[ Poll ] Version 5 VS Version 6: who's the winner?

Tortora

Hi everyone,

just a curiosity 'cause I feel strongly that version 5 was far better then version 6.

• Better usability: more intuitive; you open the editor, write email, clic send, and you're done.
• Better automation / follow up: you create a campaign, you create e-mail as follow-up of that campaign, you write text, you set time (after x minutes / days / weeks) and you're done.
• Better front end management for user: you create a menu item... And you're done.

For whom have tried the two version, I'm the only one to think that v5 is superior respect to v6? 🙂

jvstratum

Hi,

I don't see your point.

The new drag & drop editor is much more user friendly
It's easy to create a follow-up campaign with Automated Campaigns. It's documented here https://docs.acymailing.com/advanced/send-follow-up-messages-based-on-subscription and here https://docs.acymailing.com/main-pages/automations
In v6 for Joomla there are also menu items for front-end access

If you have specific issues or questions, please post them in the forum, or, if you have a valid Essential or Enterprise subscription, raise a support ticket. We'll do whatever we can to help you.

All v5 features will come to v6. If you are waiting for specific features, or maybe even want new features, make a list and post it on the contact form on Acyba's website.

Tortora

Hi Dear,

Drag & Drop could be useful if it's super-fast in loading after adding every piece or block. It's a mess if there is even tiny delay. And it seems that there is some delay in v6 of AcyMailing when you drag & drop element.

Morover: it would be superior in terms of UX for veeery graphic items. For something like e-mail, it's like if you have to write a book and instead of using a word editor like Words or Pages, you use a slide presenter like Power Point or Key Point: yes, you can arrive at the end, but with a very big dose of frustration.

"Easy" doesn't mean intuitive. Take AcyMailing v5 campaign/follow up: you create a campaign, that add emails in that campaign. That is: there is a "container" (campaign) with their option, in which there are the "content" (all the follow up emails, with their specific options).

And when you create them, you follow the natural flow of this: first thing (container/campaign) first, then the content. In v6 there is not this "flow". Take again example of book: for v6, it's like if I ask you to write the book, starting with page 1 of chapter 1, then page 2 of chapter 2, then page 3 of chapter 3... Then go back to page 2 of chapter 1, page 2 of chapter 2, and so on...

Morover: the automated campaign in v6 store the email created inside of them, in a place not possible to manage from back end; in v5 you can go in the email/followup, manage them (delete/modify/& so on) intuitively.

If I the only experiencing this "difficulties", maybe I have to study v6 much more respect what I did. I would like only to know if there are someone else experiencing this.

Very thanks for your work. 🙂