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Okay, I admit this is a pretty good forum, but its got a couple big holes in it that probably make it unusable for people, especially in North America. They could be simple problems for the owner to fix, but this forum is apparently not getting updated every year.

The problems? You are forced to get someone's full birth date, something most people don't want to give. Yes, it does default to today's date, but its confusing to users.

The thing for North American people is that the date MUST be YYYY-MM-DD and you can't change it even though there is a place to change it in the configuration.

What happens if you do change the date format? People are no longer able to save their profile or change their avatar. Yes, its true. It is major odd thing that date format controls functionality, but that's the way it is and it can be a nightmare.

The other main thing? No matter what width you set for the right margin, there is no word wrap so the first line goes on endlessly and unseen. When you save it the text pops back in, but what good is it if people can't see what they're typing?

The programmers only suggestion--use the default Joomla template. I don't think too many people will want to do that.

By the way, I checked as carefully as I could and it appears that the product owner has not been on the his own forum since November 2009. He used to answer questions there a lot, but he seems to be missing in action now.

This is a really good forum in many ways... but be careful before you fall in love with it.

This is a great adaptation of interactive galleries, and I was disappointed when I had to delete it immediately.

Why? The gallery has TWO different advertising links to two different sites. One is too many. It is hard enough branding my own site, and there is no need for me brand the work of others. If they want advertising they should pay for it, in my opinion.

I would happily pay for this gallery if the paid implementation was as quick and easy as the "free" ad version. But there is no paid Joomla version to get rid of the advertising links. You can purchase some of the underlying Flash elements, but implementation is not quick or easy.

Lots of really good Joomla extensions like this one end up deleted because of this advertising problem. If developers want to offer free extensions they should be really free, not simply gimmicks to send traffic to their own sites.

These folks either need to kill the advertising links or offer a version without any ads, in my view.