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CB Advanced Search
Nice, with a small annoyance left
bySebastyne, February 7, 2011
CB Advanced Search
I tried this one out about a year or two ago, and at the time I was impressed by the developers fast response to suggestions to improve the component. (Showing profile photos & linking them to the profile.) This time, I just want to write a review and give thumbs up. It works, it looks nice enough, and for 25 Euros, it's a good value. (Although for US dollar it doesn't look so good at the moment.) It is simply enough written that with very basic coding skills you can do some tweaking to it without turning gray, which is great.

Now the annoyance... The required 3 characters for keyword search. Why oh why! It's probably great for massive sites, but for a smaller site like mine it returns too specific results even if you search by a keyword such as "and"; it excludes everyone who hasn't fully filled their profiles. Keywords are great for topical searches, but when you're looking for people, it's probably best left open and just search with the values in the generic fields. Age, sex, location - that sort, you're not always interested if they used a specific word in their "about me".
Owner's reply

Hello Sebastyne,

We'll have an update next month with some minor improvements and the 3 char search will be fixed, thanks for purchase and honest review!

Admin

Akeeba Backup
Oh sweet extension!
bySebastyne, March 30, 2010
Akeeba Backup
I have a project where we're basically repeating the same custom project over and over, while the basic setup is highly customised Joomla installation, it requires only little tweaking to new customers. This extension has made it so much easier and faster to copy the basic installation to new servers, so that we can continue customising it from there on. Thank you!
Joom!Fish
Hard to learn
bySebastyne, March 18, 2009
Joom!Fish
I don't know why it is, but this is one of the hardest-to-manage components or script packages of any kind that I've ever tried out. It simply isn't intuitive, at least not to me, and the documentation is useless. However, once you learn that you have to publish your main language twice - first normally through Article manager, then the second time as a copy of itself as a translation, it will start to make sense and show it's value.

I love the fact you can translate EVERYTHING on Joom!Fish, even those bits that seem completely useless to translate, like usernames. (No, I still don't know why you would want to, but I love the fact the option is there.)

It took me about 3 days of active use to figure this extension out, and I normally allow 15 minutes... However, it was worth the effort.
Owner's reply

Dear Sebastyne,

Could you please get in touch with us e.g. using our forum. We are very interested in making Joom!Fish more intuitive to use. For this we need feedback of users.

Many thanks in advanced

Alex

JFusion
Latest version works!
bySebastyne, February 8, 2008
2 of 4 people found this review helpful
JFusion
I was so happy yesterday when I tried it, that I almost cried! I will still be anxiously waiting for the user sync. feature so possibly using Community Builder will become possible, but just being able to FINALLY combine SMF with Joomla is just wonderful. :)
Simple RSS Feed Reader
Simple - all we need.
bySebastyne, September 26, 2007
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Simple RSS Feed Reader
Simple and sweet, works first try and... well, what more could you possibly ask for? :)

The only problem I have now is where to find content that won't put my visitors to sleep... :p
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