Question about Pligg or web 2.0 software

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I am looking to develop a Web 2.0 site for a client that is a bit small in scope. A social awareness type site with commenting, stories by writers and members, some type of voting system or polling.

I have been throwing around Pligg, WPMU with Buddypress, Maybe some Wordpress blog with some plugin.

But I was looking to keep the content onsite, ie no link off like Digg or Sphinn.

Can I increase the character count in Pligg to a high number and make it not link off.?

Any other Open SOurce thing you suggest?

I think Pligg is my first choice right now.
 


I'd not mess with Pligg. I know because I have messed with it. I actually have a halfway decent site up now and it was hard to get there. It's difficult to edit and maintain and it's essentially a bad rip off of Digg, so I don't think that's where you want to go.

Try WordPress with whatever social or voting/rating plugins you can get. Wordpress is WAY easier to use and maintain than Pligg's current version and has such a huge active user base that there's always new plugins. It also has a bigger pools of talent to draw from for templates and such. WordPress allows for multiple users, such as a master user and contributors who can only write or submit stories but can't publish them.

If you want a more hands-on approach maybe dry Drupal. I haven't messed with that at all, but it has more social features. It's also less plug-and-play than WP and has a learning curve. But it does have a big user base from what I understand.

Good luck!
 
Why not WPMU w/ buddypress? I've never tried to use it but it looks promising and runs off WP. Which means exactly what coglethorpe said, and I agree with. WP is extremely dynamic and developer-friendly.

Drake, if you tried it out - why did you favor Pligg over it? Or was it just the guts.

I'm just curious as to your train of thought because while I have never worked with Pligg, I have looked into WPMU for this kind of thing myself. I intended to look into Pligg also, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
 
bobsoap said:
Why not WPMU w/ buddypress? I've never tried to use it but it looks promising and runs off WP. Which means exactly what coglethorpe said, and I agree with. WP is extremely dynamic and developer-friendly.

Drake, if you tried it out - why did you favor Pligg over it? Or was it just the guts.

I'm just curious as to your train of thought because while I have never worked with Pligg, I have looked into WPMU for this kind of thing myself. I intended to look into Pligg also, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I didnt know about Drigg, drupal aint my thing but maybe one of our programmers is good at it.

I have down several WPMU installs and like it. I havent tried buddypress yet or installed pligg. Actually Pligg is getting ftpd to try on a domain now. Too bad everyone says it blows.

I was looking for a discussion about a topic with some web stickiness like profiles, avatars, top contributors etc. Hopefully no need for outside content or blogs. They can write the whole thing in the website and even add images or polls.

You knows we might end up writing most of it.
 
Drake said:
Thanks for the feedback guys. I didnt know about Drigg, drupal aint my thing but maybe one of our programmers is good at it.

I have down several WPMU installs and like it. I havent tried buddypress yet or installed pligg. Actually Pligg is getting ftpd to try on a domain now. Too bad everyone says it blows.

I was looking for a discussion about a topic with some web stickiness like profiles, avatars, top contributors etc. Hopefully no need for outside content or blogs. They can write the whole thing in the website and even add images or polls.

You knows we might end up writing most of it.
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If you end up going with pligg I STRONGLY suggest that you install re-captcha on it right away - pretty much every other option has been broken.
 
I am working on a Pligg site right now, waiting for the template to be finished and considering which plugins to install, as well as how to efficiently eliminate spam. So far it seems like if the site gets popular at all, that it will take hours each day to moderate the thing. Initially I tried PHPDug, but that was a big time POS. Very few options as far as I could tell.

If I hadn't dropped a couple hundred on customization and templating, I might switch to a better alternative, but for now I'll have to see how Pligg works out long term.
 
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