Fabricio Rocha
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byFabricio Rocha, March 7, 2011
For being perfect, this extension should offer the option to send the notification e-mail to the addresses of publishers and admins already registered in the site, so the required list of e-mails to which to send the notifications would be optional (or, maybe, it could be used also as an "opt out" list, which would include the e-mails of admins and publishers and allow the user to de-select one or more of them). I hope the developer take this as a suggestion.
byFabricio Rocha, March 6, 2011
But Kunena lacks support of user groups. After looking at its support forum, this seems to be the major complaint for some years now. The forum users are classified according to the quite-limited Joomla . I hope this choice can be re-considered someday.
Owner's reply
Hell Fabricio, thanks for your feedback. Yes, Kunena uses the built-in Joomla user groups for the best integration possible. We believe this is a strength in comparison with other solutions.
Also, Kunena supports free third-party extensions like noixACL, JXtended Control, and the ArtofUser component which offer fine-grained user control, including group features, in Kunena. These are great solutions and, in our opinion, are better than the options available in other forums.
Kunena 1.6.4 (to be released very shortly) will support Joomla 1.6 and that includes the native groups (which are more flexible). Kunena 2.0 will also have increased group support (due out in beta soon). So check back to see if either of those versions (or the above free group options) meet your needs.
But it was: installing went apparently fine, but then I tried to access the component and BOOOOOM. Got a blank page with an error message about "JFile missing" or something alike, but I could not even try to reproduce the error because the RokBridge item disappeared from the Components menu. I tried to reinstall, but there were a lot of installation leftovers everywhere which I had to manually erase via FTP (and apparently there's still rubbish somewhere, because reinstallation was not possible).
Through some years as a Joomla user, I have written very few reviews about extensions, and I don't like to submit bad reviews which could be due to a very particular issue. But this is not the case. This extension fails miserably and, worst of all, pollute your Joomla installation in an almost unrecoverable way. Multi thumbs down for it. Quite a deception, given the apparent quality and professional looks of RocketTheme's products.
byFabricio Rocha, August 17, 2009
It seems to be under development still, and shows some lack of user-friendness -- that's why I rate it like "good" only. Popup help (balloons) would help a lot, and it could also provide as an option the support on uploading a SQL backup (like those generated by CPanel), so you would not have to recreate an old database in your server (some providers allow you to have only one database, so...).
Maybe these features will come in a future release, and will be surely welcome. But if you are reading this for having a tip on how to update your whole site, don't be afraid -- go with mtwMigrator.