Comments on: Joomla! 1.5 is infested with bugs!

By: kashmir

kashmir — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:46:48 +0000

Sorry guys, I love Joomla 1.5. RC usually have bugs, it is intended to test its features and build new extensions and test them too. So not for produckion sites. Besides that bugs are always found - windows update, IE securoty fixes, Mac fixes, even Iphone fixes are comming out all the time. And of course you can install extensions, more and better ones as time passes.

By: Elixir

Elixir — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:18:34 +0000

I used to run my site on e107 CMS. It was fast and simple. Then I got into Joomla and Drupal.

My first Joomla site 1.0.x loaded faster than my 1.5 site. I have read many threads about Joomla1.5 loading slow. The consensus is: live with it. Well, I can’t. My site takes so long to load on the first try that sometimes it times out. That looks great when you’re trying to show your site to clients! NOT!

Over the last few months, I started to look more favorably at Drupal. I upgraded a Drupal 4.x to 5.7 and it went off smoothly. Much more smoothly than Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 (ugh!) The jury is still out on Drupal 6, though. But it can’t be any worse than Joomla 1.5.

I have been teaching my techs to use Joomla 1.0 if necessary just because it is faster and apparently more stable than 1.5. But today, I’m changing course and going Drupal again. Yee ha. Maybe back to e107?? LOL!

By: Anil Passi

Anil Passi — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:17:18 +0000

404 issue was being faced because the template of Joomla 1.x wasn’t in the 1.5 environment.

Its resolved now

By: Simon Rycroft

Simon Rycroft — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:49:45 +0000

As yet we have not had any need to migrate any sites to 1.5, but I guess we will have to pretty soon. I don’t know how much longer the development team plan to continue supporting the 1.0.x branch.

By: Anil

Anil — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:18:45 +0000

Of course the fresh install is stable. But how goes the migration?
Joomla Forum is full of postings by people stating 404 errors after migrating their websites to 1.5. But no meangful solutions available yet.

I am in a fix whether to leave old site on 1.0.x and start new one with J1.5. Surely this means giving up all the old contents, not ideal at all

By: Simon Rycroft

Simon Rycroft — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:22:19 +0000

We are in the final stages of developing our own auto-installer scripts for 1.5 and so far our tests suggest that fresh installs are very stable. We haven’t done any test migrations from 1.0.x installations yet so I would be very interested to hear what experiences people are having.

By: Anil

Anil — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:15:15 +0000

I am hitting very fundamental bugs with with stable 1.5.1 version

Perhaps testing was done well for new installation of Joomla 1.5.x

However I believe testing was not done on migrated websites.
Even simple things like Old Menu structures os 1.0.x give 404 error

I am giving up on my Joomla 1.5.1 migration, after having wasted almost entire weekend

By: Ric

Ric — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:41:04 +0000

Can anyone really run Joomla1.5….

By: Simon Rycroft

Simon Rycroft — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:50:12 +0000

On one hand, I agree.

On the other, we get asked quite regularly by customers if they should install 1.5. Now we just point them at this article

By: John Maxwell

John Maxwell — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:57:05 +0000

Of course it has bugs. If it did not, it would be stable. Come on now, you are wasting bandwidth.