All About Oikos

In the early days, when we were planning to make Oikos, we decided we wanted to build a web application that could grow with the communities who were using it. We didn’t want to have different versions of Oikos, where we would release a version, wait a year or two, then release a new version. We wanted Oikos development to be an ongoing process, with lots of small updates. It’s an idea we still believe in, but because the first major upgrade to Oikos is so huge, we felt the need to call it Version 2 (V2).

Oikos is built on the Adobe Flash platform. Right after we finished building Oikos Version 1 (V1), Adobe released a much better version of Flash– a version that was incompatible with their prior release. We had a decision to make. We wondered, “Do we continue to build with the old version of Flash, or do we go back to the drawing board and start from scratch?” We decided our only option was to start all over again, building with the new version of Flash.

The good news is that the new version of Flash is better in every way, which means the new version of Oikos will be better in every way. In the coming days, we are going to outline the differences between Oikos V1 and V2. We hope you like what you see.