As far as New Portal taking so much time here to get a 1.5 version out, I would venture to guess that much time has been spent on the encryption (ion cube) part for the licensing.
ionCube doesn´t have anything to do with this. I´m not sure why are you saying this.
Yes I see why you need it, but at the same time you are one of the most expensive Joomla companies and are failing to release components in a timely manner.
I don´t agree with this. Remember that we offering you very advance products and life times upgrades without extra charges. Also, we offer discounts when you purchase extra licenses or packs.
It's a neat add-on and I enjoyed it while I had it, but it obviously wasn't something that I could grow with because you guys can't keep up with it.
We had to rewrite and test the code of all our extensions in order to release versions compatible with J! 1.5. As you might know our extensions are so advanced that rewriting the code was not a simple task.
Right now, we have no backend showing on NewsPortal, due to these upgrades and nothing seems to work.
ionCube installation will take only two minutes to your hosting provider. However, if you prefer, we can do it for you. Just sumit a support ticket and we will help you with this.
And our hosting company considers IonCube, and I quote, "an abomination". ;-)
Most of the hosting providers have ionCube already installed by default because this is a very used application.
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