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Chocolate and Concrete - I got a good laugh from that one!

IMO the name should be changed. I know, that's a big one... but moving away from "Jamroom" which probably tells people "band site" and comes up when people search for it online. But that's for you guys to decide. First impressions are everything and like they say, the name says it all.

One of the biggest problems I see, which doesn't seem to apply to WP, is PHP. I keep reading more and more people online bashing PHP. That moves people into Python, NodeJS, etc. for development. So, those power users are using other languages and promoting them. WP is obviously huge and there are a million templates for the script online on sites like themeforest. I personally like PHP.

Maybe it might be good to really get a couple banging templates created for JR. What you have is nice, but not the "holy cow" impact type of templates you can find for other scripts. Most novice people buy / get involved on looks alone and learn about the features after the fact.
updated by @jimmy: 01/28/15 01:26:57PM

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I'm been trying to get up to speed with JR5 from JR4 and I have to say a lot of things have changed.

Datastores - great idea.

Modules - man, you really can create anything.

This new version is probably one of the best CMSs I've seen. Brian - well thought out. You seem to do the work of a team of 10 developers. I'm really surprised more people aren't using Jamroom. My guess is that people still think it's "just for bands" (there's a lot of history there).
updated by @jimmy: 03/08/15 08:12:26AM

VIP Unlimited Membership

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Thanks for the info. I'll be in touch.

VIP Unlimited Membership

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Can there be an option to pay for this yearly?
updated by @jimmy: 02/23/15 05:03:58PM

Forum Pagination

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Having pagination will allow someone who wants to run ads on the forum pages - below the first post on every forum page - to do that. It can be quite profitable if the thread has multiple pages.

Locking Videos / Live Videos

Jamroom Developers


Thanks for the info. Maybe #1 would be something you'd want to add to the modules in the future? I'm going down the list projects I need to do and I know that's a requirement of one of them. That's the reason I asked.

Locking Videos / Live Videos

Jamroom Developers



No, I wouldn't want to lock the whole profile, just selected videos and content. Let's say I was starting a JR site for businesses. The business would have a power user account with multiple accounts under that power user account. So, the business would want everyone to see their profile, but would also want to use the site to send non-public information to the sub-accounts or anyone else for that matter. If the business was legal in nature, maybe the user would want to send a draft legal doc for other members to review? Maybe a movie company was screening trailers for selected individuals?

Maybe it might be something you guys want to consider adding? Being able to control who has access to the content on a user by user basis might be a valuable feature versus a more broad sweeping method - profile privacy or restricting to a certain quota.
updated by @jimmy: 01/17/15 02:04:11PM

Locking Videos / Live Videos

Jamroom Developers

Two questions about videos.

1. Is there an ability to password protect videos. An example would be if a user uploaded a video and password protected it only allowing those with the password to view the video? Let's say a VP of a company wanted to upload a video on the current state of the company which was for internal use only. Is there a way to allow the video to only be viewed by members of the company with a password to the video?

2. Live Videos / Streaming - are there any plans to create a module for Live Video? So, someone could create a site like twitch.tv?

Thanks!
updated by @jimmy: 02/21/15 08:43:50AM

Proxima Question

Proxima


Let me get back to you on that one. Maybe I'll whip something up this weekend.

Proxima Question

Proxima

Excellent, perfect package. Look forward to trying it out.

Maybe putting up a simple usage chart would help explain it to others who are still trying to wrap their head around JR + Proxima and are too afraid to ask on the forum. Maybe even a master usage chart for all of your projects -> how they are different, how they work together, and it which situations you would use each one.