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Sorry guys, but I will write one fair review.
I was really excited when reading about this extension and decided to download it, but...

1) On the download link is written: "LinX version 1.2.3" Actually, there is available only LinX 1.1 version which is very poor extension. Where to download the latest version?

2) There is some totally wrong link in the very beginning after installing this extension what makes me think nothing good about it.

3) It works only with "Legacy"...why there is written something else in the description! That's what you say: "Updated to work in Joomla 1.5 Legacy Mode. Added container to ease styling".
About that funny poor "container" I'll better say nothing.

4) What makes me really angry, that 50% of this extension are not working. For example: after submitting site, there is a text: "Please check your email to confirm...etc." Nobody will NEVER receive that email, because this option is NOT WORKING! O.k., after this I switched off all email settings and notifications. But guess what...the same story..."Please check your email to confirm...etc." I can do whatever I want in the settings - it will not apply anyway.

5) I would not write this review if I could get some support, but there is trouble again. Im logged in developers website, but all what I get is "You are not authorised to view this resource."

I guess, this is just not my day. But anyway THANK YOU very much for this extension. As long as it's free of charge, people will use it. At least now they will know what to expect. 2 stars from me and please no offense guys.

Hi, great component if you're on 1.0 but will not work correctly in 1.5 legacy mode, please remove from description.

I've been using Linx for over 2 years and absolutely love it. I love it so much that I have subdomain running a second Joomla install in legacy mode just so I can use Linx as my exchange component (because I don't want to run legacy mode on my main site). I visit this page every once in a while to see if Linx has finally been upgraded to J1.5 native - oh well, I'll try again in a few months :-(

Great component! Super easy install and configuration. Very intuitive user interface. And best of all, it's FREE!!!

Many thanks to the developer!!!

The tool is ready to use after installation. It is very easy to use as well.
I wish this can add banner/image for the links as option.
Excellent!!

this is a great extension which allows professional link exchanges.

easy to install and works flawlessly.

thank you!

Don't try it it's doesn't work .... Component's setting are not recorded....

This has been a great little tool! It works very well. I seem to be missing icons for the New/Edit/Delete buttons in the admin panel, but everything else is perfect!

Congratulations for your great extension. Although it works only in Legacy mode in Joomla 1.5, it helped me out pretty much. I've been looking for a module to display the links of user-defined categories, and in a customizable way, but since I haven't found one I decided to make my own module. So my module will be called Val-LinX and I hope is going to be published soon in Joomla Extensions. -Based on your great component. Cheers!

this is a really great component for my needs. The links manager built into joomla doesn't 'point' directly to other websites, which makes it unappealing for link exchanges. this component was easy to install & straightforward in it's use. it's a great way to manage your links section!

I was looking for a simple reciprocal links exchange component for Joomla 1.5. Having read a negative post here about LinX is not working on J1.5, I decided to try by myself. Guys, it does work perfectly! Just don't forget to turn on Legacy mambot in your backend Admin Panel. And then everything works just fine. As to minuses - probably I didn't catch how to put banners along with text links - is there such option? But as soon as I believe the banners are only good lookwise, and almost useless for SE, i can live with that. And even enjoy:) Guys, thanks for your work!/ Yuri Yeleyko, Lviv, Ukraine

Thanks for letting us use this component for free. But the function is poor.

Please add some new features, such as thumbnail/snapshot for links, user rating/vote, visitor's review/comment.

There is also a bug: When I set my own link description in Chinese words, they were turned to unreadable symbols at frontend of this component. That means this component does not support utf-8 encoded double-byte characters.

Well I loved this component when I had joomla 1.0 (but even than I had to make some code changing coz of wrong link code were showing to wisitor) but at the moment I had to jump to 1.5 and unfortunately I cant make it work in UTF 8 encoding using Russian language. Hope there will be solution soon.

This is a nice component for simple reciprocal link management, however it is littered with many PHP notices which render it virtually unusable unless you turn off notice reporting in PHP. This reflects a somewhat sloppy approach to development, and raises concerns over the quality of the programming.

Otherwise, the features are nice, and presentation overall is good - it should fit into most site templates without much tweaking being necessary. There were 3 features that I would really like to see added:

1) Nested categories (you can only have one level of categories at present)
2) Given that the whole point of reciprocal linking is usually to improve search engine ranking (albeit the importance of reciprocal links in this has now diminished significantly), the ability to specify a number of titles/descriptions/URLs for people to link to - perhaps publishing one chosen at random from those available (eg. you get to define 10 different links to different parts of your site, and when someone wants to exchange links, the component would pick one of those at random for the user to publish on their site).
3) For the same reason (SEO), it would be nice to allow a title attribute to be defined for the link.

More advanced features could be added (eg. allowing a logo upload), but I think the above 3 are the most important.

If your requirements are for a simple reciprocal linking system and you don't mind the lack of SEO features (or you can tweak the component to improve them yourself), this component will do the job. For now I am sticking with a modified version of Bookmarks.

This program is no good for a reciprocal program. It has errors and after going to the forum, no help.
Stay away from it

Just tried this one in my J1.5 and it is working fine with compatibility mode turned on and even works with SEF url's

Great component has all thats needed for link exchange

It has what it takes to handle your links exchanges needs.

We love this component. It does it's own link verification and is easily configurable with the ability to add categories.

Many thanks for this excellent component.

Simple and very efective but developed on a high level of quality.

Easy to configure and looks very good.

Again, many thanks !!!

Sunny regards

Kurt Steiner

Quickly installed, and easily used!
even if you don't use the reciprocal linking system, it's a treat to have this for your site.
The are some minor issues that i've taken up on the forum (which looks to be well populated, and well responded to)

thanks!!