That's strange. Can you submit a support ticket to http://zoints.com/support.z with the following info please:

1. Temp admin account
2. Temp FTP account
3. Link to your post

and we'll check things out for you.

Thanks David... We are in the middle of installing. I suggest a generic FAQ that forum owners can add to --- especially one put together by the creators of the script who have a better knowledge of how it works, available features and such. That would be very helpful.

I appreciate your excellent work and that you're always such a trooper. :knockedout:

I found the problem. It was a type mismatch in de Vb-settings, there was a / missing :confused:

Sounds good. I'll see what we can do.

Glad to hear you got it figured out :)

I have a simple question, is there a way to have this match the style of your forum? (color scheme, etc..)

Yes. For most forums, it takes about 10 minutes of work. As an example:

Forum: www.writersbeat.com
Profile: http://www.writersbeat.com/z/Jaz/

For the people who need a little help with the header, we're setting up a forum on http://network.zoints.com today where people can have the header created for free for them :)

I just changed the first post in a manner that hopefully better describes this system. Thanks for the continued feedback.

I have the zoints thread tag system installed...

is that compatible with this? any specific issues I have to deal with if I install zoints local?

It is 100% compatible and you should not experience any issues.

WOOT!! GK <3 4 zoints!!

ZOINTUP FOOS!!! :cool:

Heheheh. :alien:

How long until version 1.0 is released? will it be a problem to upgrade or should I wait?

We hope to have 1.0 Gold out within 72 hours. Upgrading from RC3 will be no problem and take mere minutes :)

That sounds nice.... I think I now have something to play with in the weekend. ;)

This improvement in the search will be available on 1.0 Gold or on later releases? :cool:

my question is, why name it local when its really not local? Its still like a network thing and i really dont want my site to be hooked into some network or my members trying to search for someone on my site and the results ends up showing for members for another site. I would like for my members to stay on my site and not be taken to another site when they try to search for members on MY site.

Wouldn't that be messed up if a KKK site add this to their site and then their members uses the search button and the results shows couple of african americans site members? Not saying anyone cares about a KKK site but its just an example of people having to search yoru site but then have results that will take them to another site so how local is this?

I wish I can pay to get that header remove or else lots of people wont be installing this the same way a lot of folks including myself stayed away from the centralized version. I thought the reason you guys released this version was for more people to use zoints but I doubt it since its still the same. Only difference between the local version and the centralized version is that with the local you put the files on your server so that you wont have to redirect or link your default vbulletin profile to zoints.com. you use up more of your disk space and bandwidth for nothing when you can use the centralized version and get the same results of this zoints product and the centralized version have more feature too.


Hopefully someone will release a profile hack one day or a paid one without having to use others with some catch to it like this one

influence, the guys working on vBlogetin are hoping to add some kind of user page in the near future onto their excellent blogging software which currently fits very nicely into vBulletin. It wont be free, but at $50, for the functionality, it's not far off.

We do provide paid "Autonomy licenses".

I would appreciate it if you would conduct yourself is a more professional and cordial manner in the future. Thank you.

What is this?

I apologize if any of my comments sounded rude or out of place for you. Just that I am really trying to do something with my site and having a good profile system is all I need so far.

Again, I am truly sorry DC


PS. does the Autonomy License completely removed the top header so that we can use our own default header? if thats the case then I am up for it and how much would it cost?

Thanks for the PM Dchapman. May aswell ask you here since others are asking too, be easier for you to answer us all together:) Is the $20 per month for the Autonomy License the only option or is there a once off payment option too? Could you please also explain the advantages this would have over this hack for those who prefer to keep it completely localised?

Apology accepted, thank you.

The Autonomy License lets you remove and change anything and everything except the copyright notice at the bottom. We give you instructions for removing our navigation, changing the search so it only searches locally, change the interest tags, etc. You become "autonomous".

It costs $20.00 per month or a one time payment of $120.00.

Well that settles it for me. Not paying monthly.:confused:

Prices provided above.

Advantages over the free version? There aren't any in my opinion. What would be the advantages for a city in the USA that blew up all their major roads in and out? Do you really think that will keep the people in that want to leave the city? It sure keeps lots of people out and stops all kinds of interaction. If communities truly become interconnected (and they will, even if its not Zoints that pulls it off) we're going to have a few virtual North Korea's on the internet I think.

Recap this for me 120 means that im completly removed from zoint? no more searc or n e thing with zoint?

and + copyright removal

That means NOTHING left from zoint correct me if im wrong?

Ah, that's good there's a one time payment option:)

I know the whole purpose of this is to connect it with zoints for you guys. However this looks to be a very nice hack and can provide many communities with more than that, and the more may be the only thing they are after.

I don't think it's the connecting with other users the admins are afraid of. Speaking strictly for me (we both could have died then and there, sorry, lyrics from a song:P) the thing I would not like about the extra nav bars, searching other communities, having options to explore other communities etc is that it would just add more features and complications for our users to work out. Some of our users are technically minded, but a lot of them aren't. And as the saying goes, sometimes less is more. We want our users to use the features on our site and not get lost going off to another site when they think they are still exploring poker.ie.

Also, for a website like mine where we offer a service and prefer to keep talk of other competing services like ours to a minimum, linking to other forums is a bad idea. There's also the fact that for forums discussing a broad topic like poker, the quieter forum may come out bad because as we all know, when we ask a question in a forum, we like to see as many replies in as quick a time as possible. If a user starts a topic in another forum and gets a better response than in our forum, that wont be good for us and we may lose them. Even though the general community of poker may now have a poster who is more active because their threads get more responses, our community will have lost a valuable member. It's happened before. One of our best posters saw another site mentioned in a thread on our forum and now posts there primarily. Even a slight mention of somewhere else could mean the loss of a user.

Hope you understand my concerns as I'm sure they are shared by many here.

It does not remove the copyright. Otherwise, you are correct.

I fully understand and respect your concerns. While I may not agree with them, it is not my job to tell you what is best for your forum. Zoints is about empowering forum owners. If that means providing you with an Autonomy License (though we hate to take money from forum owners) then we're happy to do so.

I'll take it for free if that'll make you feel any better? ;) :D

HAHA!!

I love your CAPTCHA:

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Which 2 of the following items do NOT have a brain?

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Is there a branding free license available as well? Like vbulletin offers?

Yes there is. $100.00 + $.01 per member. So if you have 1000 members it is $110.00

Can I start first with the free version, then move to the autonomy license of $120?

arf that means for 3000 it would be 30 extra? One time fee? or every extra member i have to add a penny to it?

and where can i get it?

I think zoints should follow the style set forth by the forum owner.

So create a custom style and make it the default...

Thanks (that's a neat way of pricing it :))!

So just so I'm crystal clear: with the autonomous license and the branding free license, it would be totally separate from any zoints.com references and the social network would stay within the forum?

Sure.

One time fee. If you get another 10,000 members next month, you don't pay a dime.

Open a ticket at http://zoints.com/support.z and we'll set you up.