We don't want a new template ... We want K2 ... Stop advertising to people who couldn't give a damn about what u r selling ...

nascimento said:
Template for Joomlla_16 with K2

AirStream by Pixels Paradise


K2 for J!1.6 (demo)

www.airstream.joomlatemplates.info/

All we need is just a little patience.. :D ( Read the line like how Axl Rose sings it )

Joomla 1.6 came out in Jan (for 6 months), K2 didn't bother upgrading ...

Joomla 1.7 is here for another 6 months (I don't thin K2 will bother) ...

Joomla 1.8 will be here next year and it might just have most of the K2 functionality ...

 

Paid software rules ... People care enough to look after it when it's paid ... Free software usually costs as much as it delivers ... and yes, sue me for saying this ...

@Pulkit Gera : K2 is FREE and it's available and stable!! You can still use it with Joomla 1.5.23. I don't think anyone would like to sue you but just wondering, if paid software rules - why you're using Joomla ?

Pulkit Gera said:
Joomla 1.6 came out in Jan (for 6 months), K2 didn't bother upgrading ...

Joomla 1.7 is here for another 6 months (I don't thin K2 will bother) ...

Joomla 1.8 will be here next year and it might just have most of the K2 functionality ...

 

Paid software rules ... People care enough to look after it when it's paid ... Free software usually costs as much as it delivers ... and yes, sue me for saying this ...

Good question ... I use vBulletin for my forums ... Unfortunately, the company I work for insists on using Joomla ... I have no option but to comply ... and oh, how I wish they'd use en exceptionally well supported free software called Wordpress instead ...

Wordpress is very different from Joomla: it hasn't all the extensions that joomla has, and hasn't this great variety. Wordpress is a toy, a very complete toy, but ever a toy... for now... IMHO...

Wordpress a toy?

Have you ever used it's CMS capabilities?

Have you ever seen the exact number of plugings it has? (15,405 as I write this) ...

Wordpress updates itself almost every two weeks ... Compare that with Joomla ...

 

Do some research before you make a comment ...

I think it could be similar to a religion: i like Joomla, you like Wordpress. One other person could like Drupal. At this time all i'd like to do with Joomla i could and i can't tell the same thing about Wordpress. But it could be that i don't know WP well...

Sorry, but all of this sounds to me like nonsense. This is not a forum to compare CMS, although it seems clear, at least to me, that components like K2 are being, and will be, sustituted by propers CMS or components like Seblod, at the end: personalized templates inside content that make that content more customizable in few steps. The strange thing is that no K2 devs  are answering to their followers.

 

It is a pity, i have sites built with K2 that connect items with great addons as K2dynamap, Jomsocial connections, etc, etc, etc... and now, after two years of life, i have to find how to "export" their content to another damn format just because i can't assure my clients continuity with K2.

 

I understand that free and open source components like K2 doesn't  have the "obligation" to continue support, but... it is fair to develope something with great expectations, tons of work from other people to make it better and then just silence? We just want to know if this is gonna continue or we need to look for alternatives now to offer our client.

 

At the end, we work for clients who ask for the integrity we are selling.

 

Tell me.

I understand that free and open source components like K2 doesn't  have the "obligation" to continue support, but... it is fair to develope something with great expectations, tons of work from other people to make it better and then just silence? We just want to know if this is gonna continue or we need to look for alternatives now to offer our client.

Fotis Evangelou, is it going to be k2 for joomla 1.7 ??

Answering the comments about CMS... I use BOTH Wordpress and Joomla depending on what the client wants. The debate is as pointless as the Mac or PC one as the answer is the same... They both (can) deliver the same results even if the method appears different.

 

I'd be more interested in hearing from the K2 developer(s) as to whether the is any point in 'us' using/installing this (once?) great extension in future sites...

 

Evolution is always better than REvolution...

any news?

so what is the easiest/fastes/best way to add comments to joomla articles preferably for free.

And how it is possibile to create custom fields?

Doesn't JoomlaWorks realize how this is affecting their image?

I'm skeptical about buying anything from JoomlaWorks, although I quite like their image rotating plugin like Yahoo movies, but what if they show the same level of support as they have shown for K2?

Don't want to end up with a dead product man ...

Personally I have always preferred opensource/community efforts to 'paid' (as one member suggested). Many paid systems also just give up and move on (presumably once they have made enough cash) and also updates and support are often down to a small team of individuals.

The other problem with paid (proprietory) systems is that the owners leverage thier 'control' to charge for ever single part of thier service and it is often hard or impossible to migrate the 'system' because it has been poorly built or they just won't let you because "If you do - we won't support it".

 

The problem here is that maybe the idea of writing parts of K2 from scratch just doesn't appeal when essentially it's a FREE/community product. I thought K2 was great and used it on a few sites but like it seems the rest of us, I'm now feeling abandoned as Joomla has changed. Even if it was released NOW I doubt I would want to install it in case the developers changed thier minds (again?) during ongoing builds.

 

I suppose there is the possibility that the developers don't know how to make it work with 1.6 onwards?

This thread has gone on for 4 pages ... The least that they could do it reply!

@Pulkit: I agree 100% - The 'silence' says a lot...

Pulkit Gera said:
This thread has gone on for 4 pages ... The least that they could do it reply!

Lets not get too hasty to have a go at them, if you follow this link you can download a beta version of k2 for 1.6, version 2.5 so they are a least looking at it, it's just a question of when will it be finished?