New Design Module - Michael

Hi Michael,

I've been following the threads over at Ning and a chap with a JR5 says he beta tested your new design module. He said it was very slow, not like the performance speed that is apparent in the video.

What could account for that? He says his hosting and computer are top notch, so he thinks that the module probably needs a lot more work.

This is a HUGE issue for the crowd trying to escape Ning. They see a migration path to Jamroom opening, but since most of them are non coders, they don't know what to do with templates and such.

So they are kind of "pinning their hopes" on your project, to give them the kind of user friendly design options they enjoyed at Ning. Drag & Drop type of simplicity.

Do you have an ETA or can you give us any idea of your progress? Also, why do you suspect his beta test was "sluggish".


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Ken Rich
indiegospel.net

updated by @ken-rich: 12/16/14 07:48:15AM

Because he was running it with the cache set to 0 and the developer module on?


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I'd have to say my experience when I tried it was a lot more positive, sometimes the page layout could hand, but adding widgets, moving them around always seemed fluid to me.

I think the issue here is like you say Ning users aren't coders per say, but for Jamroom if you want anything other than stock you need to understand 3 things: Smarty, HTML and CSS.

I can highly recommend the courses on Udemy.

The site builder, while nice to have will only ever go so far, even on established ones on WP, like Visual Composer, sometimes they are more hassle than they're worth.
updated by @garymoncrieff: 11/03/14 11:42:04PM

The speed has nothing to do with the module. What it could be:

1) He was running in developer mode
2) he was running with caching disabled
3) the server / web server is slow.

The Site Builder module is no slower than any other area of Jamroom - if you don't have JR configured right, or are on overloaded hosting, it's going to be slow.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Thank Brian,

I figured there must be a reason why it looks quick on the video, but he's saying it's too slow to be usable. Didn't add up...

The problem is he reported that in one of the Ning Forum threads where people are trying to make a decision on whether to migrate to Jamroom or not.

I'll see if I can communicate the truth of the matter there...


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Ken Rich
indiegospel.net

updated by @ken-rich: 11/05/14 06:42:10AM

Thanks for being our JR Ambassador Ken


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

It could be anything really its hard to say without knowing what he has on his computer.

Some guesses:
* firebug was open and doing something memory intensive that interfered with javascript and slowed it down.
* he had a ton of tabs open and one of the other tabs was loading a webpage that was using a lot of javascript.
* some other funky thing.

For me, Google images is too slow to use, so I use bing images. If I click on one of the google images to enlarge it, then try to do anything else in the browser, my computer crawls. I'm sure its not google images code fault because so many use it, but my pc doesn't like it at all.

Suspect something similar is going on here.