Forum Activity for @jimmy

Former Ning CEO Speaks...

Installation and Configuration

I've never used Ning. The only thing I have to say about Ning is this:

If Marc Andreessen, whom I follow on Twitter, never even mentions Ning on his Twitter feed my conclusion is that ship has sailed. He talks about anything and everything on Twitter and in the years that I've been following him I haven't ever heard a word about Ning.

His words can sway an entire company or industry, for him to not mention a product that he's sits as Chairman, is quite unusual. My guess is that he probably collects a paycheck but really wants nothing to do with the product - which speaks volumes to me.

New Stuff Forum

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I think people just gravitate to the main JR forum and don't think to go to the developers profile to see the developer's specific forum. I also see some people just posting in the product comments section.

Newest posts could work, but if it's for every new post then it might be cluttered with general posts from the JR forum - not saying that a general Newest Posts wouldn't be nice also. Maybe having a "new thread in developers forum by developers" would be a better solution for a listing, that way it'll just show new threads created by developers in their forums.

Email Sync for NEW members with Aweber.com

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2/3 that's an interesting number. I just thought you guys made those because they were useful mods. Good to know that you guys entertain module sponsorships.

Email Sync for NEW members with Aweber.com

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@brian I never realized that you guys entertained sponsoring module creation. That's actually really popular on the IPB forum and there have been several modules created that way. Maybe putting it out there that you guys are open to people paying to sponsor module development, more people might be willing to help get something they want.

New Stuff Forum

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I can't speak for the JR developers but I'm not sure if they'd want the main JR forum to turn into a forum about developer's projects... that's why the developers have their own forums. I saw the announcement forum more as a promotional thing so that people can get informed about new mods / skins / ect. and go to the developers forum to discuss the mod / skin / ect more in-depth.

If you want paid developer there use to be a place where you could request a job... not sure where that's at since the new site came online.

Blisk the Web Developer's Browser

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URL and scroll of desktop and mobile are in sync
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What is Blisk browser
updated by @jimmy: 09/16/16 10:21:44AM

New Stuff Forum

Suggestions

Maybe having a "Developer Announcements" forum in the main JR forum would help promote developer's who are launching new modules / skins like @n8flex and others. Being that users probably are going to spend most of their time on this site on the forum (I'm assuming this since I don't have statistics on where users go on this site though it appears that's where a lot of users end up) that could give a boost to developers selling their products. More products sold = bigger ecosystem IMO.
updated by @jimmy: 05/16/16 10:07:40PM

New Stuff Forum

Suggestions

Hey, @michael what are the statistics of where people go when they come to the site? Because if a lot of people are hitting the JR forum first, then they'd never see what is on their profile page.

Personally, I view the JR site as more of a product site than a social network, even though it has the profile pages, etc. I think having a forum on the main JR board for developers to promote their products would be a good idea, if the statistics showed that most people who visit the site visit the JR forum first / most.

Just my 2 cents.
updated by @jimmy: 05/16/16 08:39:28PM

skin from scratch

Design and Skin Customization

Yea, @Michael videos still apply. I don't use the Site Builder module, but would assume that if you want that functionality in a new template there will have to be some items to consider.

The "Holy Grail" of VPNs

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Nice. Thanks for the link! Have to check that out.