daviator
I'm not sure what they were thinking but they really messed it up. They removed many of the best and useful features of the older version and simply broke many others.
It appears to me as if the rewrite was just and attempt to make it easier to sell commercial plugins. Otherwise, I have no idea why they wrecked such a beautiful offering.
Hey there.. The bug you have reported has never occurred earlier.. Are you using Joomla 1.6 or SOBI pro by any chance ? The plugin is known to work well on SOBI2 & Joomla 1.5 . As for the forums , they are community based & we only can try to answer posts there when we can.. You do have an option of asking for commercial support via email..
On a side note, we have a revamped version with more features coming soon..
What you really get are extensions that don't function as promised (GroupJive AutoJoin doesn't work) and quicker responses from the developers to tell you how wrong YOU are. That is, until you prove that their software has bugs and then they go silent. (Fresh install of latest Joomla 1.5 and CB 1.4, CB still reports a user database problem).
Stick with the free part of Community Builder and you'll be OK. Most of what the paid extensions do can be found elsewhere for free.
Readers here (and the JED team) can easily review this review and compare it to the facts in daviator's threads mentioned in his review (urls below) to make their own opinion on statements in this review:
In particular it is visible on the threads that:
1) Support has been provided quickly, diligently, and timely,
2) a quick bug fixing solution has been provided in the first thread to the bug found by davidator on this new auto-join feature of GroupJive 2.3.
3) the report of database problem given by CB is correct, there is an error in daviator's database collation being different of joomla's connection collation.
4) The review items posted are not reviewing CB itself.
5) We do take support as well as mutual respect very seriously.
Related threads:
http://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/154-advanced-members-support/162925-2518-cannot-figure-out-auto-join
http://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/154-advanced-members-support/163045-error-when-checking-user-user-database
http://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/154-advanced-members-support/163664-font-problem
http://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/154-advanced-members-support/163240-help-with-minor-but-annoying-spacing-issue
All our Professional and Advanced forums are readable for everyone - so people can see the level of support for Advanced and Professional members by themselves:
http://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/index/152-priority-support-for-advancedprofessional-members
I had all but abandoned CB for several reasons. One being the ugly and hard to modify profile menu. This extension offers far better looking alternatives! Besides, it's simple and easy to install, use and understand.
Thank you!
As mentioned, it does not come with a Login/Register component so you are stuck with the stock (limited) Joomla login. I tried using the CB Login for Registration but could not find a way to get the CB and ODude fields to "talk" to each other. I emailed the dev but have not heard back.
Also, documentation is literally non-existent and there isn't even a user-to-user forum, even when you pay for the added extensions. Heck, I'd be willing to write the docs if I could get some answers.
The software does not play well with templates not specifically made for or edited for JomSocial. I uploaded an Artisteer-created template and found that much of the alignment was off(buttons overlapping text boxes, text cut off, etc.)
BTW, the template worked beautifully with Community Builder.
The next thing I tried was adding photos. JomSocial said I uploaded 3 and even showed the thumbnail of the first one but that picture would not open saying no photos had been uploaded. The second picture would not open (or at least I gave up after 5 minutes of watching the opening gif spin.)
Also, for $100 U.S., why do I have to put up with a link back to their site from mine?
Could these problems all be worked out? No doubt. But for $100 (the cheapest version) I expected it to work a lot more smoothly. I bought this extension to save time, not to spend more of it to make it work like I want.
I can create menu items fine for other items.
So I tried to go on their forum and post my issued but each time I tried to log into their forum it looped me back around to their home page with no option to simply log in. This was not a good sign.
Hi daviator,
I'm sorry you had a sub-par experience with Ninjaboard.
We work very hard to provide top notch support for free, and respond to every issue within 24hrs, and often within just minutes of issues being posted on our forums.
Had you persevered and managed to post on our forums, we would have been happy to help.
I'm sorry you had trouble logging in. Thousands of users log into our website every day, so I'm not sure why your experience was different, but we do recognise that our website is in need of an overhaul and have been working hard on a redesign.
Keep in mind we also have a contact form, which you could have used if the forum login failed.
Also, if all else fails, contact me directly [mark at ninjaforge dot com], and I will see to it that you get the support that you need.
Thanks for the feedback.
- Mark
1) Adding new menu items casued my site to go blank. (changing to a different menu system solved the problem)
2) Added menu items order could not be changed. I added a new menu item and no matter what order it was in the menu manager it still showed up last.
3)If I click on a menu with sub menus the menus on the resulting page do not behave correctly.
I.e. on the home page the menus have the down arrows and fade in and out as designed but once the menu with subs has been clicked the resulting menus have no down arrows and the fade disappears. Also, the menus are very twitchy and cannot easily be clicked.
This occurs in IE8. The menus work fine Firefox 3.5.7 but still loses the fade and arrows feature once a sub-menu has been clicked.