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What Happened to K2 3.0?
- Jan
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K2 for me was the best Joomla extension. K2 is the basis of Joomla. I'm glad you're back :)
I look forward to the new version. Good luck! :-)
Best regards,
Jan
- Petar Elez
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- Krikor Boghossian
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- Michael Yaeger
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Together with Lefteris Kavadas (backend guru) and Krikor Boghossian (frontend guru), K2 v3 development has re-ignited and is on a steady track for a realistic release date by late April 2016...Within a month's time, we'll make every effort to finalize all remaining issues and release K2 v3 :)
getk2.org/blog/2549-k2-v270-released
- Paulo Ries
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We update some sites K2.7.0 and the interface is amazing. Fantastic new features.
I wonder what is to come in K2v3
- Petar Elez
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Would love to take advantage of S3 integration and upgrade to v3.
- Is this feature of v3 stable at this time?
On more general note...
How far from production use is the current dev version?
Or better yet which features of dev v3 are not finished?
This list would save a ton of hours on verification of things working properly.
Appreciate the help.
- Krikor Boghossian
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With v3 you can reduce the image sizes being used (some template changes might be in order)
You would still need to delete any image sizes not being used.
If disk space is your main concern you need to do the following
a) Backup, I cannot stretch this enough.
b) Empty the contents of the /media/k2/items/src/ folder but keep the index.html file.
This folder stores all the original unresized images which are not used by default in your site (but backup first in case they are needed).
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- Joe Campbell
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You can configure it to process images of specified folder(s).
www.imagerecycle.com/cms/joomla
The extension replaces your images with optimized images automatically (time intervals or on save)
I personally use it to optimize my images before uploading to K2 (tip: save your images at 100% quality and let ImageReady do the optimization, for smallest size/highest quality images)
- Petar Elez
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Krikor wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but you are concerned about the disk size the images occupy?
With v3 you can reduce the image sizes being used (some template changes might be in order)
You would still need to delete any image sizes not being used.
If disk space is your main concern you need to do the following
a) Backup, I cannot stretch this enough.
b) Empty the contents of the /media/k2/items/src/ folder but keep the index.html file.
This folder stores all the original unresized images which are not used by default in your site (but backup first in case they are needed).
Hi Krikor, yes we're concerned about storage. Currently hosted on Amazon EC2 and the instance is "growing" like crazy - mostly due to the cache folder size. We are planning to add features to the site and I'm not sure what will be needed in the future, so I'd like to keep all files on the site as they are normally stored (structure wise) but would like to reduce the size of the EC2 instance.
K2 v3 has Amazon S3 listed as a storage option and that sounds like a perfect solution for the site. I just didn't want to jump into upgrading to v3 blind.
To test all k2 features would be very difficult and even if those we currently use may be working correctly. I'd like to know which features of v3 are stable currently and which ones are being worked on to determine if we can jump to v3 before the stable release is put out.