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Buddypress vs. Drupal Commons vs. Ning vs. …

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To compare the relative merits of Buddypress, Drupal Commons, Telligent, Tiki Wiki, Ning, ExpressionEngine and other comparable community building products. I’ve created separate topics to compare each separate product with Buddypress. I profess to be no expert on the various products. But I’ve written down what I perceive to be some of the salient differences of each product with Buddypress. Feel free to disagree and share your own insights. I hope this set of product comparisons will spur the Buddypress development community to greater heights of innovation. It may be painful to see that Buddypress has competition. But Buddypress, with its tie-in with Wordpress, also has huge assets. Buddypress developers should be diligent in scanning and learning from the competition. And in keeping with the philosophy of open source development, that discovery can most benefit the Buddypress community if done openly.

Buddypress vs. Ning (2 posts)

Started 1 year, 10 months ago by: J.H. Snider

  • Profile picture of J.H. Snider J.H. Snider said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    Ning Links:
    Home Page: http://about.ning.com/index.php

    Ning Pros:
    Simple, elegant, and feature rich
    Integrated plaform: few worries about outdated, incompatible plugins
    Has some Wordpress “plugins” such as Polldaddy

    Ning Cons:
    Proprietary data and platform
    Monthly fees, which can change at any time
    No wiki
    No open “plugin” community

  • Profile picture of John David Smith John David Smith said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Basically NIng has a “pull” model of interaction. Only designated people in a group can push announcements to the whole group. It looks like BuddyPress does allow everyone who is a member of a group to post something so that everyone who is subscribed will receive an announcement. (may be part of an extension, but it seems like an essential one that most grouops would not want to do without.