Looking to possibly replace my old and outdated consulting site with this. I would love a .NET solution and was worried this was abandoned. Site is still very stale (2007 copyright, etc) and we just don't see any new themes anywhere. I did find one site that a design firm did (one of your themes) that looked great but customizing some of the themes looks challenging. Can you provide a date for 2.0? Will probably purchase anyway as the price-point is safe. Please keep this product going. Just need more themes and more information on customization.
Great to hear that!
Super great news - looking forward to see the road-map and some activity regarding themes and plug-ins at the Graffiti Marketplace.
Rumour says that a road-map was presented at the in.Telligent conference. Hope to see it published here soon.
We are going to release Graffiti 1.1 SP1 before Christmas.
I'm glad to hear you will breathe life back into Graffiti again. Grafitti has a great featureset and it's very easy to use.
Looking forward to updates!
What will be the upgrade path for purchasers of GrafittiCMS 1.1? I just bought a license today and will be bummed if a new version comes out in 3-4 months.
Bought a couple of licenses back in February. Working with Grafitti in admin mode was totally useless. Getting help here was totally useless. So dropped the whole thing. If the service pack can at least get my current licenses usable, well, I still won't be happy, but maybe placated. I hope 2.0 will be a very cheap upgrade for those of us who feel we've been on an Alpha, not Beta, program for most of this release cycle.
I hope the upgrade from beta/1.1 to 2.0 is free or VERY cheap. That is the only way, I am going to try this again.
It SUCKS that you have us buy the product and abandon us.
Totally unprofessional on your guys part. I really thought, this was left to die. It takes a decent amount of time ramping up to new CMS systems and pitching them to clients.
Your conduct has been totally unfair!
I want to assure you that we are going to do everything possible to win back your trust.
Shaunna, at this point information is what is needed, not more platitudes. This is not personal, we just need to know what is going on and where this is headed. Some of us bought into the idea this was a cool tool and have used it for customers and now feel a bit abandoned. This site was silent for months, then you post a "were back" that has zero actionable information and now 3 weeks after that post we still have zippo. what's in SP1? What is in 2.0? what is the roadmap? Have you even considered all the feedback on feature requests? Come on, help us out here. We don't HAVE to keep using graffiti and some have already chosen not to while the rest of us still holding on but not really sure why.
Honestly, this news is pretty sad. The fact that Telligent basically ignored Graffiti while they had better things to do promoting other products is a joke.
I sent more than one support request and got ignored. I put the same questions on the forums and got ignored there too.
I did get direct help from one Telligent person only because I could contact them directly and they were kind enough to help.
Even Scott W. ignored stuff on Twitter about Graffiti. I am on a fast pace to get off of Graffiti ASAP on to some better supported.
This post is great for Telligent to try to make good but it falls far short in my opinion. Too little too late as they say.
I was promoting Graffiti but Graffiti loses because of Telligent, too bad it is not a half bad product.
Hey @Rob,
I agree we are past the point of saying what is going to happen.
We are making good progress now and I expect to have the full 2.0 roadmap out shortly (after Thanksgiving).
I am really excited about what we plan to ship in 2.0.
As for ignoring stuff on twitter, that was accidental. I do try to keep up with graffiti/cs/telligent chat on Twitter, but there is only so much I can watch and still focus on shipping software.
Telligent has shipped a lot of software this year and we recently internally re-organized ourselves to allow us to deliver even more. Again, at this point it is just an excuse, but I do expect this to benefit users of all of our products including Graffiti.
Thanks,
Scott
scottw@telligent.com
The way to create a truly powerful (and widely used -- like wordpress etc.) CMS / blogging tool is to make Graffiti CMS as FREE as possible. None of this crippled version stuff..
Either it's pay and you offer rock-solid support for the product OR you make it free + practically open-source and let everyone else support and improve the product... while you guide and monitor the direction of the CMS.
I whine to my friends about how awesome ASP.NET is and then they ask me -- hey, is there anything like Drupal written in c# / ASP.NET? I say.. well.. there's something like Wordpress called Blog Engine Dot Net, which is free to use and pretty damn good considering there's only a few guys actively developing it. And there's DotNetNuke. DNN is quite powerful but also has some issues (and, unlike Drupal, you have to pay to play with just about every cool plugin or module). And there's tons of other pay CMS for ASP.NET but they are often very expensive.