I just wanted to say how delighted I am with Zoints as a company and as a product.

Their customer service is the best I have ever experienced, professional, quick and efficient. They solve problems with perseverance, determination and friendliness.

Their editor is really easy to use and the interface is appealing and adaptable.

My site is almost ready to be launched and I feel confident our members will be thoroughly delighted by being able to build their own mini-websites that are easily configured to suit their own desires....I Highly RECOMMEND Zoints and continue to be amazed that we can get this amazing mod FREE!

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Richardson

Well, I'm loving this mod. I'm almost ready to release it on my board but I see one tiny problem. There is no clear or obvious way to easily go back and edit your "forum profile options". The only way i've seen is to click "edit avatar" in settings. Am I missing something? If not can you explain to me how to add another link in settings which users can click to view the old profile and update as they like.

No problem at all Defkalion.

We really appreciate it that you notice Elizabeth as we do try our best. I am missionhockey21 from the support side, the guy poking around to fix the style for Zoints Local, and it was a pleasure to help your community get up and going.

Hi DoB Rhapsody,

I would suggest starting a thread at network.zoints.com as I would probably not be the best person to help you do this properly. The engineers have a much better understanding of how to implement something like that (or at least better than I do) and hopefully they can quickly help you.

- Reid

Strike3 - your work here is definitely nice to see. Unfortunately every since David was bought out, Zoints became the graveyard most of us anticipated. The Autonomous licenses I bought sit on the side with the same bugs they always had and I haven't seen an update come out in a long, long time. I'm hesitant to install because I'd rather have a running forum than one that functions only some of the time. Has anyone been using it consistently for vb 3.6.x and 3.6.8? I need to add in extra functionality shortly and this is one of those decisions. Thanks.

For some reason i get this in the top right hand corner: 

Anyone know what it could be ?

Hi slinky,

Well first off, I appreciate that quite a bit. As for your concerns, I do remember seeing your name in connection to the autonomous version having some bugs. As you and others deserve to know, I have been talking about Zoints releasing a new version for awhile now and working with a lot more of the marketing issues and idea creation for future releases, that has been true, recently however our engineers have determined a set group of features to add on to a new version as well as a thread documenting all known bugs. I really can't speak to a time line or divulge the information to it as I can't guarantee it as I don't want to put the engineers on the spot, but we're closer than ever. I know the development has been frustrating but we're hoping that will change. I can't remember if it was you or someone else but it seemed like someone mentioned there was problems specific to the autonomous versions (whether it was true or not, I don't remember), but if you can please make a topic in the feedback forum at the support side detailing any bugs you have (again), it would help to hopefully ensure those will get corrected. Like I said, I am pretty familiar with your name so you might of already done this so if so, just humor me as I will then link the engineers to that topic.

http://network.zoints.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41

I apologize for the frustrations you've had and hopefully we can work towards relieving them.

Hi ianwilcox,

If could be due to code in your style. Go to your Zoints installation, click Zoints Admin Area, at the Header and Footer setting click Other and from there click None to both of the choices that show up (this will show the default Zoints style without influence from your forum's) and tell me if the problem still persists, if it doesn't, it's something to do with your style.

- Reid

Thanks for your comments strike3. Unfortunately I'm at the point where I can't even install the zoints version that is up there right now. I've got the dreaded administrative necessity error right after step 1 of the install and see no .php file created in my include folder. Tried everything and it seems I'm far from the only person with this problem, which has been lingering for months. I've posted comments in the forums and a help ticket but haven't yet received a reply. I'm getting the general feeling that vbulletin owners are as excited about the future of zoints are are Kansas City Royals fans, by way of analogy...

Hi again slinky,

I don't know if you missed it but I responded to your ticket about 6-6.5 hours ago and then one of our engineers, Danny, responded to it about ten minutes after I did as he is taking it on. He responded back that there were troubles logging in with the information you provided and is awaiting your response.

:)

- Reid

Thanks Reid - oddly enough it all worked for me so somehow what works for you works for you guys and vice versa, lol. Note that there are then "mistakes" in the installation instructions of your primary Zoints Local page at http://network.zoints.com/showthread.php?t=2179

Step 2 – Upload the /z/ folder to:

yourdomain.com/z/ or
subdomain.yourdomain.com/z/ or
yourdomain.com/forumdirectory/z/

It's been there for a very long time... Thanks again.

Yeah, it perhaps isn't very crystal clear as the important detail is that the /z/ folder is installed to the forum's root directory. Thanks for pointing that out.

- Reid