My Initial Experience with UNA

  Ok I plunged into UNA with all of the free apps from the App store and I am impressed.  Dolphin had so many head aches so I decide to upload UNA to my server.  I like the UNA Studio or rather Admin Control Panel, and all of the features for making settings, and the large list of keys and the Navigation module is nice.

  The sites TinyMCE editor is more up to date than Dolphin and I like that feature, Twitter and Facebook would never dream of allowing people to use html in post.  I suppose those platforms would consider the WYSIWYG / html text editor too empowering for their users, and would cause them to excel in creative content.

  The Protean Dark theme does need changed, the dark blue link fonts and heading text would look better as light gray or light blue and people could see the text better if this was changed.  It is a good modern theme or template but the fonts can look better.  Ocean is very nice I like it allot. I used the style editor for the two themes a little and it seems interesting, with changing the font and everything, still have to locate which fonts on the theme I need to change.

  Now the thing I did not like much was the over sized header banner or rather cover image, it looks real gaudy, I tried making changes to this but nothing happened, the suggestion was to change the cover height from 30hv to whatever you want, this however did not work.

  I suppose improvements will come in time, but for the most part I can use this, it is not the vision of Dolphin but has some powerful features.  Dolphin wise in concept the idea of having the users able to customize their profiles was something powerful for Dolphin and I would like to see that come to be for UNA.  Dolphin provided the TinyMCE editor which empowered the users with their post content and so does UNA, yet Dolphin empowered the users to be creative and make their profiles distinctive and so attractive and unique. The EVO template is a good concept since it reminded me of the old original MySpace back in the day when you could use css and html to customize your profile.

  The reason I think adding the profile customization feature to UNA to help the user be and feel creative (along with the other tools that just about all social media sites lack but UNA has) is that if you have a platform that can draw people off of the Big Tech controlled platforms with all of their nonsense they are up to today, then people will come to UNA sites for their social media needs.  The tools and adding the ability for users to customize their profiles is an experience they do not have on Twitter, Facebook or Parler.  And just about now people are looking for new social media sites to move to to get away from political censorship.  
  Well I will keep UNA, I need a messenger for it,found one tried to download it, and then found a post that said there was something wrong with it, so I am off to learn more about that.

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    • Thank you for sharing your experience.  This is my initial experience and it is not going so well.  I received the email that my network was ready 3 hours ago and stil do not have access.  The emiail said to give it 10-30 mins.  Also I don't see how to post in create a post in this forum?

      I emailed support but am not getting a good feeling.

      • Hello PopAllure !

        As you know from this thread https://una.io/page/view-discussion?id=6756 , the situation with your site has been fixed.

        • Thanks for the comment PopAllure I see that your problem was merely an update running when you had your site installed.  I installed mine on a hosting account I have through a hosting reseller account I have. I like the Hepsia Panel there, I am use to Cpanel and Vista Panel and this new Hepsia Panel is excellent.  Anyways I did see a snap shot of your site installation, and saw what you are using it for, so enjoy it, I have been busy with UNA these past days setting it all up and sprucing up the looks of the place.

          • Yes thank you!

            • Thanks Dannie!  Very excited to explore the platform and see more of the things you mention! All the best with your site!  Have fun!

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