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This for a long time was my favorite extension ever. You can list and describe endless amounts of things with 2 different pictures for each item, and put them into specific categories on your site. You can put things into multiple categories. When you click on the item, you can have it expand to show another picture and more text. You can get the free ratings and reviews extension too. The most appealing part of this to me was the search capabilities it offers. (one downside is that when the user presses "search", it only shows 1 search box. But if you press "extended search", your whole advanced search system comes up). You can include endless amounts of dropdown boxes and radio boxes etc in your search. That's why I loved this component. Plus it never gave me any trouble. It always works perfectly. Thumbs up.

I have this on a site that requires people to rate different things I have listed with the Sobi2 component. I love Sobi2 and this reviews and ratings extension. It fits perfectly for what I am looking for. The little stars are so cute and look nice with my website. I have never had a problem with it. It is nice that it can be turned on and off in the back end. I looked through many other extensions and this is the best one (by far imo) for a rating system. I definitely recommend trying it out! Plus its free! :)

I downloaded this just the other day. I can't figure out what community ware to add to my site, and I really wanted to go with a non commercial one. This one is very interesting. It is not entirely straight-forward in its back end, but it does seem to have a lot of features (not sure what they are). My site is still in development mode, but I was not able to figure out how to use a few of the tabs in the back end. There also is an entry in the included plug-in section that says Mamblog, but it doesn't work. I did some research and saw that it has not been working in a few years. It does have a good profile layout with fields that you can change and choose. I, however, am looking for something with blog capabilities. Wish the Joomla core had this. There is the Profilebook free extension on the Community Builder site and I tried to download and install that and it didn't work. I asked on their forum if they could give me some help as to why not, and they told me that that "free" extension would only work in legacy mode, or I could purchase the one that works with J1.5. Anyway, if I decide to go with something free, this will be the extension for me. Along with another blog extension. But as of now I'm definitely leaning towards paying for a different community extension.