GetSimple Next Version

[shovenose]

Good post Chris, I am totally with you. In fact I was composing a post along the lines of 'where GS needs to be going' myself because I don't know but it worries me that it is lacking a bit of direction atm. Aside from how 3.1.3 might fix bugs or even 3.2 be a bit better if there is no vision of how version 4 is going to blow your socks off and version 5 change the world then in the fast moving internet GS could quickly get overtaken and lost.

So: Chris's Mission Statement needs to be updated and reinterpreted, because most of that vision has already been acheived.
GetSimple needs to be 'Simple' in the sense of 'Simple to set up and use' and not in the sense of basic and lacking in features. In practice that means a new user should be able to access all the features of a modern website with a GS installation straight out of the box, and apply their chosen theme without complication including

• Blog
  
• Slider
  
• gallery
  
• Social buttons
  
• Contact Form
  
• Favicon
  
• Two /three/four/column content
  
• Custom titles
  

And theming needs to be worked on so that sample pages can be included with the theme. ATM the best themes are overloaded with instructions saying 'make three components, name them, install this plugin, alter the config file, upload an image..' and that is clumsy and complicated and should be Simple - it should just work.

Hope this helps.
Love the program and wish I could do more to help than talk about what I think someone else should do - LOL.

Of everything in this thread I think that this post is still the best. not to say that anybody's points are invalid but this post is pretty much spot on.
I think that Version 4 should incorporate many new features. However, we still need to make sure that each feature is implemented as efficiently and intuitively as possible. I'm willing to do what I can to help out.
Let's come up with a list of things and goals for upcoming versions.
3.1.3 (bugfix release)
3.2.0 (user management and blog capabilities)
3.2.1 (bugfix release and tweaked to perfection, final release in version 3)
4.0.0 (Tons of new features and built-in functionality, mobile admin theme, built in updater and plugin installer etc. )

Does this roadmap make sense?