I used jPFChat for two Joomla sites I have, and in both of them it worked right out the box with everything I needed. Installation is easy, I still could not find something which would cause a bug. I wish all extensions were like that.

Excellent, of course. But I'm sure there is always space for improvement. I would mention the template system (installable templates? More bundled templates in the package?) and maybe the alignment of buttons after translation -- the pt-br translation I used caused the buttons to "jump" a line (plus, actually and in respect to all the efforts, it was not translated very well).

Thank you very much for this. I saw other forum extensions here, but I didn't even test them because there is a lot of users complaining about difficulties and problems. I don't know which features they have; but jPFChat seems to be the best for beginners and non-PHP programmers, and it has everything most people will ever need.

Great useful extension which helped me to bring an old Mambo site to the Joomla light, something that the default Import tool of Joomla installer could not do (no matter what I tried, this gave me errors, and for trying again I had to delete all files, extract the Joomla package again, start it all over again). THIS should be the officialy-recommended migration component.

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.