Forum Activity for @michael

Datastorage userdata in serverroot and mysql

Installation and Configuration

Do what @ultrajam said and store your backups on a different machine via the Backup module:

Docs: "Db and System Backup"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/1510/db-and-system-backup

Double storage of the same audio files

Using Jamroom

The original uploaded version could be a .wav or any of these file types:

aac
aif
flac
m4a
mp3
ogg
wav
wma

The only file type that will play on the web is .mp3 so an .mp3 file is created to be played on the web. There are options to just play a sample of the mp3 then only deliver the original to the purchaser of the song.

In your case it looks like the original is the same as the conversion so its not really needed in your case, but in cases like if the original was of a very high bit rate a lower version would be played on the web.

In short,
* The original is stored to reconvert off if anything goes wrong.
* The original is delivered if the item is sold or downloaded.
* The other version is a playable net version.

Changing how Facebook displays my site?

Using Jamroom

Facebook likes you to do things their way, they want you to put og:tags into your header to tell them what your site is about.

If you turn on the "ShareThis" module it will add those tags for a lot of your profile item detail pages where the page topic is set.

For other pages use the "Meta Tag Manager" to add the og:tags that you want and the description and image that you want. Right now because those dont exist for your site, facebook just grabs the first image it can find which looks to be one of your profiles images.

You can use the facebook debugger here:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing

To re-scrape your page and update the info that facebook will use, but its best to put the tags in their first so you can decide how it will be formatted.

Editing Activity Timeline

Design and Skin Customization

posts from the website, delete = gone.

michael adds a video. Michaels video add gets added to the timeline "Michael added a video". Curtis deleted "Michael added a video".

Video still exists, but timeline entry is gone.

Cookies

Design and Skin Customization

You can write that on your website if you want to. Anywhere you want to. Maybe make a page called "Terms of use" and outline what you expect from users of your site.

Editing Activity Timeline

Design and Skin Customization

The delete button will show up on the timeline of the profile where it was posted and you can delete it from there. But because the activity timeline on the HOME page is not on a profile, there is a chance that the wrong profile will be selected as the current profile so confusion could happen.

Thats why the buttons don't show.

You could wrap it in an {if jrUser_is_admin()} and add this link:

Just replace the id=222 with the item_id of the action inside the foreach loop of item_list.tpl of the jrAction module (or whichever location you've chosen to override it)

Probably look something like this:

Ning Endangered?

Off Topic

So back whenever that article was written 2 venture funded sites which had millions of dollars in funding:
* grouply $4.84M https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grouply#/entity
* Posterous $10.14M https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/posterous#/entity

Must have had a bunch of Ning users switch to them, then they both disappear.

What a waste of money on the investors side, and some pissed off users on the client side.

Ning Endangered?

Off Topic

This is hilarious,

On this page:
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Alive..._OR_ARE_THEY

they list Ning as on the "Endangered" list:
but the links they link to that say "....say they are going to offer migration tools." have both shut down!!

Ning users can't be feeling very secure right now.


updated by @michael: 12/11/16 09:22:49PM

Migration from Ning: a few questions

Ning To Jamroom

Jamroom is closer to the Twitter model than the Facebook one. If you like stuff that someone is posting and want to keep up to date with what they say, follow them. If they follow you back you can private message each other.

Stymied by Site Builder

Using Jamroom

The way things worked before site builder is:
* a skin designer builds a set of templates in a skin that the user of the skin then modifies.
* a skin designer links all those pages together in the menu of the skin.

When you turn on Site Builder its turning on a different way of doing things.

Site builder allows you to build your own menu and structured layouts for each page.

You can use the same links that exist from the skin in the menu, but you'll need to re-add them to the menu.

So if you want to use site builder, take note of the link locations that exist in the menu that you want to keep, and add them back into the menu. Then you can drag them around where you want them to go.

--
To add the activity timeline to a location on a site builder page:
* go to the page
* setup the page layout
* add a widget to a section on the page
* choose "Item List" and select the "Timeline" from the "List Module" dropdown.
* in the "Order By" section choose "_created" and "descending" so that you get the most recent at the top.
* click SAVE CHANGES
* click VIEW CHANGES

and your timeline will appear.