If you place a question on CB Forum, they only answer you telling that would be better if you buy a subscrition, so why they allow us to post there ??

Would be a lot better for all and less frustrating if they allow posts from payer members only.

Nevertheless I found the CB helpfull.

The component is just great once you get to configure it to have a look as you would like,works great and there are a lot of plug-ins available for CB to make it even more richer and fully packed.Thank you!

I have been using CB (Community Builder) for a few years with personal websites as well as those of clients. I have never been more pleased with a script than I have been with CB. So many people have it that getting answers to questions has never been an issue. The one time I decided to experiment with something else was a big waste of time. I purchased Azrul's JomSocial and wow was that A BIG MISTAKE (Lack of support, and non-removal of developer's links/brand marks,etc). It's worth it to purchase a CBuilder license, considering the many extensions and integration. From what I have seen in the past 2 years, CB has only gotten better with no signs of stopping! Keep up the good work folks at CB.

Community Builder is one of the weirdest components I've ever come across. While it does all the things it should do - at least in principle - it is far from running smoothly. However, Community Builder does keep dev-work on your site interesting. Here are a couple of the issues I've come across so far that completely boggle my mind:

- When installing CB on my site's sister site and keeping the tab-settings identical, the result is vastly different.
- CB does not use the standard Joomla userbase, but insists on duplicating it for no apparent reason.
- This second userbase needs to be synched with the primary one. There is no automated way of doing this. Instead, it needs to be handled via cronjobs.
- Tabs and fields have the annoying habit of simply not working.
- There appears to be a cache system somewhere that makes articles you've written show up at any given moment from 2 hours to 72 hours of them being posted on the site.
- Despite disabling E-Mailing me through the site, people are still able to do so.

I have long since given up on doing anything worthwhile with the plugin, but keep it around in order to at least have some decent kind of user profile handling, since the core Joomla one does not even meet the basic requirements. However, I am actively working on replacing CB with something else.

However, you have to commend the folks over at Joomlapolis on their work. They work hard on their component and do their best, even though they do their best in quite bizarre places. Their support is very good and they do their best to counter all problems that might occur. The thought occurs that it might be easier to fix those things in the software itself, though.

This extension is so poorly coded, that any change you want to make requires you to hack it all the time. Adding the fact, that its template system is nightmare (nothing to do with the standard Joomla! template overwrites), adding also the fact that it uses some strange way of translation (again, not the standard Joomla! ini files), I think it could be much better, but not now.

I am glad to have selected this, made a novice like me to a developer. The platform is sure what it says, no matter if there are few things which may make things uncomfortable or sound hard to accomplish but that is exactly something required to be better understood and thus the tutorials.

If you are not a good follower of tutorials like me, no worries the support team is the best I had ever come across anywhere. Determined, point wise, very attentive, polite and the best part considerate and forgiving. This is purely my experience with them.

Thank You so much Guys. You guys did the backend making easy for anyone to become a programmer.....lol

I so want to love this component, but it just confuses the heck out of me sometimes. I'm a pretty tech-savy guy, but I have to have the manual next to me to do much of anything with CB on my site.

Don't get me wrong: it is strong, robust, powerful and feature-rich... but it's not intuitive. I hope the developers will look into that in the future.

If you want to use this extension--by all means accept my recommendation--and be sure to put on a pot of coffee as you set it up.

This component is a must have for any community site, mainly because it is highly customisable and lots of people have written add-ons for CB or have made their software compatible with it! The range of plug ins is just baffling.

The only bad thing I have experienced is that the public relations guy on their website, 'Nant A' I think, is really unfriendly. But otherwise full marks!

Quite good, although I would love to have a whole suite of facebook extensions integrated in CB.... Installation was easy thanks to the ease of use instructions, i installed jConnector, but that doesn't do what i'm looking for.... keep up the good work!

This is realy the best component ever :)

I first want to say this is a good componet easy to install takes some time to learn all the ins and outs.for me a beginner i was almost over come by all the options it has,,except for one no captcha unless you pay for a membership?? i find this odd since alot of other mod's or comp's out there offer it built in..would have given a higher rating it it had it....

This is the best Joomla component ever. It is fast, easy to manage and works well in the backend of the Joomla site.

When I first installed CB 1.2 I was overwhelmed with the amount of modules, plugins and general information that CB has. I found myself playing with a lot of those items. If I would have Stopped here I would give this an excellent rating. But my reviews do not just concern one aspect of anything.. After 4-5 months of use I realize that CB is not for me or the site I'm currently working on... I uninstall all the modules and components. I uninstall Cb it gives me 2 errors. One about how it can't find the uninstall and the other I do not remember. I manually go through my components, module, and plugins. I find a few items listed by beat and joomlajoe AKA joomlapolis. I'm think I do no want to start over on this site since it launches Sunday Oct 11, My backups all have the CB builder in them so that wouldn't help... So I go to the joomlapolis forums and do a search for uninstall community builder. it drops the builder but brings up 109 options. I'm thinking ok this should be fun but I want this fixed right. So I search all 109 (4 pages) and find 4 asking how to uninstall CB properly or how to remove the databases and if it will mess things up. Only one that I saw had any responses to it and it was not directed towards the uninstall but towards the error the user was recieving. the only 3 had the topics close and I quote "The topic has been locked. " with no response or link. I decided what the heck I'll try and get that answer questioned myself. Low and Behold "The topic has been locked." No answer. I posted it in the correct area CB 1.2 Stable General Discussion Area Didn't scream, cry, whine, or be unpleasant in any way shape or forum. I just asked for a list of files that need to be removed. I currently have 3 modules that I think should be removed. I just wanted comfirmation.. This is why at best i will give a fair rating. I hope you have better success with thim

I am using your Components, Plugin and Modules they are with very good functionality and working properly. Cong to all of you your team you have done excellent job.

we found best for custom & small amout is really returns more then it worth

Ultra easy to install with the detailed instructions. Very versatile. I like best that it gives admin the ability to add unique items to user profiles. Thank you for a great tool!

The extension is the best choice to use for community sites as it is powerful, has a lot of plugins for almost every need. Though there should be more modern execution, I guess. But as it is free - it's great

Simply the best community extension for Joomla, yes even better than the other "social" extension you have to pay for. As you can see, whatever you need there is a CB plugin for it. Would it be nice to have all of the extra features like User Activity, User Blogs, User Photos and etc included in the box? Yes but the beauty of CB is that it is a framework, an API for developers to create awesome additions.

I notice though that some users (my clients for example) have some trouble understanding the power of CB and its installation, but give it a try, read the installation PDF slowly and you'll have an install community!

P.S. I see even bigger things in the future for CB, with the CB developers taking over GroupJive's development and partnering with the guys at Kunena for increased integration of CB and the forum extension, things are only going to get better!

This offers a lot of good functions. Together with other "plugins" like the uddeIM it is a very complete solution.

Thanks!

/Anders

Community Builder is great, it has many many extensions and you can customize it in any way you want. The only downside is that it takes some time to customize and get it to run like you want. I was very afraid at first, will this be what I need, it has so many files to install, will it invalid my site ? Answer is try it for yourself and you'll like it! It deserves 5 out of 5!