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Very nice and complete article rotator.
Simple to use. Great options/params.
I'm using it on 2 sites and it really adds class!

Such a simple little plugin but added a lot of class to my community site. My template showed messages at the top of the page, and while obvious to me, it was amazing how many users didn't know what was happening on the page because they didn't know to watch the message area up top. This solved that issue nicely.


Thanks for the great little plugin!

Works great. Just what I was looking for!

Thanks for creating and sharing this! Great price, too :)

Would be cool if there was some way to add "must check the box to comply with our TOS to continue".

Install and set up went smoothly, and it even seems to display ok (in sobi Details view).

But when I click a star to vote I get "unknown error" and only the first 2 stars can be clicked. I tried troubleshooting for javascript errors (disabling plugins, etc), but can't solve this. Firebug shows no related errors.

I'm really bummed because this ext looks very nice and seems like the perfect solution for me... I was even about to donate :(

Author's website (forum) seems to be down (404 error) so not sure what to do.

thanks

I installed and used this for awhile. I liked it.

The ajax system that allowed latest comment to instantly appear (rather than on page refresh) broke, and that made it not near as cool.

Firebug gave me some clues... threw an error that was reported by another commenter below... but after an hour of searching for a fix I gave up.

In looking for an alternative, I came across JComments. Also installed their sobi2 plugin. Wow - now that's quite a component! Does a ton more stuff! I'm sort of glad now that this plugin broke on me.

Great!
Nice and simple. Customizable.
Tried the other ones and they basically just check for IE6 or not. Whereas this one checks if IE and, if yes, lets you display a custom msg.

One suggestion, the "message for non-IE users" won't accept a blank. That is, if a firefox user visits my site, I don't want to display anything. If you leave it blank it repopulates "thank you for not use IE". For now I just put a . (period) there.

Thanks for the cool extension!

Very, very nice. Simple to set up. Clean appearance. Great jomsocial integration.

I only like to do stuff once, so I spent over an hour comparing jbola, comet, universal-ajax-chat, and this one. Jbola and comet are about $50 (and comet seems better). Univ-ajax-chat is $20, and I was about to buy but thought I'd try FreiChat first because it's free.

There were 3 issues (2 with appearance and 1 with functionality) that I had to fix but then this thing is freaking awesome, simple, beautiful, and FREE.

First fix was I was getting horizontal scrollbars in the chat box because the text was just a few pixels to wide. The second issue was the 'whos online' box was getting a vertical scrollbar and cutting off the view a bit. Both of these probably a result of my joomla template's css interfering but with just a little widening of the chat box width and inc. the who's online container that was easily fixed (I think they were both in freichat.css).

The third issue was the new messages weren't instantly scrolling up/appearing (open two users in two browsers and talk to yourself until the box fills up to see what I mean). I searched the freichat forum and found a reference to this 'not autoscrolling' problem mentioned (with a fix) in some obscure thread (so not everyone must have this issue?). It said to add a piece of code to 3 places in mod_freichat.php, but I just added it in one place. (actually, it was already there but //commented out so I just removed the // to activate the code.



Autoscroll issue fixed!

This thing is lightweight, fast, and looks sharp. Nice job guys!

Replaces anything in your content and easy to use.

One enhancement maybe...
I wish there was a way to set up an item, then let the front-end user determine the replacement text, such as via a small form module. e.g. "Give this artilce a name", then their input replaces the current "articlename".

Nice, simple, lightweight.
Ultimately I had to uninstall because won't work in IE (IE's the dreaded html parsing error).
(sidenote: 'compatibility mode' in IE8 sometimes solves this but not in this case)
(sidenote2: IE can suck it!)

Also, I share dkartuzinski's thought that some simple directions (either during install or in the plugin manager) would be nice.

Otherwise, a nice little plugin :)