Social Media Scripts
 

for a facebook-like site. any that aren't a piece of shit?

happy st. patrick's day.

if you find one let me know. All of the ones I've looked at kind of suck.

Started looking last year, still haven't bought one yet. Let me know if you find one. :(

This is probably something pro level custom or diy/your partner/coder to get it right.

If there is an off the shelf.. dolphin? http://www.boonex.com/dolphin/ never used it.

So I guess you found JomSocial. I just did some work on a site running JomSocial and it was crap. This one looks pretty good: http://www.phpfox.com/

I'd been looking for two years. Tried a few, and they were shit. In the end, had to simply develop my own custom from the ground up.

http://www.wordpress.com :thumbsup
Better than any other script and with some customization it can be molded to replicate ANY social or CMS script, hands down. If you have some PHP coding skills, you won't need anything else.

forgot about http://buddypress.org/ anyone use it?

Sucks hard

yeah tried the demo and it was shit.

+1:( ...

very complicated. We tried but got stocked

Properly customized and in conjunction with WP it does everything Facebook does. And then some more. So how exactly does it suck? I can mention no less than 20 features a WP+BP install may have that Facebook doesn't have. Hey, let's make it at least 30. And I'm talking about core functions, not just bells and whistles

What most people seems to forget is that WP is an ENGINE which has a lot of uses. If you don't know how to use that engine, you may end with a Pinto. If you know how to use it, you may end with a F1.

Both WP and BuddyPress have the most simple and user friendly features as default. Nothing complicated, a little over a Pinto, just not much more than that. The features 99.99% of people want and will use.

And I'm talking about BP+WP because it's a time saver, BP is just a plugin using WP engine, I could do exactly the same with WP alone. And I'm comparing it to Facebook, not to some lame FB clone script, otherwise it would be like comparing a nuclear weapon to a green pea, there's not even a relation (and yes, I had to convert from phpFox to WP because phpFox, which happens to be the best after WP, is way too limited)

So, in any case, a proper assertion would be: "I have no idea how to unleash its power. Maybe I should hire someone to do it...."

- If you can find some to hire than that would be an option.
- 1001 mod makers, some stop, some got hacked, a lot not updated
- lay out sucks
- To much work for what you get out of the box
- So money mods that it is hard to find a good one
- You can get a F1 with less trouble in less time.
- It is like that old Mambo Community. Nice if it works, a hell to update it.

I think if you would hire someone, use Drupal.

i would go with wordpress+buddypress

well, even though you think you're arguing against what I said, you're giving me the reason: WP is an ENGINE to do ANYTHING you may dream of. As for your points:

If you can find some to hire than that would be an option.

personally I don't need anyone, but usually successful companies hire competent people in order to get the best for their business. It's called Business 101

- 1001 mod makers, some stop, some got hacked, a lot not updated

yes, you're right. Then again, I don't think it's a problem to have 1000+ mods (I think you fell extremely short) as opposed to have... 0.


- lay out sucks

I might agree here, although the default one is pretty decent IMHO. The beauty of WP is you have a couple million layouts to choose from. If you think those layouts suck, then... YOU CAN DO YOUR OWN!!!! (as opposed to be constrained to a few customization options like in 99.99% of scripts)


- To much work for what you get out of the box

The point is nobody mentioned a good "out of the box" script, while WP is, hands down, 1000x times better than ANY other script. You might need to tune up? Maybe. But think about this: a) MAYBE you won't need to change it, depending on your needs ; b) YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO DO IT!!!!! (as opposed as you get some crap and bear with it) and last but not least: I don't know of ANY successful company that uses "out of the box" solution, they all have needs and requests that need customization. Off the helve scripts are for people who doesn't have any special request. Again, Business 101. It's like saying " I found this great amazing office for rent, the price is incredible, the location is perfect, but I don't like the paint color, so... IT SUCKS!"



- So money mods that it is hard to find a good one

Again, yet you have them. And nobody is pressing you to use them! :helpme


- You can get a F1 with less trouble in less time.

Really? Show me!


- It is like that old Mambo Community. Nice if it works, a hell to update it.

WP is a hell to update? You really lost me here, if your idea of "hell" is clicking a link and wait 5 to 10 seconds I really don't know what to say :helpme


I think if you would hire someone, use Drupal.

Well, you might tell this bunch of retards about Drupal, it seems they missed the memo

Conslusion, i think it sucks, you think it is great.
Agent 488 can try it and tell his experiences.

Good luck with updating and waiting till all mods are working with the latest install.

Conclusion: I think it's great because I actually know how to use it. You think it sucks because you don't, hence the weak arguments and why it's so easy to prove them wrong

And I don't need any luck, lol, I KNOW how to use WP! :thumbsup

Either way, I'm still curious on your "easy F1 ready to go script", I honestly would like to take a peek at it, I'm not the stubborn kind, if something is good, I can use it

i thought i would say, pussy lips

about the best "off the shelf" script is http://www.socialengine.net/

thanks looks good.

So phpFox and socialengine.net are the best out there? I wanted to try Dolphin Community Builder, but I read some reviews and it seems it is not such a good script after all.

Dolphin is terrible and full of security holes. Or at least it was a year or so back when I tried it. Plus I had a hard time finding a good Dolphin developer that was worth anything. It really is a shame since it looked like a solid platform.
:(

I will say this one time... I have one, it will cost you money and will be the best platform you can ask for besides paying mad money to develop from ground up or customize an existing shit ass platform like all the others out there

That is a shame! Lot´s of security holes we don´t like ... I have been looking now a little bit at both phpfox and SocialEngine, and both looks to have all the features I want - and then some. Not too expensive either. SocialEngine will be around $450 with the plugins needed. phpFox is $299 included all plugins.

Hope someone can throw in a review and/or share links to sites they have made using any of these scripts :)

I purchases phpfox and just abandoned the script because it is a pile of shit to customize

Interested! Do you have a live site that I can see? My ICQ 441979364

phpfox is not THAT bad, as a matter of fact it is pretty decent. But yes, you might need a good php coder if you want to customize it properly

I think you may have responded in another thread about me asking for a good programmer. No programmer wanted to touch phpfox because it is a mess... had another script totally reworked and it also was a mess. Code is sloppy, security issues, just overall poor script... all of them

I own a fetish social network and am running it off socialengine.net, been a few hiccups but for the most part can't complain for the price. Their support SUCKS though. lol
And that's my :2 cents:

http://www.worldlypeople.com/ I have phpfox there, but it's a spam hole.

I'm using wordpress/buddypress for a mainstream project and love it. I found it easy to use and if there was anything I needed to tweak, it's easy to find on google.

Yeah, I see many people recommending this WP/BP. This is a script that I am familiar with, so that would be an advantage for sure, since I am VERY impatience when it comes to learning new scripts :1orglaugh I guess now, at least for me, it is between WP/BP (free) and socialengine.net.

Thank you all for inputs, and sorry for hijacking another persons thread :)