I just started using Corvid and while it’s very good, one can quickly and very easily hit a wall because obvious features are missing. Examples include the ability to set user roles and passwords programmatically through backend code and customize password reset emails.
In this forum, there seem to be some powerusers who help out others (like @givemeawhisky) but I haven’t seen moderators or Wix folks in a long time.
Is Corvid moving forward? Is there a roadmap for improvement?
As a Wix user, I want to know if I should invest my effort here or move my site elsewhere.
It would be great for users to know, for instance, if certain features are contemplated and being worked on.
Please note that us ninja’s are only doing it in our free time, so we are sometimes on a lot or sometimes we are hardly on at all, iit is just random chance (or luck!) who you get to help on a certain day.
As for the Wix Mods, please take note of the time differences for all of us and also bear in mind that this Corvid forum is not just their only responsibility, they are off doing other parts to their job roles as well so they can’t always respond to your forum posts straight away.
Other times they might be called away and be too busy on another project to answer a forum post on a certain day, that is one reason why they have utilised the ninja brigade so that we can hopefully help and answer on their behalf and they can correct us when they get back to the forum again.
As for Wix and Wix Corvid moving forward, well yes it is, there are lots of interesting things happening in the background that we don’t know about and other things that are in the pipeline that are soon to be announced to us, either through alpha and beta testing or released if the feature is fully stable and ready to roll for example.
If you have questions for the mods directly, I highly suggest using @ to tag them, and also making sure the question fits the rules of the forum (if it’s a support non-Corvid question, go to support), as well as looking for the answer first in the forum. I don’t know your posting history, but just a general rule.
As for new Corvid features…there have been tons of welcome changes in the past year (I mean TONS), but I would also like it if they used the blog to communicate this, since right now the Corvid blog looks like just a ton of marketing material tbh.
Corvid is improving all the time and like David said, there has been tons of new features and improvements along this incredible journey.
I have to agree with you on a couple of point. I think there needs to be specific Corvid by Wix moderators on this forum who are here to support and answer question. That’s all there job would be. Currently it’s a little disjointed, sometimes you will get the moderators and sometimes you won’t.
Although the moderators aren’t here to babysit us and write our code, the fact that people in this forum and sometimes the moderators from Wix, come on and help with code is just amazing. It’s a real community vibe and It’s what makes Corvid and Wix different to the rest.
Another point i’d like to make, and i hope they are listening. The Wix team used to be really on point with updating the ‘Coming Soon’ section but for the past 6 months or so, the exact same roadmap has been on there with a few of the things already completed or in beta. Why isn’t this section being updated? I notice features, components etc being rolled out that wasn’t even on that list. It’d be good to know.
Corvid is a different type of product from Wix, we are dealing with Developers and people who are scaling the platform to the max - we deserve to know and have an insight into the product dev cycle. Unlike the normal Wix products - for the day to day DIY user.
I hope the Wix team can see my message and take this as a positive constructive message.
They should do it similar to Webflow Wishlist. You have to log in, and can upvote features that they have entered, then have filters for ‘In Progress’ + ‘In Backlog’ + ‘Considering’ + ‘In beta’ + ‘Completed’
As professional we need to be able to rely on our partners (Wix) to do our job correctly.
@Marcelo, as said before the product is evolving and is fairly new compare to other Wix product. Even Though it’s not complete and lack some needed feature I see it move in the right direction.
Regarding the use of another platform, It really depends on the type of clients you wish to have. If you want to be able to customize everything and build app and platform, Wix is not (yet) the good platform for that.
If your clients need small to medium customization to the already existing wix app, then corvid let you do many things. You’ll have to learn the hard way what possible and what is not unfortunately.
David, I tried summoning the mods directly in the Wix Blog Forum and received one hit from one mod, but it quickly died out and I never heard back from that mod. So, problem not solved (I am trying to figure out why new Blog post notifications aren’t going out, and how to programmatically set a new site member as a “subscriber”).
If the mods cared about this forum they’d be here answering these questions. I don’t see them around.
As a developer, the most important question is: “Should I invest my effort on this platform? Will they continue to improve and support my effort with more API features?”
And I feel that Wix is dropping the ball with developers by neglecting this forum AND by not providing a roadmap so that developers have an idea of where things are going.
@marcelo25925 How are you declaring members to be subscribers in general? Is there a paywall or is it just some custom field in PrivateMembersData?
I get it, and I agree to an extent. My experience has been that they do roll out features for Corvid constantly, but communication that they exist is just not there. In the partners dashboard you get much more info regarding new additions, but typically not Corvid stuff.
Hey everyone! wanted to add the Wix perspective here… thanks for starting this conversation, Marcelo, and thanks everyone else for chiming in. Yes, Wix is heavily invested in Corvid and the Wix development platform and we’re continually releasing new features and improving the experience. That said, we hear your feedback and we know we need to be better at communicating new features, creating the content around them, and connecting between your feature requests to projects in the pipeline that are coming soon.
We’re working on a such a solution right now to improve visibility to our roadmap. In the meanwhile, make sure to follow the tips and updates category in the forum to get new alerts. Be sure to add top requests to the feature request category- while it might not be clear enough that it’s being addressed- we’re listening and using your feedback to prioritize what’s coming next.
So stay tuned…
Hey guys and @marcelo25925
sorry for the late reply! a few things we’re cooking up. Some improvements/features in the product itself- we’ve started updating more coming soon features ( here ), and making sure the releases and updates page is up to date (you can now subscribe to it to make sure you get all of the most recent updates to your email every week.
We’re redesigning the feature-request/coming-soon experience to stay up to par with industry standards (so you can understand the relationship between the two - what’s happening with what I’d like to see out)- this is still in progress.
Two exciting releases that are right up the alley are the Secrets Manager (store your API keys securely) and database backups. We’re also working to improve our approval of NPM requests, and releasing new APIs weekly.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, we’ve just launched the new examples page with improved performance, filtering, and bug fixes, and will work through the next months to create many new examples for common use cases. We’re also cooking up a Corvid showcase area where you can get inspired by creative things our users are doing on Corvid.
As I’m sure the rest of the forum is interesting in this, I’ll repost this in the tips-and-updates section as well.
