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Permalink Reply by Writer Chick on March 31, 2013 at 10:45am

Ah. That makes sense. I didn't even think of the page being created ahead of time. Thanks! :)

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Permalink Reply by Roleplaysocial.me on March 31, 2013 at 7:34pm

A couple warnings about GROU.PS!

The platform itself is really amazing with it's features and ease of design, BUT!

It has major bugs which i've noticed more and more as more members join.

Has problems with speed, sometimes not loading at all!

Activity feed will sometimes show information from hours ago, instead of recent info.

NO MODERATOR OPTIONS WHAT SO EVER. If your hoping to be able to ban people, good luck. The only way I found possible is if you make joining the network, by admin's approval and simply don't approve the people you've deleted. <-- this is not really gonna work well if you don't know their email, or they change that and their profile info. Frozen profiles can still join in the chatroom!

Can't delete messages from the chat and chat history doesn't work.

Members are having issues posting replies, either the site logs them off or they get an error code.

Support is horrible, as they still have not gotten back to me about this issue and i've sent 3-4 support tickets over the past couple days.

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Permalink Reply by JenSocial on March 31, 2013 at 7:55pm

Sorry to hear this. Thank you for the update, appreciate it. I hope it gets better and better.

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Permalink Reply by Neuerotica on May 1, 2013 at 12:08pm

I am so late to this party!

Well, I'm staying. I agree with Tony in that there are so many possibilities now, and it's an exciting time for us! 

To be honest, I almost considered leaving since I now have investors. Wasn't sure if I could work with Ning 3.0, but my investors did not care for Ning 2.0 at all. So, I looked at my satellite accounts and began experimenting with them, and found I could do so many things I had no idea I could do before. Tumblr was the top contender to replace my Ning network. What I did was use Disqus for commenting and chose a theme that was powerful, elegant and allowed the public to share all content. This way it would save me time and headaches trying to get people to join which most folks seems opposed to these days. 

However, I ditched the idea of leaving Ning for Tumblr, and came up with a superior idea. It's an idea that depended on me being able to work with Ning 3.0. With my investors money, I bought all of my domains, decided to give each of my satellite websites a "personality" and unique function, instead of using them as I had been to direct traffic to my Ning site. Now I have an independent fleet of sites that will each augment the other. When my Ning 3.0 is up and running this summer, the party will begin! Until last night I wasn't confident I could make it happen, though when I met with investors last month, I told them I could. I'm glad I followed my intuition, because I've got some great ideas for my Ning 3.0. 

The one thing that anyone using technology ought to understand is that it is constantly changing. Not just every day, but every minute and every second of our lives. It is a never-ending process of human advancement that will continue until the day our sun dies, sometime in the unimagined distant future. It is foolish to expect otherwise. Web 2.0 is on its way out, Web 3.0 (or whatever they finally decide they're going to call it) is here. In five years or less, 3.0 will be obsolete, and so on. I've read posts at Creators by theme designers bemoaning the changes, and I'm shocked they didn't see this coming. I would have expected coders to be on top of these things (J Farrow is always in the know). Hell, I remember when I took one of my networks to SocialGo back in 2009, and was shocked at the features available there not available at Ning. One thing in particular that stood out was the ability to adjust column width using a drag interface. Ning is only now offering the ability to adjust columns, and it's still not as advanced as SocialGo.

My site appeals primarily to young folks, and Ning 2.0 was not particularly youth friendly. We have functions and features they have no idea what to do with, which we can not turn off or control (blogs for instance). This is why they prefer the simplicity of Facebook. Years ago when 2.0 was in vogue, young folks were excited to build their Myspace profiles, create gaudy flashing animated gifs with their equally gaudy bright, flashy backgrounds and graphics. They became bored with it, tired of getting hacked, and waiting for pages to load.

With Ning 3.0, I can build a community that is simple for my members to navigate, and leave the blogging to the professionals. I'm glad someone at Glam has been reading my posts at Creators last year, I just wish they'd have cut me a check. 

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Permalink Reply by Roleplaysocial.me on June 7, 2013 at 4:16am

So we moved from ning to grou.ps and from grou.ps, back to wall.fm. I don't think we will be moving from wall.fm. I'm very pleased with it in every way.

I love how easy it is to block certain content for the roles you can make for members and guests. You can easily create a homepage that only guests will see, but when they sign in it's a new setup with different modules, etc.

You can upload videos or add them from almost any video service across the web. <-- way better then ning's video player. You can even choose the size of the standard videos, which I could never figure out how to do on ning. My players always looked funky because my theme was modified to be wider but the videos were not.

The theme/s are gorgeous and easily tweaked to look professional. Profiles are more customizable then on ning and they even have a very gorgeous cover photo(which you as admin can choose the size of). Groups also have these cover images, which make them more useful on my site for anime/roleplay/etc. Overall i'm very pleased with it.

www.roleplaysocial.me or www.roleplaysocial.net

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Permalink Reply by Roleplaysocial.me on June 8, 2013 at 6:17pm

My wall.fm site is way better looking then my ning site was.

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Permalink Reply by ★Mysticpagan★Secret Moon Garden★ on June 8, 2013 at 6:59pm

How much does it cost once the trial ends though.

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Permalink Reply by Roleplaysocial.me on June 9, 2013 at 2:20pm

 

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Permalink Reply by Roleplaysocial.me on June 11, 2013 at 12:58pm

Not to be rude or anything, but I think your theme looks absolutely terrible. To each their own I guess.

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Permalink Reply by Writer Chick on June 11, 2013 at 1:34pm

When someone prefaces a statement with "not being rude or anything", they are being rude. 

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Permalink Reply by JenSocial on June 11, 2013 at 1:48pm

Writer Chick, Rut-ro!

;-)

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Permalink Reply by Roleplaysocial.me on June 11, 2013 at 9:09pm

So in that statement, you are practically stating that anyone who is trying to be somewhat earnest in expressing a bold opinion, be it criticism or not, is being rude? So therefor, are you not being rude yourself?

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