Notes vs Private Notes vs messages...??
Installation and Configuration
Strumelia:This is a generalization, but I think a whole bunch of Ning networks are centered around the enriched interactions BETWEEN members rather than the members all being followers of the main site entity or owner.
That's exactly how Jamroom functions. For example - you have "followed me" and I have followed you back - that does not keep you from following any other user on the system, or posting an activity update to them, etc.
Quote: That basic difference means that there are many features with interactive touches that may indeed be non-essential on a site that is mostly giving out information, media, and updates to its members, ...but those same details may in fact be really needed on a site where MOST activity involves members who are used to interacting/sharing actively between each other in a highly social manner.
I think most of us Ning-ites realize that not 'everything' can or will be duplicated in the out-of-the-box JR package. But unless the basic layout/organization and function feels very familiar as soon as the modules and core and skin are installed, then inevitably you'll be getting a whole lot of "But where is the...? and where is the...?" every time a ning person comes poking around looking for a new home. Indeed, I would totally understand if you want to just wash your hands of the lot of us at some point! =8-*
I think most of us Ning-ites realize that not 'everything' can or will be duplicated in the out-of-the-box JR package. But unless the basic layout/organization and function feels very familiar as soon as the modules and core and skin are installed, then inevitably you'll be getting a whole lot of "But where is the...? and where is the...?" every time a ning person comes poking around looking for a new home. Indeed, I would totally understand if you want to just wash your hands of the lot of us at some point! =8-*
I think there is still a lot of misunderstanding on what Jamroom does, how it functions, and what it is designed for. Jamroom pretty much does everything that Ning does, it just does it in a different way sometime.
For example, our core users (over 11+ years) have never wanted WYSIWYG editors all over the place (mainly because from a style perspective giving your users the ability to make 50pt BOLD RED text tends to NOT look good), so to meet those needs we are going to have to modify every where that textareas are present - it's not something we can do in an hour.
Jamroom has been designed to be more like a "super" twitter - for example, when I am going to post something in Twitter I don't get a WYSIWYG editor. As I am typing I will see "content" be linked in (i.e. if I type a profile name, it will popup) - JR does this as well. With the editor turned on though, you are NOT going to get this (since we can't run custom JS INSIDE the editor), so some of the "interaction" may seem missing, when it's really not.
What I'm getting at is that Jamroom has a TON of "interactive" touches, but to a Ning user if it is NOT in the WYSIWYG editor, then it doesn't exist - that's something we are trying to work around and find a way to expose many of these features you feel are missing from Jamroom.
At it's heart I can say for sure that Jamroom is way more flexible and powerful than anything I've seen yet on Ning, but it may not do it the same as Ning. That leads you (and other Ning users) to say Jamroom doesn't support it, and we don't "get" how social works, etc.
Not sure if that helps, but I just continue to see mis-information about what Jamroom does and want to be sure you understand what Jamroom is (and is not as well).
Thanks!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM
