I tried this earlier in the year and thought that it was quite good but had questions. I could not register on the support web site as I never got the confirmation e-mail. I tried several times and with different e-mail addresses as it wouldn't let me re-use the same one as it said it was already in use! All resulted in no confirmation e-mail (yes, I did check my junk mail folders).

There was no visible contact address outside of the forum to sort this out. I even asked on Joomla! forums but nobody could (or was prepared to) help get me into the forums. I gave up.

Re-visiting this today (Dec 2009), I see that it's now up to version 2.1 so I thought that I might give it a try and see if the registration issues have been resolved. Sadly, it's even worse with the web site totally inaccessible and reporting:

"509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later."

How on earth does RSGallery2 get a POPULAR rating on Joomla! when it's so inaccessible? I think Joomla.org should exercise a bit of quality control here and only permit links to extensions which are a) available with valid links and working web sites, b) have demos available, and c) have some kind of basic support that is actually usable.

Sorry to be so negative but promoting an inactive extension just wastes my time and those of others too.

Seems like a great gallery component, but sorry...

Been trying for 5-days straight and can't even install the damn gallery, on both my 1.5.9 and 1.5.15 sites.

Keep getting the error "Error! Could not find a Joomla! XML setup file in the package." whereas other galleries/components install just fine.

Asked in the forums no reply. Next thing you know, the site is now out of bandwidth. :(

I have been using this extension for a long time. Still do, even on new sites. Has its quirks, like anything else, but is really a rock-solid extension.

What has me concerned is that their site has been down for an extremely long time, and does not show any signs of that changing. Has active development of this product ceased? Will we ever see the site again? If we cannot get answers to these questions, it may be time to find something else.

When I was using Community Builder I would give this an excellent rating. If you use Community Builder, RSGallery2 provides a load of great features but keeping it simple. I love a photo gallery that includes a searchbot and downloading photos was easy as well as allowing users in my site to create there own albums.
Now that I moved to JomSocial (which I prefer) RSGallery is also out as its focus is CB users. I hope one day it will support us JomSocial users if we don't already have a replacement.

I enjoy this composant, but there is a lot of bugs to fix. The last one I fixed by myself was a problem with backslashes generated by ' caracters in galery description and pictures descriptions.

Then please note this, in the template semantic, in html/gallery.php there is a lak of stipslashes functions.

Also, Y tried to register an account on the home website, and it seems that I can't receive the account activation mail...then I can't give the solution for the backslashes problem while there is already 2 users claiming for a solution in the support forum.

There are javascript errors and fails to show the lightbox in IE. Apart from that, excellent extension.

From what I've found, this is the best available gallery system for Joomla 1.0.15. That being said.......

Be for-warned - I just spent the last 2 hours deleting spam from the commenting system. I looked at my backend configuration and it was setup so that commenting was available for registered users but public commenting was set off. It didn't matter because the public was still able to add comments. By the time I came across the spam entries, I had about 5000 that needed to be deleted. This is a SERIOUS flaw.

I have tried and tried and tried many Photo Galleries and I have finally found one I can use! It lets me have categories, it lets me have a slideshow, it let's me have descriptions, it has lightbox effect, it has batch uploading, it has many features I haven't even used yet. The only thing it lacks is variations on the front end layout. There are three layout templates you can download but I would love to see more options!

Pretty good. Managed to get galleries I was happy with quickly. My only comment is that it is a shame that I can't get more sophisticated sub gallery structures. However I am happy with this and it will be my gallery component for the forseeable future on our online magazine. I hope the developers find time to continue working on this to make it everything it can be. I am particularly pleased with the integrated commenting facility with this gallery.

I am a complete novice with Joomla and I had this extension downloaded, uploaded, installed, a gallery created, my images zipped up, batch uploaded, named, and published in less than 10 minutes. I can't believe it. Merry Christmas early!

The only request I would have is the ability to upload multiple files without having to zip them up, but that is such a minor thing. Oh, one other thing would be to make the hit counter unique with the use of a cookie like the voting is.

Thank you RSGallery2 I love you.The very first joomla Gallery component to install , Configure , and work with out me haveing to search the manuals , tutorials, help blogs or tearing what little hair i have left out.
Thanks Again Great Job

This is GREAT extension.

Set up in minutes, uploaded images in seconds, integrated immediately.

There is only some shadow in feature activation ( for example in front end it says I can upload images as user, but I cannot find HOW I can Upload !)

If you are looking for a simple, yet full featured gallery, Here you are! download this extension.

This component is complete. And rough...
Many features are available. The API, though not tested, seems promising.
I have been deploying RSGallery2 for about a year now.
Version 2.0.0 beta 1 works alright. And can be coupled with Joom!Fish 2.0 RC, provided xml declaration files are correctly formatted and named...

The French translation provided is not UTF-8 encoded.

As a summary RSGallery2 is a good component.

JoomFish declaration XML files and French translation files are available at...

A fantastic component. Solid, fast, flexible, great admin features. The true beauty of this component is discovered when you start to play with the templates and tweak them to create a completely original front end look and feel. Developers are consistently moving forward, adding features, fixing bugs. I have used RSgallery2 on many sites.

But with a few minor changes (changing alias to id in the code to eliminate errors), this is working exactly how I hoped it would. Great little component!

I was searching for a photo gallery, and after some tests I have choose to use RSGalllery, it looked like the component I really needed.

After an intensive use of this component I decided I wont use it anymore. There are many bugs, configuration options not working, frontend management is weak,....

Th worst of this compoenent its not having support at all, I mean you go to support forum and you can see nobody has answers!

It is a great module, that will allow you to have comments and voting on its default template. however other templates do not support commenting and voting...

I've tried literally dozens of gallery sites, both internal and external to joomla, and this is by far and away the easiest to use. It works straight out of the box, and within 20 minutes I had 4 galleries uploaded onto my site.

I would highly recommend this to anyone looking to display more than a few pictures in joomla.

It looks like there is constant work being done as well, which is always reassuring! Thank you for such a fantastic product!

I tried every free component for displaying pictures that supports 1.5 and am blown away by how easy and versatile this component is. THANK YOU!

Finally! Something that does exactly what I need and actually works!! I tried four other image gallery products before I finally tried this one and it blows the others out of the water. It worked immediately and I haven't had a single problem. It looks great and is very funtional. I love it.