites (switch them).
So, if you like something it will be filled. If you don't like it, it'll be empty.
Or is there a reason for the current state?
