Rating: 1 star
As others have related, I did not notice that I had to SIGN UP for an external service — the Muut “Community” — in order to use this plugin. Okay, well, I went along with the game for a moment. But then AFTER I created an account, I was informed by email that my “14-day trial account” would have all these great PREMIUM features!!! Wow, guess that should make me feel so lucky. It didn’t. I only wanted the most basic features, as the site is for a non-profit org with NO MONEY to spend on bells and whistles. I contacted Muut’s support person and asked them to turn OFF the premium features. Answer: “NO, impossible to turn off the premium features. You’ll have to wait until the trial period expires.” Really??? My response: “okay, please CANCEL my account”. Their reply: “NO, can’t do that”, and I quote, “Here at Muut (emphasis added) we have a core principle of permanence for content and discussion’s sake” It’s impossible for the account to be canceled, EVEN THOUGH I HAVEN’T VERIFIED THE ACCOUNT YET!. But, hey — and this part is so cool — “you can go into your account and HIDE your IDENTITY”! Voila! Really??? THAT’s the solution???? For all I know the software may work quite well in other respects, but I have zero interest in enabling any vendor who has such a low regard for customers’ perfectly legitimate requests, and builds their software that emprisons the customer in their system. Good luck to those who are undaunted by that.
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Your install instructions don’t mention that it requires a forum on your site. Wasted my time as I am NOT going to signup on your site.
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I’m gonna test this though it says it’s not compatible with latest WP. Will update and review accordingly.
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I’ve been very curious about Muut as a full JS alternative to Disqus.
However, Disqus works like a charm, and Muut simply isn’t working at all. Perhaps Muut is more about forums than comments. But if that’s the case it is plain wrong to promote it as an alternative to Disqus — because it isn’t!
For the moment I’ll stay with Disqus. I’ll take a second look at Muut in future if they’ll go further than early alpha.
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This is what I have been searching for! So good on so many levels.
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Hi.
I signed up for muut. So far it looks very clean and promising.
I have a few questions.
I have embedded it on my blog that contains many categories and posts.
My question is how much will this slow your site down after many members have joined and many topics have been created and many replies have accumulated?
Also can this be configured with User Pro or Users Ultra to enable more detailed profiles of the members?
Lastly, how do you “clean up the forum”? Do you have an automation tool designed to delete topics and posts that are greater than 1 year old.
Many Thanks.
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This plugin is completely free however you are automatically given a 14 trial to use some of the ‘premium functions’. Here is what you get for free (not premium):
Free:
Users can login with facebook, or google+ or with muut acct
Unlimited traffic
Unlimited users
Unlimited posts
Real embedding
Style look & feel
Spam protected
28+ languages
Search engine optimized
No ads
Yeah so plenty of funtionality for free -for us broke people lol. I think the premium you get twitter, and mail chimp support so if you have alot of traffic that would be ideal.
I got this plugin for the forum because bbpress is aweful in my theme and I just really don’t like it.. especially how it adds a slug at the end of your intended url
e.g. yournameofsite.com/forum <—- forum should post here but instead with bbpress it adds slug to it /forum/forumname etc
Anyways I dont have this problem with muut forums. I’m sure there’s some work around to the bbpress probably, but I spent over an hour scratching my head lol and muut was simple to install and unique.
Okay now I am using just the forum part of this plugin and this is what I can say about that aspect of it:
-The forum loads up very fast.
-Automatically gets crawled every hour (this is good SEO)
-Easily customizable:
-Inviting and simple interface.
-Easy to set up
With a couple clicks you can change the color of different things, round the boxes, add shadows to boxes etc and themes (for premium).
And finally.. my biggest impression is that this to me is what disqus would be like if it were a forum; but superior in load time and features. Simple, crawlable by search engines and integrated with other social networks.
Thanks!
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Muut is the simplest discussion forum I have ever seen. Quick installation, and easy integration. My readers love it!
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Kills the websites css and layout, account not deletable at muut.com and so on. I’d give zero stars.
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Is it possible to import usernames, passwords and threads (from another old, forum) or would users need to register as new? Thanks!
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These developers that make you install free software then tell you its a free trial are shameless and will always get a one star review from me. Don’t add your premium plugins to a site that all about open source, find a better marketing tactic that doesn’t waste anyones time. If I could give a “0” star I would.
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I wanted a forum that would be attractive and clean, for my website is designed to be a forum only. Muut is just right for what I wanted: a clean and attractive forum that I could embed right into my site. I received live human non-robotic support quickly and at the most obscene times of the evening. I am so grateful to Paul Hughes, who helped me create customized discussion sub-channels that look great on the site/forum. Michael Neil is also wonderfully helpful. Thank you both very much.
Other forums get the job done, but they aren’t ideal if your forum is the heart of your website. I tried a few, but they were ugly. Aside from the appearance of Muut, I appreciate the spirit of it. Its creators wrote a mantra, and at least two of the people who helped me via live support referred to it. They walk the walk, that’s for sure. At first, I was miffed that I couldn’t change what I had posted or delete posts from the forum. But not now. We should think about what we post before we do so. That can be a hard pill to swallow, but words are powerful. We should be heartfelt and thoughtful with them. (I am saying this to myself as much as I am saying it to anyone who reads this.) Muut helps me remember this by insisting that I stand by what I post and not make careless mistakes because I am distracted or in a rush. I appreciate that, and I hope this plugin will start a movement that changes the tone and correctness of many of the comments and discussions taking place online.
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Was having some difficulty with the set up of my Muut and not only did Paul from Muut take the time and help me solve the problem (with numerous emails since I wasn’t that swift) but after he solve those problems he helped me with WordPress formatting and got my site to where I needed it to be. He was great.
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my website is broken because of the plug in!! shame. dont recommend. Cant view any pages. .htaccess is corrupted
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The design of this forum is excactly what I wanted. The authors must be mind readers! Also the support is very good.
The only drawbacks is the high cost for the pro versions and that you can’t edit the text in the forum design (which I wanted to, to make it personal).
Overall, I can live with these minor flaws.
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The best forum I have seen for WordPress by far! Easy installation with clean design.
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Hands down this is the best modern forum software in general and for wordpress especially. Mobile-friendly. Amazing support. New and cool features keep getting released. Just perfect.
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this is exactly what i have been looking for in terms of an all in one forum and blog comment solution. the latest release addresses all of the items i had thought were shortcomings but i was willing to live with – so now its a home run. nice work.
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The Muut forum is very cool and the options for inserting it into WP are great.
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