When was JOURNAL disowned by Opencart?

Just curious as to when Opencart decided to disown the Journal theme, or was it never considered accepted from it's first release.

Just trying to establish why a developer would have installed it for us in the first place, maybe it was acceptable once?

sooty wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 17, 2024 8:07 pm

Just curious as to when Opencart decided to disown the Journal theme, or was it never considered accepted from it's first release.

Just trying to establish why a developer would have installed it for us in the first place, maybe it was acceptable once?

IMO it has some nice features and looks. BUT it is their own programming style and doesn't do things in the "Opencart way". It is like taking 70% of opencart and replacing it, and then when you have issues you look to Opencart, and this forum, for support where it is Journal's issue.
So since it isn't opencart's problem/code that's why people here say "Go to journal theme support".
Mike

The Journal3 framework and OpenCart are almost two different things. For more details, see this forum thread.

Unless Journal is paying or incentivizing the partnership, all Journal is doing is stealing open-source community coding and profiting off it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I just got Open Cart 4 days ago and I can already see why there would be tension. Why would you say Journal is getting thrown under the bus while you throw Open Cart under the bus on their own forum?

It is literally a theme that costs money and instead of asking the Journal team, there are people that take out their complaints with Open Cart. The people assisting here spend a lot of time coding and helping people with Open Cart, not Journal, so the easiest solution is to just take their advice instead of arguing.