Question Jomsocial groups are a good concept but:

Nice list you have in there.

I don't like delayed releases either. But it's frustrating to see that the only version which works in your new Joomla version is in RC state for a year (only for contributors)... And because you do not test it, you do not want to pay for it.

Migration costs: Actually only few months ago I was hoping that there were less users using Kunena. This is because supporting community delayed K1.5 releases for months. Now there are less bugs and less support requests, but honestly I have to skip many interesting messages just to give me some programming time..

I truly did benefit from Cesars post to this forum thread. even if JomSocial adds the features his development provided, having the features on my site now proved to be a valuable perk of $development. I was quoted several thousand of dollars to get done what this commercial developer provided for under $100.

I think it is important to realize that there are many members here that are endusers who profit from the product and will gladly pay for special development. They are different than the endusers who contribute in development. I had a hard time understanding the opensource idea as I write an invoice for every thing I do ( I dig swimming pools and demolish concrete structures). When I can, I hire friends and never expect to get work done for free. I see now that many forum members are kind developers who enjoy mastering their skills by review and fix. I am forever grateful for this resulting open source product.

My fear with not allowing forum review and mention of commercial products is that the members with limited code knowledge like myself will be unable to get an opinion on a product from this forum of respected members.

Gregory O'Connor
Rainbowrv.com

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