The future of Joomlart: Page 3

The future of Joomlart

rj2012

Although I was attracted by several mails with a good discount to prolong our subscription I didn't do this. I am a 'free user' now. Please inform us about the plans and what to do about missing 'targets'. Maybe we can prolong again.

adsoma

rj2012
I think joomlart is dying. I am asking for support since nov 20- 2024 and nothing so far.

I recommend to find another company ASAP. I already bought a subscription with a good company. send me a pm and I will share the name.

rj2012

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bsorli

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francus641

It's been six months since I opened this thread.
We've been told that you want to take action and that words are useless.
And the facts are that no template has come out since July, that the support provided on the forum is often very slow and non-existent.
Even for those who have paid to open tickets.
Many of us are loyal customers who have paid you for years.
What's happening to your company?
Can we have some answers?

Thanks!

thatch10

I think it is very sad that Joomlart has not responded. The template club was a mainstay for me in my Joomla sites; however, there is very little activity now, and members must be very disappointed at the lack of responses to this thread. It certainly doesn't give you a warm feeling as a website developer on Joomla that Joomlart is the template provider of choice, which I feel it was. I keep coming back expecting to see some activity, but yet again no new template no progress. It's a dying template club, from what I can see, and I have been using the site for many years. Will keep checking back but don't hold out much hope.

Thatch

dronevu1

Does anyone know where there office is located ?
I'd like to organise for someone to visit them and get some real answers .......

francus641

dronevu1 The address is on the invoices you received

aaronblrt11

To add to this, Rockettheme officially announced today that they are shutting down after months of speculation...
https://rockettheme.com/blog/news/284-farewell-and-thank-you-reflecting-on-20-years-of-rockettheme

tom_laan84

I just got a notification that my subscription is running out. I won't be renewing. I've been using JoomlArt for 17 years... So sad to see it die like this. Guess we just move on to other things. It's going the same route as rocket theme and i'm not paying for nothing and no answers. It's quite sad to see how JA managed all this. We deserve better than that.

mikeymike

So as a longtime fan and user of Jomsocial I am now rewarded with - a DOUBLING of my subscription fee. If you were on a standard Jomsocial subscription it's even worse, a jump from $99 to $299. Don't waste time telling Jomsocial licence holders they now have access to all Joomlart products, if they wanted that they would have chosen to pay for it. Now we're being forced to pay for products we don't want just to get access to the one we need. Worse still, as Jomsocial is a more niche extension than a template will we be expected to wait in ever lengthening queues for updates and support? And all of this before a commitment to continue development of Jomsocial for Joomla 6 has even been given.

I don't have a problem with paying for an 'Everything Club' if extensions get the same attention as templates, I just doubt that will be the case.

How about some input from Joomlart on what your plans are now? Are you really going to carry on supporting DTH, Shape5 and JoomlaBamboo products into the future? Will you be fulfilling your commitment to provide regular new templates to those customers who've paid for it? Will Jomsocial be updated to Joomla 6 and continue to receive updates and support?

Talk to us.

miltos

mikeymike

I totally agree. I have subscriptions for templates and extensions and suddenly I have to pay twice. I don't need Jomsocial or anything else that I would pay for if I wanted to. But then again, I would pay that amount if I saw that both the templates and the extensions were being upgraded or getting new features. But now? Actually, now I'm thinking of going with another provider, not because I don't like the templates, but things are not clear about where they will go and I can't build on sand.
Miltos

aaronblrt11

It would seem Joomlart is becoming an enterprise site, they are promoting this new GEO and have scrapped all pricing except one. It looks like they are trying to make as much money as possible before likely 'shutting down'. It screams of it in every way. They have moved the support to Telegram, which I know nobody that uses that.
It really feels like they want to pivot away from Joomla and templates/extensions and into a different kind of business but they are still trying to sell the old Joomla stuff which is already starting to be outdated. A cash grab as a said before. I'm a business person myself and everything here over the last year smells really bad.
At least Rockettheme just finally said goodbye and cut their losses. I would NOT renew right now unless new templates or extensions start coming out.
a 3x price increase for some products is NOT inflation either. It's just bad business.

francus641

To sum it up, it's been a year since a new template has been added.
So the subscription is only for receiving support and, hopefully, updates.
And for this, you have to pay not $89 but $299 a year?
Joomlart rethink the pricing structure as it was before, this is really too much.

e-mano-e

The only thing I'm using is the T4 Page Builder for my Joomla website.
Great tool! I love it.
But $299 per year for just this page builder is way too much.
Before the "simplification of the pricing structure" I've paid around $60 per year.
If the new pricing structure did not change I will look for alternatives.

francus641

e-mano-e
Considering that most of us are currently paying just for updates, I think very few will pay $299.
If they don't revert to the old payment plans, I'll have to look for a different option, too.

adsoma

francus641
For me, Joomlart is over.

I am not renewing, is extreme crazy expensive for a product that is not updated and support takes months. So, it is the end of the road for me. Good Luck Joomlart.

Francus, take a look of joomshaper.

francus641

adsoma

Thanks for the advice.
Honestly, I'm thinking about abandoning Joomla. The whole ecosystem is disappointing me. They've been stuck on 3 forever, and now every two years they have to overturn everyone's work.
I still have a few sites with Joomla upgraded to 5 that obviously won't be upgradeable to 6 because they're based on T3... I think I'll switch them to WordPress and that's it.
It won't be painless, but if I have to pay $299 for three T3-based sites that will not be updated, I don't see any other solution.

bsorli

adsoma Yes I agree and Joomshaper and for that matter their Page Builder interface using Helix maybe a great transition from JoomlArt's Pagebuilder that's almost all I use now. Thanks for the suggestion and other recommendations! Sorli...

adsoma

francus641
Before move to WordPress, try Joomshaper. The SP Page Builder is easy to use and very intuitive. The templates are very good and modern.

francus641

adsoma

I used Joomshaper before I discovered Joomlart.
Then I became fond of Joomlart, and everything was fine until a year ago.
Then something happened, but they won't tell us what.
And it's really sad that we longtime customers have to be treated this way.
I'm speechless.

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