Upcoming VMD rebuild

[johnleider]

I wanted to give an update on what is going on with VMD and address some of the concerns in regards to updates or support.

The initial VMD Free was built on v1 of Vuetify while VMD PRO was built months later on v2. This caused a major disconnect in solving issues and propagating fixes between the 2 versions. VMD Free was upgraded to v2 later on but it took way longer than it should have and it was still a separate project. The separation ended up being a bigger problem than I anticipated.

Ultimately this caused more help requests than I could handle. While VMD is built on top of Vuetify, not every aspect is custom and would result in numerous help requests that had nothing to do with the theme. Vuetify is a massive library and it was being confused as being built specifically for VMD.

Due to this I ultimately closed the premium-theme-support channel in Q4 of last year. Flash forward with covid and I didn't have the bandwidth to bring it back.

At this moment I'm about 50% done converting VMD to our current standardized structure (what's used in newer Vuetify themes). This version will accommodate both the Free and the PRO version of the theme and with any lucky resolve majority, if not all, of the issues that users were having.

I appreciate your patience and in the meantime I've re-opened the theme channel. If you have questions please feel free to reach out to me https://discord.gg/w2qKXtD.

Thank you,

John Leider

[johnleider]

Update: New structure and all pages complete. Working on the custom styles and then we can start testing.

[dragosct]

Update: New structure and all pages complete. Working on the custom styles and then we can start testing.

Very nice! 😍

[johnleider]

Update: Styling is still in development and taking a little longer than I had hoped, but still making progress. I've been working to clean-up the code significantly as well and am quite happy with the results.

A note, the end of this month is going to be slow due to kids going back to school, the new Vuetify docs are releasing soon (check it out! https://next.vuetifyjs.com) and September 1st we kick off full development on the next version of Vuetify.

I greatly appreciate everyone's patience, thank you.

[johnleider]

Update: Rewrite is complete and is waiting on feedback and review. Releases next week.

[SzabZol]

Any news here? The latest version is still 2.1.0.