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To keep using JR or not?

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This is good feedback - thanks for that. I'd love to hear what you feel makes JR hard to customize or get setup as you want - ideally most things should be just "enable it and set it up in your quotas".

I do know that customizing the JR skin can be a little work, but we kind of knew that when we decided to try and make 100% of JR templated.


Yeah this is very true - and was a very big driving factor in the JR5 redesign. We need a way to go beyond the "platform for a social network", and while a lot of JR5 modules are still geared in that direction (since a lot of our customer base is still private social networking) with our other projects like Proxima and Genosis you can see that JR can be used for more than just a social network setup.

Thanks!

Listening to/Watching Now blocks

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That's basically what it already does - the problem isn't recording it or checking that the browser has already played a track - it's distinguishing between a "scan" and a "play". Most browsers (besides IE) send what's know as a "range" header that tells the server that it only wants part of the data - not the whole file. IE doesn't send that, so to JR it looks like IE pressed "play" on the player. There's possibly some things that can be done with jPlayer events, but it gets complicated quickly, can be error prone and ends up making it so audio streams have to go through jplayer in order to be counted, which we don't want (as it restricts the ability to build 3rd party players).
updated by @brian: 10/14/14 10:01:13AM

Listening to/Watching Now blocks

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I've tested this out now on IE11 and unfortunately I'm not seeing any way to detect that the first scan is just an exploratory scan - all the incoming headers are identical to when there is an actual "play". So for now IE11 users are going to increment the play key on any page they view a player.

I'm looking into workarounds, but it needs to be secure, so am not sure at this point.

Thanks!

Player Streaming Error

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Then the last place to check is in you Quota config, make sure you have enabled Conversions for ALL your quotas.

An just to repeat - if this was previously working for you, but just stopped, you need to find out what changes were put on your server by your hosting provider.

Error Resource Limit Reached Frequently on Arvixe

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I'm not sure what type of help we can offer in regards to this, but you can check your System Check section and see if you are being limited on Apache processes.

Regardless I would recommend opening a ticket with Arvixe to get it fixed up.

Hope this helps!

Further integration suggestions

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None of the JR4 stuff was "Seamless" out of the box - as far as I remember you had to update your ranking list calls just like you do here (although to be honest at that time the Seamless module was created by Paul at motagator, so I didn't really pay much attention to how it was used).

But I think I hear you here - basically you would like to see an easier way to "combine" multiple module items into a single listing - so that's good feedback

Thanks!

form designer field permissions

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Got it - so eventually there could he hundreds. I'm just not sure that the idea of having each of these users be an ADMIN just to not have to deal with adding them to the profile (I mean I know what you've done it that way) is the best thing to do - I'm concerned from a security stand point that it could expose areas of your systems to those users that you don't want them to access. If that's not a big deal, then it's probably no worries.

I think the right way to handle this would be to make sure the user's are linked to each of the profiles they have access to so everything internally is handled "properly" - how are the users from the property maintenance company created in the system?

Thanks!

To keep using JR or not?

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If you don't like what you see with JR5, there's no reason you have to stop using JR4. There are also lots of other CMS's out there as well that might be more in line with what you're looking for.

At this time we don't have an affiliate module, but the User Polls module can double as sort of a "Battle" module if you need something like that.

All the Jamroom 4 licenses and everything are still available online at the archive site:

http://archive.jamroom.net/

Hope this helps!

Player Streaming Error

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That's the server check - that is not the right area. In your admin menu on the back end there should be a "servers" section where you can actually go in and check if the server is working. The server check just shows you that the SOFTWARE is installed (and you're actually out of date too - the last version of JR4 was 4.3.1).

Player Streaming Error

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I don't have a copy of the JR4 Cluster Server installed, but you should see a "servers" tab in your admin control panel. Inside you should be able to check the connectivity and check out the server health.