drarvindc
Hi @drarvindc ,
First of all thank you for replying to us.
I'll give you my point of view on what you wrote but I'm curious to find out what the thoughts of the other participants in the thread are and those who have followed it even without intervening until now.
I'll tell you what I don't find correct with reference to what you wrote.
You say you took a break and slowed down to understand what's going on in the Joomla ecosystem. Well, I don't find this correct commercially speaking. If I or others have subscribed to and renewed a service we would like the standard for which we paid to be maintained. And I'm not talking so much about breaking new templates production as much as assisting on this forum and producing updates. For example, that there should be 15 threads open on Masthead and the extension still hasn't been updated seems paradoxical to me. But we are your loyal customers and, at least I am, willing to move on and look to the future with renewed trust in your team.
Returning to what you wrote, each of us, in signing to your services, made our own assessments. We created sites based on your software and calculated an annual cost of a certain amount. If in the new plans you plan to add new opportunities while leaving the "classic" plans that we have signed up to for years unchanged, I have no hesitations. If, however, it means forcing everyone to have a different annual expense, even those like me who are not interested in new prerogatives to be added, I am obviously less happy.
Another thing I would like to point out is that a website is made to last a certain number of years. The thing we would appreciate most is if there was an effort on your part to also support older templates for the new versions of Joomla. This would be of much more interest than adding AI-related issues for example. If we want to use AI to generate texts and images, there are already the resources to do so. Copying and pasting instead of generating directly from the CMS doesn't change anything for us. While knowing that the template continues to be supported over the years has immense value. Knowing that T3 based templates won't be able to see J6 for example is a very sad thing. And at that point I don't understand why on October 21, 2024, less than a month ago, you advise your audience to create a site based on JA Healthcare which I use and which is based on T3.
https://www.joomlart.com/blog/joomla-templates/10-stunning-joomla-templates
In practice, today you recommend using your own template, like the beatiful JA Healthcare, which will last a maximum until October 2027 to be optimistic (EOS for 5.x). Couldn't you direct your efforts in this direction, for example by planning to make T3-based templates compatible for J6 instead of trying to develop new kind of products? This is what would really make a difference for many of us, not AI or Web3.
This is obviously just my thoughts, but I'm curious to read what other users think.
And in any case, the world of Joomla, thanks to the development of the last two years and the problems that afflict WP these days, is in excellent health in my opinion. You are among the best players in the Joomla world, behave well and capitalize your position for the future, good job everyone!
Best regards,
Francus
