Re: Best non-BuddyPress Community/Social Site?
While nowhere near as fancy as that site I have come across a couple of others.
http://www.airshowbuzz.com/ basically it’s just a photo/video sharing site focused on military planes.
One of my favorites is http://community.beliefnet.com/
While the layout is a bit of a mess imho, the functionality of this site never ceases to amaze me. You can seriously spend weeks digging through the beliefnet network as there is so much content.
Their blog portion http://www.beliefnet.com is actually layed out pretty well considering how many blogs they have. By using categories/subcategories for all blogs, along with ‘featured bloggers’ I have never had a hard time finding what I am looking for.