I mean it works very well and fast. I'm terrible myself at creating good designs so I do wish it came with a default template to it. It's definitely very simple even in it's "look" but I won't count off for the fact that it works beautifully. I like the way it looks up users with ease and recognizes comma delimited usernames! I highly recommend this if you're looking for a very simple solution for messaging on your site. A note to the author: you should set it up to use templates and this thing will be phenomenal! I can only imagine what people could make this design look like...

This is a great module! Spices up a site in seconds! Only real problem is that it inserts the tag to the stylesheet in the body of the template where the module is located. So it makes that page not XHTML compliant due to the link tag not being in the head section. This module is fairly flexible but you cannot change the author/date part without hard coding. According to others, it seems it does not process normal HTML tags in the intro text. Oh and you cannot have more 1 mini-frontpage modules on the same page. Other than that it is a very awesome install, place and go module that will really make your articles stand out better.

Does exactly what it's suppose to and easily customizable. Even has the Module Class Suffix added.

This component would be awesome but like many others have posted, why are you given a new window/tab for the Dashboard?

It's integrated into Joomla extremely well and very well written, but I would like to see the dashboard implemented into the MainBody instead or at least an option? (Pop up or MainBody)

Also, I can't seem to get any other commenting components to work with it, yet I have the plugin/mambots published for the commenting. I personally use J!Reactions.

Lastly, it doesn't even use my Joomla editor.

Other than that, it seems to be a great blogging component.

The has to be one of my favorite modules of all. I like not having to use Main Text at all, with this module I can display my content with automated intro and read more links.

However, at the moment I have a few problems with the module: (1) I can't display anything that is in "mosMainBody()" if I have this module above it, (2) It will cut off coding and appear broken, and (3) Not all mambots will work, like my comment system is suppose to have a link by read more for how many comments there are.

Other than that, It's great!

Great component for custom PHP components. I just wish there was a Module version now! Great job!

This is probably the best Events calendar I've ever used and seen. There were a few kinks in 1.6 but now in 1.6.2 it really has kicked it up a notched with a Mini Cal, Upcoming events and Searching mods; it's really moving on up!

I enjoy this Event calendar so much because I donn't have to hardcode anything to fit my site, and it looks beautiful. The Weekly view is still sketchy (but definitely unlike ANY other event calendar out now) and the Editing events in the frontend don't work yet, BUT with all the work these guys are putting into the project there will be a fix in no time.

Great job!

I like joomlaboard, still a few missing items and the entire board isn't entirely customizable through the template. You can only fully customize the "Reading of a Post" part. Also, I've had to shut off file uploads because people (only registered) were uploading index files that somehow route themselves to the root. Even though I don't accept htm, html, php, etc. uploads. For the most part it's a good forum.

If anyone can point me in the right direction for Nick's fixed version that'd be great.

I wouldn't say this is an "Editor's Pick" just because it can't really be used for anything else other than band shows and what not. If there was a "repeat event" option for gigs I could turn it into an ideal DJ Schedule for our Radio station. I'm getting sick of extCal but this doesn't help unfortunately.

It's probably a very good choice for those who do need to manage the scheduling for bands and one time only events. Other than manually entering all dates afterwards.

Install was very simple and straight forward. I read all the reviews and saw alot of similar things I thought of as well for improvement.

* Settings in admin needs to be cleaner.
* Maybe a button of some sort to turn on/off a "chime" for new messages.

And, my two biggest issues are these:
* If you reload the page entirely, you see the last 10 messages. Which is fine; however, I wish that I could either set a fixed height (vert scrollbar when necessary) and/or set how many messages will stay on the page without reloading. I don't like how it continues to grow and grow until you reload the whole page. (Sorry, I tried setting the 'height' in the css file, but it never seemed to care about that).
* My other big issue for improvement is color coding "Guests" (who put in their own name so they could pretend to be another user) from "Registered" users. Like Blue for registered and green for guests. That'd be a nice add; that or have a prefix added to their name.

However all in all, this is a great mod/com!