You guys are great but...

www.joomlaworks.net/extensions/commercial-premium/socialconnect

I'm sure (well fairly sure) that your extension is better. I love it, I love the improvements, I love autotune. But these guys have just added Twitter and a few other things. I'm sure the Twitter one is an easy one to add, you guys are nuts not to have done that already years ago. (it's easy for me to be sure as I don't know anything).

I don't know about demand for Ning for my site, but for other sites yeah sure. I don't know about other features such as MySpace or whatever, but Google and Oauth is a good one, there are quite a lot of comment ones too that may be useful. Definitely worth considering how they position themselves as a login option whereas you don't, BUT I would say that is the main benefit, that and the information that can be gleamed from these sites.

Basically they promise more features soon, and they are quite a bit cheaper for the whole lot. Can I request Twitter and Google logins quickly

JFBConnect is way more powerful than socialconnect, you just have to chck the canvas tab to see that, that said, socialconnect has 3 very strong points where JFBC may be lacking a bit

1. Easyness: Not that JFBC is hard, but socialconnect is just plain dumb, with JFBC you have to deal with long configuration/integration, and then "fight" with SClogin/mod_login to looks how you want and work correctly (in latest beta, I know it's beta, it keeps making me reconnect my fb account)
2. Looks: Doubt this surprises you, but JFBC is ugly... I hope that for stable or even RC you take advantage of bootstrap to make it prettier, and that login is improved... on the other hand socialconnect is really really appealing, looks awesome, and pretty clean
3. One for all solution: Face it, many customers just want for their users to be able to registrer/log with their social accounts, don't care about canvas, integration, comments, etc because they already have that covered, don't bother with it, or whatever the reason. the strong points here for JFCB is that integrates your joomla communities with social ones (well, just FB, LinkedIn one does not do same ) importing/exporting your status changes, logins, and so, as well as profies and avatar

So in my opinion, JFCB is overally a better product, with many more options, but jomsocialconnect is also improving lots, so unless you start broadening the supported social sites (specially the other 2 big ones, twitter & g+) the competiton may be fierce...

I fully agree, your solution is awesome, I would never knock it, you update regularly, and your support is second to none, I fully appreciate all of your hard work.

I'm just trying to give you some more to do too

I've never thought of it as ugly, but what I would say is sometimes an extension is not that good, but it really looks good, and feels more enjoyable to use just because of it. I'd say take a line from YooTheme for this, I'm not sure that their products are any stronger than the competition but they feel much nicer to use.

Why not work with them to develop a new interface?

alzander wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by:
is that integrates your joomla communities with social ones (well, just FB, LinkedIn one does not do same

Thanks for the answer Alex

I meaa that as far as I know, JFBC does post in FB when you update in JS for example and in JS when you post in FB, but JLinked does not ( I could be mistaken)

When I said not all clients use all your tools, I was not referring to use another ones to do same instead of yours, that would be a bit stupid from my point of view, but similar, for example for comments, I don't want to have FB comments, I prefer some native ones, like the awesome Komento, or a more powerful platfom, as Disqus, and the rest of FB goodies, they are cool to exists, but I don't pick Sourcecoast above the rest for them, in fact, think the only time I installed them was with first JFBC you published (I picked it in that cmsmarket site), but for the support and integration with other joomla products.

If you are just aiming to get a login extension, and don't care for integration (nor usernames ), right now, I would clearly go for socialconnect, if on the other hand, I want crossposting, customization and FB publishing when an article is created, a review is done in jreviews (anotehr of my loves), etc, sourcecoast is the good direction...

That said, currently, twitter may be the most trendy social site, and for sure the one most used for login if you have an account, as the info & power you give to the site is way lower than with FB...
Also with google, it may be less famous than FB, but way more geeky! (and for me way better), but it's not just that but all google products you can sync! think of drive, picasa, etc!

About looks, my biggest concern is SCLogin requires tinkering to get the looks you like (remember this thread www.sourcecoast.com/forums/jfbconnect/jf...or-sclogin-overrides)
I think SCLogin could be greatly improved by giving it backend parameters for all extensions, right now you can configure FB js, text, image) but Linkedin must be overriden
Would be great to have a login module I could place anywhere, that I can configure to pop a modal don't you think? I, with my little skills and the little I know of how your extensions work achieved to make it with rokbox, and overrides, so, should not be that hard and would improve the product lots! and the possible clients that get astounded by socialconnet looks, will find same here

Its always refreshing to have such well written, positive and conclusive responses. You'd be surprised how many developers do not have people skills

alzander wrote: I can gladly help you implement that (yes, with an override).

I will gladly accpt the help in a few days though, have some urgent issues picking all my time