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Social networking software - anything worth using?

I have spent many hours lately trying to find an ideal social networking script to be hosted on clients' websites. I was at first impressed with Elgg but have found it to be buggy. I have used Joomla with Community Builder but found it easily hacked and often broken. Many other social networking scripts which can be purchased for $200-300 have pages that look like 1990s scripts - graphics are poor. So I'm wondering if any others in this network have had positive experience with any hostable social networking software. Thanks!

Tags: networking, scripts, social, software, websites

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Permalink Reply by Buck Lawrimore on December 31, 2008 at 2:34pm: Here's an update - found some good comments about social engine today - checked it out - will probably download the free trial. Package is $250 but you have to pay if you want good support IMHO. http://www.socialengine.net
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Permalink Reply by Andy Ciordia on January 15, 2009 at 7:27pm: Drupal's got the most age on it and is pretty solid. You can also break the Ning codebase and set it up elsewhere. (or used to, my maps a little old). There's also the new WordpressMU idea (check out the local BarCamp site).

Clients are so..interesting.. if there is one thing I've learned, 95% of clients specs aren't what they really want. Oh it sounds good, community site, content, people can do cartwheels all day.. but then they put no effort into maintaining it. Do you start yours out on training wheels? I've yet to have many get out of the blog stage. The effort for an excellent social creation is awesome to behold but there was some serious work to make it turn the tricks that can be done.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rob Harris on January 24, 2009 at 3:24pm: For hosted use either ning or socialgo. Drupal is pretty good but a decent learning curve. I agree with Andy...the technology is the easy part. Creating a vibrant community is the hard part. It takes work.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brent Friar on February 21, 2009 at 10:40pm: If you are still looking, there is a relatively new Joomla component that is very good called JomSocial. Was part of the beta and did extensive testing on the platform. The code is very stable, super easy to set up, and very feature rich. I have just installed it on my first site and it went flawlessly. The price is pretty good too - $150. Take a look, they have a free site running on the platform. I would highly recommend the component, I have used this developers other extensions in the past and they are top notch. http://www.jomsocial.com/; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Buck Lawrimore on February 23, 2009 at 7:25am: Thanks Brent. I used to us Joomla a lot but had major hacker issues. I'm hearing more good things these days so will give JomSocial a look.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Taylor on March 10, 2009 at 4:51pm: don't know if this will have all the functionality you want but http://www.squarespace.com/ looks interesting; ▶ Reply to This

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