What I like least about FC

I get what you're saying and I think a lot of things will come as the plugin matures. We've just got Followers, and we know Events is in the works. Course certificates, image slides, that sort of stuff is not "essential" to this platform and its only natural I think that you'd need to add things to customise your own community.

If you're coming from BuddyBoss for example you'll already be used to having to pay for something like The Events Calendar (then pay for their addons for tickets etc if you want that), and LearnDash (which has over $500 worth of addons if you want every feature). FluentCommunity has an amazing core that they have made sure is extendable. It's extremely affordable in comparison to what you'd need to create an equivalent community elsewhere, and it may be that to get "advanced" features you'll have to rely on some 3rd party addons.

Agreed! Aside from the improvement in UI / UX, FC misses out on a lot of common sense features for a product of this category.

If you look at other WP Manage Ninja products, they are continuously improved and enhanced. I don't think this one is raw, but developers have a choice. Release a viable product while maintaining a roadmap of enhancements to follow or keep things in development and never release until everything is just perfect. Even then, someone will complain that it doesn't have a tint control knob.

Releasing a viable product gives the business revenue to keep developing more features and more products. The fact that I keep seeing enhancements to the products I've purchased is a benefit that I like.

If FluentCommunity isn't right for you, what is? There are other plugins or SaaS tools on the market. Most of those have been around longer and are more mature. Which one works for you and your budget?

FC is definitely not a complete plugin and there are trade offs that we have to make i.e functionality, speed, layout etc. Sure there are things in FC I would still love to see, however am grateful for what we have already.

FC will be ever evolving like BuddyBoss (BB) was/is, BB never had everything upfront when they first launched. BB has been in the making now for 15 years so of course they will have a lot more bells and whistles vs FC vs 1 year. Lately BB has been slow to release new features promised like forever where FC has been one up on them with newly released features.

The ninja's have made some great progress in this last year, as long as they keep the momentum they have been with FC we are in good shape. Sure certain features will take longer than others which is all dependent on what the demand is of the feature(s).

I personally feel the ninja's are doing their best, they have ramped up on their customer feedback communication a lot and monitoring this community a lot more which is re-assuring. Plus their customer support is superb!

I think you are misinterpreting my message, it will be because I use Google Translate, sorry I do not speak English, as I said I am delighted with FC and I thank the ninjas for all the work done, my message what I want to convey is that small things that people are demanding, either do not exist or are plaging from third parties for payment, for example custom fields or many things that Jorge de los Reyes provides would be used in updates, I am happy that other developers create plugins, since thanks to that my community started, for me the third-party plugins for events and course certificates are very important for example and I thank Ross FCA and WiLson Eberechi who developed it and happy for the payment made thanks to that they helped me develop my project.