I use Drupal for CenterNetworks and really like it. It's not perfect (for example the forums suck) but overall its excellent. It's leaps and bounds over Joomla/Mambo.
Especially in the admin side, Drupal is like driving a sportscar down the autobahn, Joomla is like riding a donkey down an unpaved road.
Joe Suh
· 2 years ago
If I had to start my social network over, I would most likely choose Drupal. I've read nothing but great things about this CMS.
We started with a different out-of-the-box package, and spent a good amount of time re-coding the garbage.
Alexandre
· 2 years ago
Definitely the multi-award winner Joomla!
Geof Harries
· 2 years ago
If it wasn't for Drupal's absolutely awful-looking admin interface, I'd be all over the platform. Here's hoping it's improved in this version, because up until now, it's been geek only.
Anthony
· 2 years ago
I highly recommend CMSMadeSimple (site isn't that beautiful but the CMS is very powerful and well designed): http://cmsmadesimple.org/
Web 2.0 Skeptic
· 2 years ago
If you want to flip your social site, better build your own. Apparently NBC didn't buy Tribe.net because of "scaling issues" and I doubt any of these can scale to millions of users well.
mike
· 2 years ago
We use heavily modified drupal for most of our sites - booktribes and humanopinion are both examples
The beauty being you get such a good base to work on you can develop your site rapidly and cheaply and by the time you have to worry about scaling issues you should have the money to throw people at a ground up rewrite.
tobto
· 2 years ago
I guess in some time we will have a specially written CMS's for social networking. For now there are no definite leader in this field. All software exist were written not for 'social networking' paradigm. We need Open Code LAMP based simple expandable platform kind of 'WordPress for Social Networking' .
Robert Franklin
· 2 years ago
When I originally did my research I ended up choosing Joomla because of it's large development community. When ever I am looking to add functionality to our site I can always find an open source project that is working on functionality that if not exactly what I am looking for is very similar.
Overall I have been extremely pleased with Joomla and it's ability to meet our users needs.
Michael Yevdokimov
· 2 years ago
If you are PHP developer I'd advice to go with CodeIgniter framework. It is not CMF though, unlike Drupal or Joomla. But you will like the benefits it offers if you are after the quality of the code and development (!) productivity.
Leendert Brouwer
· 2 years ago
[quote] If you want to flip your social site, better build your own. Apparently NBC didn’t buy Tribe.net because of “scaling issues†and I doubt any of these can scale to millions of users well. [/quote] Did you ever try? Drupal and Joomla (for example) are usually running on a LAMP platform, which scales well if you know how to let it scale. It's a typical share-nothing architecture, which makes scaling relatively painless.
knight17
· 2 years ago
Joomla! is very good.Drupal is very tough to learn while Joomla is beginner friendly too.If you are a non-coder type (like the most) Joomla have tons of additional addons.
The latest version 1.5 is in its beta stage and it is very good.A + point of Drupal is that it produces SEF URLS by default
FrEeMaN
· 2 years ago
very nice I highly recommend CMSMadeSimple (site isn't that beautiful but the CMS is very powerful and well designed): http://www.jsoftj.com/news
greg
· 2 years ago
drupal, drupal, drupal. No contest.
yes, it requires technical/programming competency, but thousands of modules and highly scalable.
And with a bit of design savy you can do anything
check out broadbandsports.com, our social networking and sports video portal, as a good example of whats possible.
-Greg
Curtis
· 2 years ago
Greg - what Drupal modules did you use to build your site?
I guess in some time we will have a specially written CMS's for social networking. For now there are no definite leader in this field. All software exist were written not for 'social networking' paradigm. We need Open Code LAMP based simple expandable platform kind of 'WordPress for Social Networking' .
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Especially in the admin side, Drupal is like driving a sportscar down the autobahn, Joomla is like riding a donkey down an unpaved road.
We started with a different out-of-the-box package, and spent a good amount of time re-coding the garbage.
The beauty being you get such a good base to work on you can develop your site rapidly and cheaply and by the time you have to worry about scaling issues you should have the money to throw people at a ground up rewrite.
Overall I have been extremely pleased with Joomla and it's ability to meet our users needs.
If you want to flip your social site, better build your own. Apparently NBC didn’t buy Tribe.net because of “scaling issues†and I doubt any of these can scale to millions of users well.
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Did you ever try? Drupal and Joomla (for example) are usually running on a LAMP platform, which scales well if you know how to let it scale. It's a typical share-nothing architecture, which makes scaling relatively painless.
The latest version 1.5 is in its beta stage and it is very good.A + point of Drupal is that it produces SEF URLS by default
I highly recommend CMSMadeSimple (site isn't that beautiful but the CMS is very powerful and well designed):
http://www.jsoftj.com/news
yes, it requires technical/programming competency, but thousands of modules and highly scalable.
And with a bit of design savy you can do anything
check out broadbandsports.com, our social networking and sports video portal, as a good example of whats possible.
-Greg
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