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Originally Posted by shan
many people are just asking for existing features to work how you imagine they should and that all the simple things are fixed before a final release.
Having a beta forum where we could discuss features and be told yes or no would be useful i think. There are just as many people who see problems and work around them every day who DONT report things via the members area. Ive created lists each time that you never know what has been taken on board and what has not.
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I understand your point, Shan. And I see our mistake with publishing 4.1.0 on the stage of beta testing. We should have published it on the alpha stage to allow you, the forum members, and all the other X-Cart users to make suggestions about the ways in which the software can be improved. That way we could implement many more useful things into X-Cart while the development stage was still under way. Unlike alpha, beta is a release with a feature set that is almost complete, so, when we published 4.1.0 beta, it mainly needed intesive testing, not suggestions of improvements.
After the release of X-Cart 4.1.0 beta, however, X-Cart development team was deluged with thousands of feature requests ranging from minor to serious. We did include some of them in the beta 2 and the release candidates. But, as I have already mentioned in my previous post, development of 4.1.0 cannot continue endlessly, so many of the valuable requests are being left unresolved. This does not mean we are ignoring them - our development plan is built wholely on our clients' requests. We will consider them in the future major releases.
I appreciate your help and all the things you are doing as a moderator, as well as I appreciate the work of Balinor. Your insight has already helped us overcome a lot of issues and I hope you will keep posting your useful suggestions on this forum.