♥monte22 Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Hey all. I am just completing a healthy modded MS1 site http://www.gofastperformance.com/catalog/default.php and I am quite happy with it. Now I see that MS2 was just released and I want to know if I am going to really miss out on any great features. The only big improvement MS2 has that I have gathered from these posts is a bit more security for both front and back end. Is this the only major change, or is there more I dont know about. I havent done any snapshot updates, so I don't know of any of the code changes. Basically what I want to know is whether or not I shot myself in the foot by creating a MS1 site, when MS2 was due out in the near future. Anyone with insight, please post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 OSC is a never-ending series of releases and upgrades. And we all like to have the 'very latest' of everything - and feel we are stuck with an old model - but with OSC it's not quite like that. If you upgrade form MS1 to MS2 you will likely find that many of the contributions you added don't work. There are bound to be bugs, especially in the first month as more people start to try it out. And in the end will YOUR CUSTOMERS notice any difference?? - I very much doubt it. You say you are 'quite happy' with what you have. Then enjoy it and save yourself hours of work upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 The list of changes is on the Workboard. As with any release a good portion of it is back end stuff. There may be some contributions that weren't integrated that now are. However, I have to second Paul's recommendation. Unless you are sitting there saying, "I really wish I had X," where X is something that MS2 provides why upgrade? Better would be to wait for the final release of 2.2 or for a time when you are redesigning your store. MS1 is still going to have more working contributions for a while, since many contributors are not going to be in a hurry to update. Some won't update at all. If their contributions are to continue, someone else will have to update them to MS2. For that reason, I would say that we are a month or two away from having a fully modded MS2 store (without a lot of custom coding). Really want to keep involved with ongoing development? Make a new site (e.g. test.gofastperformance.com) based on MS2 and update it from the CVS on a regular basis. That way, you can work with all the latest features. Then, sometime around MS3 (or better, MS4 or the final release), you can look at it and decide if you want to make it the new live store or keep what you have. Your store is cool (a bit slow to load today, at least for me). If there is enough of an untapped market that you can reach, it will sell stuff. At this point, I wouldn't concentrate on mechanics of the store itself. Instead, concentrate on finding customers to visit it (and perhaps make it faster to load, so they stick around). JMO, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥monte22 Posted July 13, 2003 Author Share Posted July 13, 2003 Thanks guys for the replies. I have decided to keep my store the way it is for now. In the future I may decide to create a subsequent store to eventually replace the current one. Sorry about the loading time. This site isn't live yet, and all of the pics have not yet been optimized. I ran a test and it showed the default.php page at like 200k or something, so that definately needs to be cut down. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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