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During couple of months of development, I was trying to make everything to work OK perfectly, than I've finally decided not to use this component on our website, although I paid for it.

Pros:
- Option to have draggable modules on your website

Cons:
- Works laggy with some browsers, or doesn't work at all
- Can be fully usable only as component: You need to create menu item in order to use it.
- Cannot simply use it in (side column) module position. If users turn off all modules it still occupies module space.
- Buggy with some specific other component modules.
- Repositioned modules sometimes changes specified module width.
- If visitor rearrange modules, than we add new module, user doesn't see it until reset button is pressed.
- Pretty expensive: 99$ for not so usable thing
- Cumbersome setup. For every draggable module you need to create duplicate module in component admin panel. Why cant just use already listed modules?
- Adds ton of scripting which significantly adds to site loading times.

Conclusion:
Final straw for my decision not to use it was that our users was reporting slow loading times. Once when I removed this component, site was loading fast again.

Of course, this extension is just a base for maintaining other NoNumber extensions, which are by themselves also a must have.

It works. It's free. Its updated frequently.
I'm using it on my all new Joomla sites, because it provides quick and hassle free access to other NoNumber extensions.

At 1st I was using only few of their other extensions.
After I tried it in my Joomla sandbox, I downloaded and installed all available components, and after getting familiar with them, now I'm using em regularly.

Because all of that: components, plugins, forum and support is provided freely by author, I've decided to purchase his master license without, much hesitation.

Peter keep on a goo.., no, EXCELLENT work ;)
Many other Joomla component developers could learn from your dedication.

If you have luck that JomSocial works OK with your system than it could be of use for you. But in case of any real issues you can forget about proper support and you are on your own. Having experienced Joomla guru or genius programmer by your hand is only thing which can help you.

Why? They just happily announced that they will not provide support over forums any more. They will use ticket support instead. Great. They even removed links from their website.

Usually this tactic is used when someone wants to hide problems from public. And their forums are full of people with problems.

When using support tickets you may end by fiddling your thumbs by days without actual answer. At least that happened in my case.
They also raised component price and lowered support time span.
Every new upgrade brings new issues because it's not properly tested.

For component of such complexity they should have more people available for support. If they advertise other developers addons on their website, they should test it first and not let their customers to serve as Guinea pigs.

Pros:
- nice FaceBook a like community system, packed with basic features.

Cons:
- for any extra advanced feature you need to purchase other commercial products, some of them may clash or create new issues with your overall system
(good luck with configuration)
- clashes with many other non related components or templates.
- support is slow or non existent
- they want to get rid of their forum

Conclusion: If I knew before how much of issues will I have with JomSocial I would never purchased it. But now it's too late. Money wasted, time wasted, nerves wasted.

Pros:
- modular, scalable, extendable, configurable, multilanguage
- per season tariffs
- front-end admin, multi user level
- fast and professional support
- frequent updates
- they listen customer base and often implement stuff in future releases

Cons:
- high learning curve. If you need to fully unlock Jomres potential, prepare yourself for a lot of learning. Good thing is that their support quality goes in Pros section :)
- image gallery could (and must) be better. Current system is not in match with other Jomres features.
- pricey customization service. If you need customization beyond initially available features, and above own coding skills, prepare yourself for (much) higher than usual programing costs.

Conclusion: Jomres isn't for "average Joe" website. But if you invest some time and efforts and properly master Jomres, you'll be rewarded with booking system which is light year ahead of other components listed here. It almost looks like framework for building customized booking systems.

Before purchase I tested other accordion menus from this category. Some of them was conflicting with Mootools. This menu have option to Remove Mootools Conflict which solved issues I've had.
1 hr after purchase, it was installed and tweaked to match my design.
Works with Joomfish as well.
Thumbs up :)