Forum Activity for @jimmy

Login on JR website

Using Jamroom

Yep, as soon as I added the https everything returned back to normal. Thanks!

Login on JR website

Using Jamroom

I don't know if this is an issue or not, maybe I need to clear my cookies or something.

I use to be able to come to this site and I would be logged in. Now when I come to this site I'm not logged in and when I click the login link at the top of the site, it just auto logs me in... doesn't send me to a login page where I can enter my info. I'm a standard site login, not a connected login.

Just an FYI. Maybe something has changed I just thought it was weird that it wouldn't send me to a login page but rather is would just log me in when I clicked the login link at the top of the site.

updated by @jimmy: 05/10/14 09:07:24PM

Forum

Suggestions

I have a new site idea I want to start and I'm having a hard time deciding what software to go with. I currently run a forum using IPB, but I would love to use JR instead because of all the features.

Here is my problem. I really need to start the new site out as a forum. I have no users and I need to get people onto the site and talking. The quickest way I can see to do that would be a forum. Once there are people talking on the forum, having the features of JR would move the site to the next level where users focused on there profiles. In my experiences it's very hard to get users to setup a profile, but it's not hard to get them interacting on a forum: making post and making friends. Once they feel comfortable with the forum and have used the site they would be more inclined to populate their profile with information.

I have the same problem with IPB. Users don't want to content their profiles on my existing forum. Only the users who've posted many posts and started to get involved with the website started using their profiles.

I guess I'm asking for more of a feature set to the existing forum for JR. I don't have a list of features in front of me right now, but creating a full featured forum for Jamroom would help me in going with JR to start vs. setting up another IP Board website.

I like using IPB but there template system is horrible. I would much rather be using JR and be able to design the site with ease and tap into all the features JR provides. IPB is slated to release their new community suite in Q2. They're moving into a CMS style system where you don't even need to use the forum to build an IPS website.

I'm just having a hard time figuring out what to do. I'm a big JR supporter... I love the quality of the programming, updates, feature set, but on the same hand I need something I can setup right away and add threads to get people talking. Basically I need the feature set of IP Board forum in JR's forum.

I do realize that there are some bridges available to link to existing forum software and I could start out the site using my profile forum as the main page of the site. I really don't want to have a bridged forum.

It's my opinion that forums really build a community. I know when I come to this site one of the first things I hit is the forum. I'm sure new users who check out JR end up looking around the forum. Throwing some time into adding features to the forum would help me out more than you could imagine.

Thoughts?
updated by @jimmy: 05/10/14 05:09:11PM

Payment Question

Using Jamroom

Excellent. I'll take a look at that. I finally got a server and will be able to finally install JR.

Thanks again!

Payment Question

Using Jamroom


Yea, that it! Sell the service. The only thing I believe is missing is the ability to enter custom fields which must be filled as a condition before the order is placed.

For my example... the person has to fill out what they want in the html page. So, before they pay, they would be prompted to enter what they want. And I should be able to determine conditions of that information. Fillin a checkbox, enter text input, etc.

Payment Question

Using Jamroom

customer order > customer pay > create finished product > deliver > available to member on site as purchased product

Payment Question

Using Jamroom

Yea, but the service would have to have a return result after the purchase. I wouldn't be a closed ended service. They would order and pay and the delivery would be delivered after I finished the project.

I hope I'm explaining this correctly.

Payment Question

Using Jamroom

I have a business idea and I would like to us JR. I figured I would throw this question out there and see if I could do this without any modifications to the code or the need to create a module.

Here's what I need JR to be able to do:

I'm trying to sell a service which is custom to every customer. Let's say for this example that I'm creating HTML pages. There are three HTML pages the person can purchase.

A. 1 line page for $1
B. 2 line page for $2
C. 3 line page for $3

So, he orders the $3 page and enters the information he wants on the page and pays for the page to be created. When I'm done creating the $3 page, I upload that page or provide the page in text form for him to view. The product would have to be able to be created after the payment and accessible to him once I was finished creating the page.

Obviously, I could take the delivery off the site. Send him the html file outside of JR. But I would like it to be delivered through the JR interface.

Is something like this currently possible?
updated by @jimmy: 12/27/13 11:31:13PM

Best Code Editor

Off Topic

I've watched a few videos online. So far, so good!

Best Code Editor

Off Topic

Just installed phpstorm... I'm very much liking the software!