[jdelasko]

Originally Posted by joshbond

hey, if it was just me and you, I'd be all for it. We could zoints it up all day and be zoints buddies. Its just that when you have a couple thousand members and they are always having problems with it and cant figure out how to use it, it gets to be more of a hassle then its worth. If I ever start a new site that only has like 5 members and you are one of them, then I'll use it again. Between the two of us, we'll have the most pimped out zoints profiles on the web.

For me personally, it's not about zointing it up and being zoints buddies but rather the ease of which I can create custom content modules that provide a level of functionality that I couldn't begin to acheive without it, like this flash demo. I think it's pretty cool to be able to embed a browser module and java chat room on the same page without a bunch of vbulletin hacking. Let's see you do that some other way.

http://www.majorleaguetalk.com/uploa...06_49%20PM.swf

My site is fairly new so I don't have the luxury of thousands of members complaining yet. I have found the addon fairly easy to use although I will be the first to say that end user documentation is virtually non existent. What I plan on doing is producing a number of screen capture tutorials on how to use the various features. It is no small undertaking so it will take some time. I'd complain to zoints about the lack of end user documentation but considering what I paid for this addon, I think I'll cut 'em a little slack.

I like the fact that I can make available to users a huge variety of widgets like the ones on this site: http://www.springwidgets.com Any of these widgets are easily converted to a zoints block. IMHO, it opens up a world of possibilities.

I will agree with you in that inexperienced computer users may not be able to figure it out. Zoints is no more difficult than building a myspace page and I think somewhere around 5 million people have figured out how to do that....... well at least they've figured out the technical part of it..... most Myspace users are really aesthetically challenged and come up with some really gawdy stuff.