Re: Drupal Commons vs Buddypress vs Ellg vs Jcow vs boonex vs Oxwall
Speaking as a dabbler (not a PHP coder) who’s been poking around with Drupal Commons and BuddyPress a while:
Drupal Commons Pros —
One very nicely designed feature set
Very close to being ready out-of-the-box
Well-suited for professional or corporate use
Blog well-integrated with other features
Drupal Commons Cons (compared with BP) —
Somewhat configurable, but within a relatively narrow range
Small number of themes
Themes difficult to customize after a point
Not ideal for non-business users; neither warm nor fuzzy
Blog has very few features
Getting plugins for additional features to work is often more challenging
Drupal community, while very friendly, doesn’t address the non-technical user as readily as the WP/BP community; they’re not quite, but almost, exclusive to developers. In fairness, they’re very helpful to beginning developers.
Hope this helps.
