In the midst of launching a new site, we encountered several show stoppers with the forum we had chosen.

We switched to Agora and not only did it solve our business problem - it gave us a number of ADDED benefits.

The part I like most about this is the granularity and security of the user controls.

Don't even bother with other forums - use Agora!

I found this to be a great extension. I have had to hack the built in component or buy an extended component to get the features this presents.

Killer portions that sold me:
1) EASY to install, had plenty of direction at install time to keep me from messing up
2) Ability on a whim to require or ask as an option several fields
3) Ability to add text to the SUBMIT button without coding
4) Check box - TOP Killer part.

Shortcomings (#1 - USA ONLY BTW..)

1) The word DUTY is slightly misleading, for American English speakers - but to be fair, very easy to figure out
2) Lack of optional fields I can input, for instance, if I wanted to ask in a field for something that isn't there, I don't have a easy way change it - Overall not a big deal, just putting down as a documentation point.

Overall I give it an A+ even with the VERY MINOR shortcomings, this should be put into every Joomla instance by default.

Great work. Thank you!
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