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Author here. Super happy with this release. It took us 18 months of working on it "side project style". Almost every night and weekends actually. It's a full re

Author here. Super happy with this release. It took us 18 months of working on it "side project style". Almost every night and weekends actually. It's a full rewrite of the current project, with its own advantages and disadvantages of a rewrite. I hope people who used it before and didn't like it, will give it another try this time. I hope that current users who love Monica, will love this new version even more.

asbin 3y ago
co-author here. Very happy about this new release, thank you for all beta-testing!
setgree 3y ago
I just recommended this to a friend who uses a conventional CRM (Salesforce I think) as a personal CRM -- a PRM? (The "C" is no longer relevant) Question about: > the feature I’m most proud of is the ability to customize almost everything in Chandler: from the layout, to the modules you can enable, to the data you can enter about your life. Was this a customer-driven product decision? Based purely on past experience, this seems like the kind of thing that PMs sometimes get very excited about, but then ends up adding a lot of complexity for both developers and users... so I am curious to hear how you thought about the tradeoff :)
- robinhood 3y ago
  This is based on the feedback we've received over the years. Basically, people want so many different things, and the only way we've found to achieve this is to let people use the software the way they want. As a former PM I know that we should 1) avoid settings, and 2) avoid customization as much as possible because of the additional complexity, but this time, in the context of mapping your life, it should be entirely customizable.
chetangoti 3y ago
Congratulations on the Beta and thank you for creating Monica. It states it(Chandler) does not have Import from existing Monica yet. Just wanted to get clarity on: will it get the Import option in future?
- robinhood 3y ago
  Yes we are working on it already. But it's no trivial task so it'll take a bit of time.
KMuncie 3y ago
My wife and I tried to use Monica for many months in the past but had to give up because of the incredibly buggy CardDAV implementation when using iOS. Now that this has come out it seems the issue (https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/6175 https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/6175) was ignored likely because of all this work. Have improvements been made with this in the new version?
- ramones13 3y ago
  I also switched from Monica because of this. I love the features, but no iOS syncing was too painful of a gap.
- kartoffelmos 3y ago
  I considered paying for Monica because to get this feature. Glad I didn't, I suppose. No word from the authors that this is being addressed, and I can't seem to find any mention of CardDAV in the UI...
Semaphor 3y ago
Congratz! As someone who installed Monica several times, and always said "I’ll fill it with data eventually" (and often thinks how useful it would be to have it filled…), I want to use this as an opportunity to try once again. What will the upgrade path be for selfhoster for the later versions? Will there be automatic migrations until 1.0?
jmkni 3y ago
Congrats! Also the name gave me a genuine chuckle
tenebrisalietum 3y ago
Want to say thanks! I really like Monica. I haven't upgraded to 4.0.0 yet (waiting for Debian bookworm to release so I can have PHP 8.1 supported).
ParadisoShlee 3y ago
When is the current hosted monicahq going to upgrade to chandler?

asbin 3y ago

co-author here. Very happy about this new release, thank you for all beta-testing!

setgree 3y ago

I just recommended this to a friend who uses a conventional CRM (Salesforce I think) as a personal CRM -- a PRM? (The "C" is no longer relevant) Question about: > the feature I’m most proud of is the ability to customize almost everything in Chandler: from the layout, to the modules you can enable, to the data you can enter about your life. Was this a customer-driven product decision? Based purely on past experience, this seems like the kind of thing that PMs sometimes get very excited about, but then ends up adding a lot of complexity for both developers and users... so I am curious to hear how you thought about the tradeoff :)

robinhood 3y ago
This is based on the feedback we've received over the years. Basically, people want so many different things, and the only way we've found to achieve this is to let people use the software the way they want. As a former PM I know that we should 1) avoid settings, and 2) avoid customization as much as possible because of the additional complexity, but this time, in the context of mapping your life, it should be entirely customizable.

chetangoti 3y ago

Congratulations on the Beta and thank you for creating Monica. It states it(Chandler) does not have Import from existing Monica yet. Just wanted to get clarity on: will it get the Import option in future?

robinhood 3y ago
Yes we are working on it already. But it's no trivial task so it'll take a bit of time.

KMuncie 3y ago

My wife and I tried to use Monica for many months in the past but had to give up because of the incredibly buggy CardDAV implementation when using iOS. Now that this has come out it seems the issue (https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/6175 https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/6175) was ignored likely because of all this work. Have improvements been made with this in the new version?

ramones13 3y ago
I also switched from Monica because of this. I love the features, but no iOS syncing was too painful of a gap.
kartoffelmos 3y ago
I considered paying for Monica because to get this feature. Glad I didn't, I suppose. No word from the authors that this is being addressed, and I can't seem to find any mention of CardDAV in the UI...

Semaphor 3y ago

Congratz! As someone who installed Monica several times, and always said "I’ll fill it with data eventually" (and often thinks how useful it would be to have it filled…), I want to use this as an opportunity to try once again. What will the upgrade path be for selfhoster for the later versions? Will there be automatic migrations until 1.0?

jmkni 3y ago

Congrats! Also the name gave me a genuine chuckle

tenebrisalietum 3y ago

Want to say thanks! I really like Monica. I haven't upgraded to 4.0.0 yet (waiting for Debian bookworm to release so I can have PHP 8.1 supported).

ParadisoShlee 3y ago

When is the current hosted monicahq going to upgrade to chandler?