thewebsurfer wrote: if i may: you dont need just a core improvement, your major need for making a competitive component is:
- a front end entirely "rethinked";
This has already been accomplished. The entire frontend has had its HTML rewritten with Bootstrap 3. This allows A LOT more flexibility and functionality. Between the new HTML output and the multiple tab positions the layouts and designs you can easily put together for a unique site (or match existing social sites if you want) can be accomplished with a few clicks. There are event more plans to improve the frontend further, but I think we've made a huge step compared to our previous usages.
thewebsurfer wrote: - more interaction beetween users
Next major release of CB Activity will take care of this with its new posting capabilities. The idea is to provide a stream that users are familiar with on other social sites.
thewebsurfer wrote: - better graphic (icons is just a little thing, and i'm afraid of your frontend improvement is about just those little thing, like grid list and square avatar, i really hope i'm wrong)
We've implemented full usage of Fontawesome for all our icon usage. They are text icons that can be re-styled to fit any design very easily. Even normal font color changes will apply to icons. Check out Fontawesome for an idea of what's possible/available.
thewebsurfer wrote: - avoid every awful js alert() and use a flexible and scalable notification system
I'm pretty sure I've removed all the alerts and replaced them with Joomla message queues giving full flexibility of normal Joomla queue usage (very handy). If I've missed any then please let me know and they will be replaced.
thewebsurfer wrote: - the registration form should be an entity APART: the developers may needs a fields order in registration and a DIFFERENT one in profile page
You want separate field order for registration, profile view, and profile edit? Please clarify further as am absolutely interested in the idea.
thewebsurfer wrote: - an integrated Event system
Events as in calendar events like jEvents and other event based extensions? This is planned as a new plugin after CB 2.0 (I've 10+ projects planned; we aren't stopping with CB 2.0!). If you mean events at various behavior we already do have this in the form of Triggers, which I have extended with I believe 30 new triggers (more to come!).
thewebsurfer wrote: - the possibility of find users with similar interest (in other words: a Tag system)
I'm not sure how to benefit from a tag system for users. You mean to be able to tag someones profile? That maybe possible as a new "Tag" fieldtype plugin as a new project after CB 2.0. It's already pretty easy to find users using search criteria on a userlist.
thewebsurfer wrote: - you need an ajax serious integration, for little operations like change photogallery page or add connection button, and so many others, you NEED ajax.
We're working to implement ajax usage straight to the core. For example CB Core Fields Ajax is planned to extend to all fieldtypes and moved into the core. Various trivial actions should also become more ajax based by CB 2.1. I don't think we'll have the endpoints and usage in for CB 2.0 for some stuff, but we're getting there.
thewebsurfer wrote: - CB activity is kinda useless for a serious usage: if a user upload 3 photos or edit his profile twice in a row, those records should be merged and well formatted..as every other social component does
I agree completely and it's being rewritten completely after CB 2.0 to provide much better usability. This isn't a part of CB core though so it's not something CB 2.0 is held back by. Once it's at the state we want it to be we'll merge it into core as we've done with CB Blogs, CB Articles, CB Forums, and multiple other plugins. Our plan is to provide a much more active release schedule with plugin merges.
As Beat said we'll be addressing all the new goodies going into Beta 3 with a new announcement once released. We've been working pretty hard on some pretty neat things. Please keep the suggestions coming!
krileon
