registered user filelds

Moving this topic to the 1.6 area after I post. Not sure why this is in the Showcase forum.

We definitely agree that CB is less necessary for straight profile usage. There are other advantages to CB, but also many disadvantages. With Joomla 1.7's profile plugin, the user can already edit user fields. We don't have a profile integration plugin for that yet (to import into the built in Joomla fields), but one will be coming in a month or so. We're excited that users won't have to use a whole community extension just for extra profile fields as well!

Hope that helps explain, and if you have any other suggestions, let us know.

You can pretty easily create your own profile plugins, actually. The biggest thing missing though is a picture field, which can be huge or no big deal, depending on whether you want avatars.

For info on how to create your own, check out the following articles. It's mainly a matter of copying the User - Profile plugin, making some naming modifications, and then changing an XML file with the fields you want. I've never done it, so I'm sure it's a little more involved than that.. but a lot less overkill than CB:
docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_profile_plugin
brian.teeman.net/joomla-1.6/enhanced-use...-t-use-a-hammer.html

Hope that helps, and good luck!
Alex