While I appreciate the lean approach of aC feather, the reduced feature set definitively doesn’t cut it for me. Now you say that it won’t even possible to compensate the shortcomings with third party apps?
I’ll stay with aC4 for now – even if this has it’s issues, too and the UI is outdated …

We run the activeCollabTimer3, so if this is counted as a module plugin, we wouldn’t be able to consider it until the in-house AC timer was available.

Utterly disappointed! Activecollab has become just as replaceable as every other task manager. It’s in no way a replacement for AC4. I’m even more disappointed as Activecollab really needed improvements and bug-fixes as well. The invoicing is hardly professional., etc. So I was really hoping that Feather would address the shortcomings with a more usable interface. But to just throw out all the pro-features is just ridiculous. So, as it’s unlikely that AC 4 will be continued, we’ll have to start looking again, after just one year of using it. I guess sooner or later they’ll realise that one should possibly listen to your customer base and not just go after every design trend. So, so sad!

Guess this is where they fall out of the game, clearly they don’t care about all their existing customers, I will show them also how I care about them, will not be upgrading, there are now better solutions out there, although I think we will rather develop our own custom software. Cheers AC, it was good, but your road has come to an end….

Maybe its time someone develops a whole new system? We all know what are the basic core requirements for a system. AC has been trying to make improvements (without much success i think) at the cost of core features and this is just another major step in that direction. We would personally like a new UI but not at the cost of core features. We still miss the user roles management that previous versions provided.

Good luck to AC and their team. As Nirav has stated, every business is in it to make money and along the way changes are made that will lose customers. Hopefully those changes acheive whatever the aim of the company is eg attract more customers, attract a different type of customer, make more money, be easier to maintain and hence more efficient, be ready to sell the product etc

My personal viewpoint is that community, feedback and third part integrations are absolutely essential to a customer lead product or service. The route AC have taken does not appeal to me due to the loss of key features and as someone else has pointed out, makes their product very mainstream with all the other options out there. I have looked a many products over the last two years and have come across some pretty good ones so will be looking to move to one of those at some point. Stick with AC4 for now. If anyone wants to know the alternatives out there, happy to send them a list. Just email me.

Thanks Nirav and team for your products and help and I do wish you the best with whatever venture you go down. Would appreciate it if I could get access to those last updates of your modules for AC4 as my subscription ran out a couple of months before and you will appreciate it is a little pointless to renew that now. Thanks

same here, will eb staying with AC4 – Really disappointed with
the direction AC5 has taken and of all features being lost – as one blogger put
it – “my world has turned upside down”

Here are a few to mention in order of project life,

Creating new project – custom labels/fields – was useful – was able to create a
“network directory path” – with 11 staff in the office, all can copy and paste to project location for files on the server network. etc.

Milestones – Ability to create a group of pre-set milestones and task in
master template – ours are sorted by phases of project life.

Projects List – when you have over 100 Projects, having a visual of seeing all of them in a list organized by client is key – now you can see at a glance only 6 projects at best

Notebooks and pages, ability to create “categories”, etc.
record project data to have virtual notebook for all project data allowing easy
recording/sorting/storing and retrieving of information. Now you can only
create “notes”. We also had our company “project” where
recorded all company policies, FAQ’s, how-to’s, memos, etc. AC5 has taken all that use away.

To Do – simple to do list for projects – this is different from task and notes!

Access controls for each user, client etc. – this was huge allowing ability to invite many collaborators and different permission levels.

Adding people – cant just add them and list them as key players or involved individuals in project – you now actually have to invite them.

Project Summary – home screen of project, yes you can see project recent activities, but no longer can see Date Created, Category,
Progress, Client, Leader, Status, Budget, Label, Project Directory Location(custom label), Project Address(custom label), Logos (custom label, etc.

Now AC5 is a simple to do list task management and no longer a project management application. Its funny how AC5 announcement speaks about the launch of Feather and the thought process behind it that they wanted to make it simple since when potential user
look for a solution don’t spend more than a minute looking at an application
and dismissing it if they don’t like it. That’s exactly what I would have done
looking at Feather – there is nothing here to be a project management tool – it’s
a simple to do list application – Google and Microsoft have better ones…

I have self-hosted active collab and I’ve installed AC5 and migrated data to test it. In order for it to work for me, I will need Time Reports Plus for the self hosted active collab 5 version. Are you in the process of updating Time Reports Plus so we can install it on active collab 5 and when do you think it will be ready?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe they did away with “Heartbeat” because it caused a ton of problems in the beta release. Search is now handled server side with Elasticsearch.

So we set up a test instance of activeCollab 5, and migrated a copy of our data. The new version is very fast, pretty, and completely worthless to us without Time Reports Plus. With the inadequate reports we will need to either stick with activeCollab 4, or move to a new system.

Any hope of porting Time Reports Plus to activeCollab 5, now that there is a self-hosted version?