Forum Activity for @strumelia

Adding a notification sound to SimpleChat?

Using Jamroom

This is something my members have occasionally asked about for several years.
They often leave the chat room open, and go about their other chores nearby. They sometimes miss when a new person comes into the chat and posts a message, because there is no sound notification (that i know of?) telling them someone has posted a new chat message.
I'm thinking that a popup message is not a good solution because so many folks have popups disabled on their browsers, and also because you have to actually go look at your screen for that as well.
--> Is this something that can be added without too much trouble?
(and if so, then also it'd be good if it was a pleasant sound like a bubble pop or a simple little ding sound)
Thanks!
updated by @strumelia: 04/29/20 04:49:29PM

what's your favorite skin?

Ning To Jamroom

I did a lot of tweaking, sometimes with assistance from the JR team as well. My site has been tweaked now and then for the past several years. Not what it looked like out of the box of course. You just have to look on the JR skin pages to see the Ninja sample which shows exactly what it looks like 'out of the box'.
A little or your own color scheme across the site, your own images, and tweaking each feature page to look like what YOU want. (/video, /profile, /youtube, /blog, /group, etc etc) Also you'd be setting things to BEHAVE the way you want- a gazillion settings, but that's true of any skin.
The nice thing is that you can put your skin in place and things will function already.. then it's a matter of tweaking to your preferences. You don't really have to do everything right away. It's an ongoing process, sometimes hard to know when you're 'finished'... if ever.
updated by @strumelia: 12/18/19 01:42:08PM

what's your favorite skin?

Ning To Jamroom

Well, what "looks good" is very different from one person to another. Some like very minimalistic modern clean looks, while others like sites that have lots to see on the main page, or colorful fun stuff.
That said, I notice you are posting this in the "Ning To Jamroom" forum, so am assuming you are coming from a Ning site originally... like myself.
The Jamroom team created the Ninja (formerly called "Ningja") skin several years ago to help the first wave of Ning site owners get what they wanted and get what they were familiar with in their ning sites, in transitioning to Jamroom.
That was back when I made the move from Ning to JR, so I opted to use that particular skin and have stuck with it.
JR skins are so code-able and available modules (plugins) are so plentiful, that you can adjust just about anything to whatever you need.
I wanted my several thousand members coming from Ning to feel immediately at home when we made the move, so my JR site looks quite a bit like my Ning site looked like, style wise. Yet it's infinitely better functioning and has many additional options. I know I could fairly easily change it to look more clean and modern- but that's really not what my members want. They want to see everything accessible from the Main page and to quickly scan what's new right there.

Here's my JR site for amateur musicians who play the mountain dulcimer, built on the Ninja skin several years ago and has had only had minor content changes applied since then:
https://fotmd.com/

Tell us whether your general taste and goal for your site's 'look' is for example: minimal/tech, heavymetal, mom-blog, news/politics, meditation-yoga-spa, vampirefiction, ...etc. :D

What is the best option for hosting: Managed Or Un-managed

Jamroom Hosting

Just want to jump in here to say I've had my two jamroom social network sites (with several thousand members) on a single hosted/managed Jamroom server for about three years now and I could not be happier with the value and the service. Jamroom's amazing and friendly support team keep their server very well maintained for me so that i don't need to do a thing. Any occasional issues that come up are immediately taken care of by the JR team, and the price is very reasonable.
Just remember, like Michael says- their servers are meant for hosting only Jamroom sites. But you can put multiple jamroom sites on your server at no extra cost, and you can swap server size (and cost) as you need to, very easily.

template Compare tool window not working

Using Jamroom

This seems to be behaving better for me lately. I suspect it has something to do with my display scaling and resolution. I am on a small 13" laptop with 4k resolution, but am projecting/duplicating to a larger secondary monitor. My windows display setting for 'scale and layout' recommends 150%, but I have it set for 225%. When I had it set at 300%, the 'template compare' view problem is much worse (though text was much easier to read everywhere, haha). On my separate older win7 tower desktop with its own external monitor (not mirroring a tiny laptop screen), the template compare view is fine.
Note that if i set my 13" laptop display at the recommended 150%... text,menu items, tabs etc are impossibly tiny to read. 225% seems to be a good compromise- text is more readable but items are not too big to fit into their boxes.
I'm pretty sure this is a display scaling/resolution issue having to do with how we setup our displays... and not a bug with Jamroom, so I'm marking this solved. Thanks!

template Compare tool window not working

Using Jamroom

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template Compare tool window not working

Using Jamroom

hmm... because of what i mentioned in my last post above, now I'm wondering if screen size on Chrome has something to do with this. My new win10 laptop has a small 13" screen. It's small, but it's still a PC, not a mobile device.
SoaringEagle, what's the screen size you're seeing this happen on?
My screen gets mirrored onto a larger monitor as well on my desk, but of course that big monitor is only reflecting/mirroring what is on the very small screen- the content doesn't get changed for the bigger monitor.

And yet... here i am on my macbook air 11" screen, on Chrome in OS13 high sierra,... and it displays fine. But it's on the mac, not win10.
updated by @strumelia: 11/04/19 05:35:25AM

template Compare tool window not working

Using Jamroom

I got it to appear correctly briefly, when i fussed around with chrome magnifier to full size, then back, then refresh. But I can't get it to happen dependably, and then when I go away and come back, it doesn't show correctly anymore. Screenshot:

template Compare tool window not working

Using Jamroom

I only have a dozen plugins, and none seem to be likely to interfere.
I can't seem to get the Compare screen to function or view correctly- only on Chrome, only on Win10.
On win10 works good in FF, Edge, but not on chrome. On win7 computer works good in FF, Chrome, safari. I have everything up to date, hard refresh, restarted several times, etc. Changing the magnification view in chrome does not help.
Does the Compare view use a script of some sort that I maybe don't have enabled?

Wish i could give more info, but maybe SoaringEagle can give more info since he mentioned it was happening to him as well.
Soaring are you there....?

more choices under "enable edit protection"?

Using Jamroom

In the Forum module, the checkbox gives:
"If this is checked, then 24 hours after a forum post is made, users who are NOT a Profile Admin OR the forum owner will no longer be able to edit or delete the forum post."
I find that if a member likes to stir people up, they can post a new thread that provokes some counter responses, and then after they've had a bunch of reactions and caused a debate, they simply delete the whole thing. If I'm away from my computer for the day I may not see it develop.

My point is that the 24 hours gives a whole lot of time where trouble can brew, multiple others can respond, and the original poster still has the power to just delete it all and be pleased with the reactions they got... like a kid who rings the doorbell and then hides in the bushes.
If I had more choices than just 24 hours, I could shorten it so there would not be such a long time window where many members could respond to a provocative post but the whole thing still be deleted by the original poster.

On some online forums, the original poster cannot delete their own discussion after there has been a reply to it. I find that a bit too restrictive, and I also don't want to set it so that the poster cannot delete their own posts and discussions at all. But 24 hours allows too much time for members who have discovered they can start a debate and then pull the plug on everyone.

For this Jamroom option, I'd like to see choices such as 2 hrs, 6 hrs, 12 hrs, 24 hrs, 48 hrs, and maybe 1 week. That would give a big range of choice for us as site owners. Different kinds of sites might have different needs.

Is this something that could be easily added?
updated by @strumelia: 02/01/20 06:46:12PM