Forum Activity for @strumelia

CometChat - How To Guide

Using Jamroom

I have had pretty good results from the CC support people. They are located in India so I have to update my ticket info and then see what/how they've responded after I get up in the morning...but they do work every day at the issue. And on stubborn issues I've found they'll stick with me for a long time if needed, to find the cause and solution.
I don't feel they are intentionally creating insufficient docs- my guess is that the language thing might be at least one factor.

Jamroom 5.3 is now out of beta!

Announcements

Just popping in to say I updated the Core and all modules today, and most everything went really smoothly- it's done and I'm so happy and relieved!
Thanks a million to you JR developers for putting in so much energy and expertise.
And thanks too to the Beta testors who helped hunt down any bugs before the Beta got released- I sure appreciate it!
I'm seeing lots of nice little changes and fixes already, and I bet I'll be finding more in the days to come. Love the new Recycle bin, and I also love that our Admin forum posts are now showing up in the main page activity feed (yay!!), to name just the first two things that jumped out at me right away.


updated by @strumelia: 02/18/16 08:51:00AM

Dating Site Template

Design and Skin Customization

Sounds like they all deserve each other...a match made in Heaven! ;D

Dating Site Template

Design and Skin Customization

LOL

As with most dating sites, the ratio of male Jamrooms is higher than female Jamrooms. I suspect this is due to the enthusiasm of heavy metal head bangers. I go to contra dances where the opposite is sometimes happens...and the women wind up dancing with each other. Maybe the guys are all staying home with their joy sticks...
Perhaps a site attempting to connect rock band jamrooms with dancer jamrooms? Could they find happiness together?

Problems with the Search Function

Genosis

I don't seem to have that "rebuild search index" tool in my Search module...is that because I haven't updated to the new JR version yet?

Is rebuilding the index something that is good to do once a year or so like housekeeping? Or is it not a good idea to do it unless needed?

CometChat - How To Guide

Using Jamroom

I think with the premium version you might get more support? (you'd think so, with the difference between $49 and $250... !)

CometChat - How To Guide

Using Jamroom

It's great of you to post this. It'll be helpful to many.

Just curious- Can you tell me what the difference is between your previous custom version of CC and the $49 JR CC module basic version? What did you decide to give up when going to the cheaper basic version? (I have a premium type version for almost a year now)

Explaining the Sign up form, a two-way problem, and a possible two-in-one solution

Using Jamroom


I'm just not getting this, I'm confused. As admin, I SEE each member's submitted profile info BEFORE they are approved by me- I see all the profile info, location, gender, and the answers to my various signup questions (tell us your interest in mountain dulcimers, name a favorite song, name the key most dulcimers are played in, tell us why you want to join, what sweet food do bees make?...). This is almost always all I need to weed out spammers.
The only other thing I do is check the IP address in my new member pending notification against their claimed location, which takes about 10 seconds on an IP checker site I have bookmarked. That reveals anyone claiming to be in North Carolina when they are really located in Sri Lanka or something.
Between my signup questions and the IP check, the process for examining and approving a pending member takes me about 30 seconds, and it's 99.9% foolproof for me. The signup questions discourage almost all spammers from even bothering to make the attempt- they do NOT want to go googling to answer signup questions, nor try to explain why they are interested in dulcimers...lol.

Am I totally missing the point that you guys are talking about? How is the Ning signup process different?- it seems pretty much the same as JR to me. (The only thing I'd put on my wishlist is to have the user's signup IP address preserved in the user data .csv file we can download periodically- as it is now we only see it in the pending member notification email.)

Dashboard - Pending Users - Show more than 10 pending Users

Design and Skin Customization

You're so welcome.

Dashboard - Pending Users - Show more than 10 pending Users

Design and Skin Customization


Hmmm...maybe not as obvious as you think.
You don't want to say "small caps"- caps is capital letters, small is lower case letters.
So "friday" is all lower case/small....no caps at all.

If you use that as a question, then when you are in the form designer you will be given a choice to include several acceptable answers. In that instance you would want to allow "friday", "Friday", and "FRIDAY"....all three should be accepted as correct answers.

Try to pick questions that don't have lots of possible answers. You wouldn't want a question like "Name a morning meal"...folks would answer all kinds of things, like "breakfast", "eggs", "pancakes", "oatmeal", "toast"... Instead, you might ask "What's the main ingredient to make an omelette?...and acceptable answers would be "egg","Egg", "eggs" or "Eggs".

When adding signup questions designed to frustrate spammers, you don't want to go overboard and make it TOO hard to join. Remember, their answers don't have to be correct!- but having several wrong answers will raise your suspicion and enable you to better judge whether they are legit. It's good to have a couple questions that might be easy for people with a genuine interest in your site subject, but that require a spammer to go look up the answer on google....they don't like to bother.
If your site is about orchids, ask a simple orchid question that might be hard for non-orchid lovers to answer.
In my own example, you will see that I have many questions in place...once in a while I get a complaint about all the questions..but not often. And I only get about one spammer every three months or so actually try to join, and because of the answers they give, they are easy to spot before approval. I find my best question is "Describe your interest in music or dulcimers"- with a longer answer allowed. Real users love to talk about their interests...spammers dont want to say more than one or two words, and they don't always make sense.
updated by @strumelia: 02/13/16 03:16:57PM