Legacy cutoff date?

DotaDota Registered Users Posts: 258 Major grins
edited August 10, 2013 in SmugMug Support
Please forgive me as I've been away from the message board since the announcement of the new smugmug. Of course there are new and improved things but in all honesty I don't want to change anything about my site. So to think smug will support two software baselines forever is a pipe dream. Now if what I'm already asking has been answered please point me to the thread so here are my questions...

- when will smugmug stop supporting legacy sites (please don't tell me this is a company secret like your development release plans are)?

- is there a fullscreen alternate for the "new" smugmug (considering I did pay fastlinemedia for their quality work I would hate to see this go to waste)?

Again not ranting since I have attempted NOTHING with the new smugmug. Reading others responses was enough to pause any upgrade plans.

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  • mbellotmbellot Registered Users Posts: 465 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    Dota wrote: »
    Please forgive me as I've been away from the message board since the announcement of the new smugmug. Of course there are new and improved things but in all honesty I don't want to change anything about my site. So to think smug will support two software baselines forever is a pipe dream. Now if what I'm already asking has been answered please point me to the thread so here are my questions...

    - when will smugmug stop supporting legacy sites (please don't tell me this is a company secret like your development release plans are)?

    Company secret. All they have said so far is "several" months, nothing more specific.
    Dota wrote: »
    - is there a fullscreen alternate for the "new" smugmug (considering I did pay fastlinemedia for their quality work I would hate to see this go to waste)?

    Consider it gone. The "tradeoff" that comes with the new SmugMug is a complete loss of current customizations. Huge loss for some, but SM claims it's a small percentage of the total. Sucks to be us.
    Dota wrote: »
    Again not ranting since I have attempted NOTHING with the new smugmug. Reading others responses was enough to pause any upgrade plans.

    Same here. I am in a holding pattern with my legacy site. Parts of it appear broken, even though I haven't even started the preview stage, because of some of the things that were implemented globally.
  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited August 9, 2013
    mbellot wrote: »
    Company secret. All they have said so far is "several" months, nothing more specific.
    If we used the word several then we misspoke. I've been using the word many.

    It's not a secret. The answer is it doesn't make sense to decide until we see how it's going. If people aren't migrating for want of Wufoo forms, statcounter, customization, or whatever it may be, we want to come to understand those things before deciding on a date.

    I think the situation is very analogous to what Apple, Google, Microsoft and Firefox go through when they come out with new versions of their browsers. They support old versions as long as they can, but if they see increasing security concerns, which they always do in old versions, or incompatibilities with modern websites that they can't fix, which always happens with old versions, they eventually announce that they have to stop supporting them.
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  • BigRedBigRed Registered Users Posts: 288 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    Baldy wrote: »
    If we used the word several then we misspoke. I've been using the word many.

    It's not a secret. The answer is it doesn't make sense to decide until we see how it's going. If people aren't migrating for want of Wufoo forms, statcounter, customization, or whatever it may be, we want to come to understand those things before deciding on a date.

    I think the situation is very analogous to what Apple, Google, Microsoft and Firefox go through when they come out with new versions of their browsers. They support old versions as long as they can, but if they see increasing security concerns, which they always do in old versions, or incompatibilities with modern websites that they can't fix, which always happens with old versions, they eventually announce that they have to stop supporting them.

    That clarification is very reassuring. Please know that the "whatever it may be" deterrents include not only dropped functionality but also bug fixes.
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  • AlamethAlameth Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited August 10, 2013
    Baldy wrote: »
    If we used the word several then we misspoke. I've been using the word many.

    It's not a secret. The answer is it doesn't make sense to decide until we see how it's going. If people aren't migrating for want of Wufoo forms, statcounter, customization, or whatever it may be, we want to come to understand those things before deciding on a date.

    I'd like to throw "time of year" out there for your consideration. I'm responsible for photography and videography for a high school, and I'm a volunteer -- this is something I squeeze in around my day job. The 2013-2014 school year has already begun, and I'm not going to have time to think about migrating my site until late June or early July of 2014. I have to confess that when I saw the "new SmugMug" announcement, my first reaction was despair. I just don't have time to deal with this kind of change once a new year starts.
  • mbonocorembonocore Registered Users Posts: 2,299 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2013
    Alameth wrote: »
    I'd like to throw "time of year" out there for your consideration. I'm responsible for photography and videography for a high school, and I'm a volunteer -- this is something I squeeze in around my day job. The 2013-2014 school year has already begun, and I'm not going to have time to think about migrating my site until late June or early July of 2014. I have to confess that when I saw the "new SmugMug" announcement, my first reaction was despair. I just don't have time to deal with this kind of change once a new year starts.

    As Baldy said, we simply don't know the date yet...but, we will be giving you plenty of notice.
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  • mbonocorembonocore Registered Users Posts: 2,299 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2013
    Baldy wrote: »
    If we used the word several then we misspoke. I've been using the word many.

    It's not a secret. The answer is it doesn't make sense to decide until we see how it's going. If people aren't migrating for want of Wufoo forms, statcounter, customization, or whatever it may be, we want to come to understand those things before deciding on a date.

    I think the situation is very analogous to what Apple, Google, Microsoft and Firefox go through when they come out with new versions of their browsers. They support old versions as long as they can, but if they see increasing security concerns, which they always do in old versions, or incompatibilities with modern websites that they can't fix, which always happens with old versions, they eventually announce that they have to stop supporting them.

    I have never said Several Baldy..I always say Many thumb.gif
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