Posts by ex-jedi

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Gareth S It would be great if the Perch team could provide a lot more communication. And the community deserves this!

You may have plans and your marketing strategy could be underway. I can see that there is much to do.

However, unless that is communicated more frequently and with a lot more detail, I don't see how you will be able to grow the product and/or maintain the small (and getting smaller) community around it. I hope I'm wrong.

I remember a time when Perch had a Newsletter, a podcast, a lot of conversations on Twitter, promo materials, marketing at web conferences and an online day-long conference with tutorials. There's none of that now.

Perhaps your plan is a small community around a "niche" product? Personally, I think Perch has the potential to be a lot more than that. However, if that is your approach, let's hear more about it.

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I Agree 100%!!

The fact that we've held on for so long shows how good we think Perch is. There's really nothing quite like it, so a lot of us have been willing to take a lot of punishment in the hope that Perch will rise again.

There are ones in the community who would be eager to get involved, but I fear that won't be the case for long. The ones that are still putting out stuff on Perch's behalf, including the ones covering the bulk of technical support, are ready to quit. Building a community from scratch again will be much harder than rallying what's left.

Being cagey is multiplying whatever issues there are. Can we have an update today so we're not all stewing over the weekend... please?

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I'm not sure who it was, but at one stage there were people asking for the code to be open sourced.

I think it was the pipe dream of everyone.

There was talk of improving the ecosystem for third-party add-ons. I think Drew mentioned a marketplace type thing? Is that still part of the plan? And are there plans to update the website and marketing? The 'really little CMS' thing still makes me wince. 🤦‍♂️

But as always, what's the current release timeline? Is there a date you're aiming for or are we at let's wait and see? 😓😓😓

Hi Matt A.

Hi Will B. Welcome to the madhouse! 😅

I'm concerned about when we're going to get our hands on the V4 preview and the actual V4 release. What's the current timeline. Are we looking at days weeks or longer? Thanks.

Any news on your meeting with Drew?

I had a similar issue which in my case was due to my web host changing the mail server details.

Have you tried testing your mail configuration? If not, log into Perch admin and visit Settings > Email. Here you can send a test email to check your email is correctly configured.

I'm most interested and concerned about the release date. Particularly as we were expecting to have the a preview version by now. What's the current release schedule?

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Well, that went well. when visiting domain.com/perch I get an HTTP 500 error after uploading the Perch Shop v1.2.7 files

And update on this Glen. Is it still an issue?

Have community mods be discussed? Might help with that sort of thing.

Will we get a bit more info on V4 features and improvements?

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The larger V4 update - Our team have completed work a UI dark mode and an update the UI on mobile. We are still working on the full build for this and I will update you all asap

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Dark mode sounds interesting. Is there though a more exhaustive list of changes & improvements in V4? And any update on the preview version release?

Quote from Gareth S

ex-jedi

From what I am aware of, the main delay has been in the creation and exporting of the final build itself, rather than the development side. If I get any further details I will let everyone know asap.

Thanks for that. It would be good if we had something substantial before the weekend. There's a full scale meltdown in progress in the Perchology Slack and amoing the most long suffering members of the community. So a comprehensive report would perhaps help to arrest that a little bit.

I'm still hopeful, but there are many I think that would ridicule me for that. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Could we have some specifics about what the holdup please? Technical details would be useful.

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It would be nice, even if someone cannot help, just posted to say the reason for the delay. Have you though bringing some of the community in to answer questions might help?

Agreed. As community members are handling most of the support bringing some into the loop wouldn't be a huge leap. It would help build trust in your customer base. Also, you should think of a way to reward those taking the lead with support. They've been propping up Perch for a long time without much recognition.

Good to hear from you and I hope you're coping with whatever issue you're having Gareth S.

Where is everyone? Are you okay Perch team?

It's understandable that there are snags, but it feels like y'all are teasing us at the moment.

Any idea when the preview will be available Gareth S? I'd assumed it would have been released by now.