Coming along nicely and works as it should, shows great potential for expansion however unlike SoulReaver i do not use CB and dont want to see another component filled with CB options ;)

overall it has a little way to go yet but its very complete at the moment.

The improvements that have been made are both welcomed and well put into place, works without issue and is fantastic

I actually unlike some of the other reviews went the other way around, i switched from JomComment ( pro ) to JoomlaComment - the biggest reason for me is this is a far lighter component and its integration is less troublesome and they actually do use version numbers not build numbers which are difficult to track

The only downside to this component is its lack of spam triggers it would be nice if the badword filter which transforms from bad to acceptable also provided an "auto delete upon words" so a spam zappper could be put to use

This is without a doubt one of the best, the themes are novel, the ability to export into other components is neat BUT it has always felt way to heavy in the end having used the pro version for near a year i dropped for !JoomlaComment

i do love this gallery it works as advertised and the option to simply upload a folder within the main folder and it will automatically create categories for said folders, however a downside to this is there is ( not that ive found ) no way to set global permissions upon these new categories so when i create them im stuck with running an SQL query to get them all set to public viewable in one swift move

other than that this extension is growing in new ways with each release and only gets better each time.

Great little system, however there are a few things i have over looked or cannot seem to locate. The first would be the usage of a rel=tag" method to allow services like technorati to pick them up. The second would be the option to re-use used tags in the content without the need to use the edit, checkbox or similar would be novel

DOCman much like the phoenix is one of those components that was the best in its field in the 1.3.x incarnation all be it with small issues. The 1.4.x release has allowed this component in terms of 'community' to rise from the dead the response time and general feel of the community is excellent.

In terms of features i think DOCman could very very easy be put down as a directory component its flexible nature allows any user with a few hours to mess around with it and produce pretty much anything they want!

The only downside .. to me.. is the theme setup is ok very very neat but very difficult and things like this are known to hold components back ( simpleboard )

Given that virtually every issue with 1.3 is gone and 1.4 is building on new features and new ways to expand i expect DOCman will have a very bright future ;)

The improvements are welcomed and do add a touch of improvement to the original component. However one of if not the biggest problem remains for me. I'm sure a lot of webmasters out there use categories with similar if not multiple names, the general selection of your category is a pain - or maybe it is just for me having so many items with similar names its general pot luck if i get the right category they can submit too....

a point of this would be on www.ircnews.co.uk we use the category bots, eggdrop, mirc, client no less than 4 times... personally if this was in there it would be an excellent addition .. but as it stands its somewhat of a downer..

Given that im quite a fan of SMF and its community and had tried simpleboard before and the biggest put off for me was the look of it, it looks and continues to look horrid without lots of effort, granted the modern webmaster is supposed to be a jack of all trades, but personally if its not stick men i dont fair too well.

So having opted for SMF over simpleboard i stumbled upon this and have wanted a full "in house" system over a bridge for the simple basis of upgrades, tracking and other ideals like that, that aid in making my life easier ;)

So having stumbled upon Fireboard quite honestly by mistake i took a look not expecting much more than a tweaked up simpleboard ( similar to the phpBB fully modded boards if you know those ? )

Perhaps given my total lack of expecting much or maybe due to the quality of this component i was quite stunned how not only good it did look but also how well organized it is, everything has its own place and overall i to be fair stopped reading all the little help lines mostly due to the fact there is that much help put into each option that you kinda get fed up of reading - and note, not crammed !

Given that this is beta there are obviously downsides, themes between beta 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 dont work, this given its beta this is expected - hopefully there will be some stability between production release changes that prevent total death of templates or the ability to revert back to default on errors, some form of option like that.

The one thing that did throw me a little was the inserting of sample data the popup after the click on install on fresh database made me wonder why i did actually receive that but it i assume its just a debug flag turned on (?) or just to inform the user what it will be doing

Option wise this seems to have everything you can imagine put into it, file uploads, image uploads, avatar control, moderators, statistics and so on - if i was to look for one real thing i did not like at all about the configuration it would have to be in the permissions per board/cat.

Again perhaps due to my bias being and SMF fan i do look for in any new/existing forum system im trying out for a good solid permission system and im still stuck for who has the best in all fairness, in terms of configurable options and variables SMF wins hands down, simplicity phpBB and the inevtween for me is IPB - but with Fireboard the permissions i did feel we're its major weakness and quite threw me at times but overall and again for a beta this has a lot of potential and a lot of good is coming from this project.

It would be hard to say its the best forum system out there for joomla _at the moment_ in terms of forum components, then yes i would say its quite easy the best but if you bring bridges into it i think its close but not quite yet on that par - but as per the owners reply to another reviewers post "smf have been in the forum market for 5 years" - which in itself isnt correct as prior to SMF they were out and about coding there own php fork of the perl forum system YaNNSE

Very good effort, showing a lot of promise and i hope this project does continue to grow with joomla

This is perhaps one of the most beautiful components to ever look at, the design is simply perfect everything is at hand. Install was a breeze and the entire look of the component oozes class, i hear this is no where near finished but i couldnt give it anymore props truely wonderful hats off to the devs behind this.