Joocial 9 Beta 1 is here. Post sharing running everywhere!

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Created: 20 March 2018

Today we are incredibly excited to introduce Joocial 9 Alpha 3 release of our future hub for CMSs. This is mainly an internal milestone, but it marks the point where the new software is fully operational. All the moving parts are defined and working as expected.

Joocial 9 aims to provide a better toolkit for post sharing running everywhere: iOS, Android, Desktop, and on the web as a Progressive Web App.

Joocial 9 will offer a consistent user interface to handle social content management on the underlying platform in a portable, cross-platform way. That means the Joocial app will work no matter where it runs.

Features of Joocial 9

Joocial 9 has some handy features:

• A New Usage Scenario for Joomla optimized to be intuitive.
• The same user experience on desktop and the mobile app for Android and iOS.
• A Simple Plugin model (no more optional plugins).
• Translations will be provided in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Brazil, Dutch and Polish. More languages will be added after the initial release.
• Rebuilt on strong quality assurances (automated end to end testing) 

That’s a long way of saying there are cool features in Joocial we think our users will appreciate.

Screenshots

As a glimpse of how it is working today in our testing sites, in the following screenshots, we can show how the new Composer and the Channels are managed in the new user interface:

New Mobile App

New Channel Navigation

New Composer

Migration?

No migration. The new version is going to be fully compatible. It will be installable side-by-side with the current version 8. We expect to support both versions at least for one year.

Deprecations

In the upcoming release, we are going to remove features that were defined ages ago, they have been with us for years, but they are no longer actively used.

• Plugins and Settings will be removed/simplified.
• Paywall Mode
• Community Auto-Posting
• Front-End User Channels
• Jootool, Front-End Management. The whole extension will be available on the front, back and in the mobile app.

We are going to need your feedback!

Today’s alpha release represents more than one year and a half of hard work over thousands of commits, and we’re just getting started. Joocial 9 is not production ready yet, but we hope to be at that point soon. For Joocial 9 to move forward, we are going to need your feedback and testing.

In the next months, we are going to publish a series of Beta versions for testing. To simplify the testing, the new Joocial 9 will be installable side-by-side with the stable version. So, you will be able to test the new shiny feature along the current installation.

To the moon!

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Created: 16 January 2018

We have released XT Adaptive Images 4.0. This new major version of the plugin brings with several big news for responsive images generation:

• Adaptive Images, we have rewritten the code to empower the following techniques and implemented unit testing to confirm that it works reliably in all cases. 
• HTML's new responsive image attributes, the new version can generate an image adapted for the screen and declare all the available image sizes in the new srcset and sizes attributes. For more information about the HTML features,  Responsive Images Done Right: A Guide To picture And srcset
• Lazy Load, we have updated the original stable version of the jQuery plugin and added a new Vanilla Lazy Load (beta) alternative, with support of srcset and sizes attributes.
• Compatibility with Joomla 3.8 or superior. Including compatibility with Joomla! 4.

This new major version also embodies a new direction in our development practices, where we manage the process to include unit testing and best coding practices as part of the general methodology to produce high-quality software for desktop and mobile devices.

To the moon!

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Created: 28 December 2017

Extly in 2017: A fantastic year!

Happy Holidays from everyone here at Extly.  Wishing you a spectacular 2018!

• In this year, we have released several updates to AutoTweetNG and Joocial 8, and at the same time continued the development of the next major version, Joocial 9.

• We have also released XTDir 6.6 for SobiPro 1.4, EasySocial 2.1 and JomSocial 4.5.

• In 2017, we have created a brand new service: JoomGap SlimApps,  the easiest way to create a mobile app based on an existing website. Additionally, we integrated web and push notifications for Joomla and presented SlimApps and Joocial content hub at Joomla World Conference, Rome.

• Finally, we are readying a new AutoTweet and Joocial version (8.18) to say goodbye to this amazing year. At this time, the beta version is already available in the Member Downloads.

Looking forward to an exciting 2018!

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Created: 23 November 2017

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Created: 10 November 2017

The connected life has these wonders. In the past week, we released AutoTweet and Joocial 8.16 to support Joomla's Custom Fields. Today, we are releasing AutoTweet and Joocial 8.17 to support two breaking news from the biggest social media outlets:

• Twitter has expanded the tweet limit of 140 characters to 280 characters. We can already find tweets that are fully embracing the new freedom to write longer texts. We have adjusted the extensions accordingly.
• Facebook is adding new controls to limit the content of posts to the authors. We are actively following the topic and releasing new versions to be updated with the latest news. In the previous change, Facebook mandates to keep the Open Graph Tags syncronized with Posts of content items (Changes to Facebook post publishing rules). Now, with the release of API 2.11, Facebook has added a validation to associate Pages and Domains. So, posts can only be published to Verified Domains. This control does not affect directly to the extensions, but it is a new configuration step that has been added to the authorization workflow: Facebook Link Ownership Guide.

The new AutoTweet and Joocial 8.17 beta version are available in the Download Area, and the stable versions are going to be released in the next week.

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Created: 26 October 2017

Joomla! has recently introduced a powerful new feature, Custom Fields. Now, it is possible to create articles and extended them with a rich set of fields. By default, Joomla! comes with these field types: Calendar, Checkboxes, Color, Editor, Integer, List, List of Images, Media, Radio, Sql, Text, Textarea, Url, User and Usergroup. On top of this, more field types can be installed and they are readily available on Joomla! extension directory.

To support this new ecosystem of functionality, we have augmented the integration of AutoTweet Free, PRO, and Joocial (8.16). The default content plugin, that processes Joomla! Content Articles, is now able to include the original text fields and/or the new custom fields. In the plugin configuration, we have added a new Post Template where a full message can be shaped to reach the site target.

To sum up, now, the basic component of Joomla! raises the bar of the content definition and becomes a complete Content Construction Kit (CCK). This feature is virtually a game changer and our social media management extensions (AutoTweet Free, PRO, and Joocial v8.16) are ready to accept the challenge.

To test the new functionality, version 8.16 is already available in the Beta channel and the stable version is going to be released in the next week.

To the moon!