Is this social networking site possible?

Quote from: akadama at May 27, 2007, 04:20 AM

Personnaly I used better somethings like Dr. Up Al
All is out the box.

And what would that mean exactly (except a private joke no one is privy to) ?
How does it help azw ?

Ask azm.
Sorry dadidm of you prefer to indicate "Elgg". I don’t recommend tools I don’t know. Now if you want to explain more about this new opensource projet feel free to do it. To azw

Hav’a nice day.

Quote from: davidm at May 27, 2007, 03:13 AM

But yes it would be awesome to make this available to MODx sure

Sure.

Except diverting from it, it doesn’t answer my question to you.
How does it help azw (it’s not azm ) ?

I never recommand a system I don’t know, FYI (please stop antagonizing it’s getting old People already have an idea about who I am here). Elgg is among systems I value, and have experience with. I also know AroundMe pretty well, but right now it’s undergoing major rewrite thus I don’t recommand it at the time.

And, by the way, Elgg is NOT new. I have no time to elaborate right now, but I think nothing is better than giving a system a test drive and then I can answer more specific questions (I can’t write review of every system I test here...).

Quote from: davidm at May 27, 2007, 08:17 AM

Except diverting from it, it doesn’t answer my question to you.
How does it help azw (it’s not azm ) ?

Thank your for the patch.
[don’ feed the troll now if you have no imagination to concatenate Dr. Up Al. I’m not here to make backlinks or publicity/marketing, and you?]

Quote from: davidm at May 27, 2007, 08:17 AM

(I can’t write review of every system I test here...).

So feel free to not share what you want.

//@dadim : the next time ask by MP if you don’t understand somethings instead to make a pin become a double-dealing

@ akadama
we are here to share our knowledge n learn (specially a kind moderators of French forum), not to blame each other!
if anyone has got something to say helpful and wish to share, then they’ll do!, thats the spirit of forums like modx!
everybody is trying to help, but do you really?
FYI: review your reply once!, if it doesn’t help? why not trying something else?

Quote from: MotSmart at May 27, 2007, 12:33 PM

@ akadama
we are here to share our knowledge n learn

Say it to davidm (by MP please). If Azw want more informations he can ask me. Or anyone.

Since this morning I have made several bugs reports for Modx0.96 final. And one for Modx0.96 beta that had not corrected. Re-read the thread if you worry about my helpfulness.
And for you. What are your first impressions about the last Modx? And for davidm? Opengeek want now a patch. Very funny I say. Ask to Opengeek, he can imagine
Ho just one more word. I don’t use Modx and I have install it two or tree times, then deleted. So I’m not familiar with your philosophy. The mine is GNU. 100% GNU. Thx you.

Hava nice day like a say til this morning

Quote from: akadama at May 27, 2007, 02:30 PM

Quote from: MotSmart at May 27, 2007, 12:33 PM

@ akadama
we are here to share our knowledge n learn

Say it to davidm (by MP please). If Azw want more informations he can ask me. Or anyone.

akadama, I’m not understanding what you mean here. What is Dr. Al Up (or whatever)?

Since this morning I have made several bugs reports for Modx0.96 final. And one for Modx0.96 beta that had not corrected. Re-read the thread if you worry about my helpfulness.

Thanks for the bug reports. So they don’t get lost in the forum (and they will) please file them in the bug tracker.

And for you. What are your first impressions about the last Modx?

Do you meant the 096 release that just came out?

And for davidm?

David’s one of the most-respected, long standing and helpful members of the MODx community. I personally consider him a friend and tremendously valuable contributor to the project.

Opengeek want now a patch. Very funny I say. Ask to Opengeek, he can imagine

Are you saying that you’re unwilling to submit a patch or fix? I personally can’t imagine and I’m fairly sure Jason (OpenGeek) can’t either since we work together daily and I’ve got a pretty good feel for that type of thing.

Ho just one more word. I don’t use Modx and I have install it two or tree times, then deleted. So I’m not familiar with your philosophy. The mine is GNU. 100% GNU. Thx you.

Hava nice day like a say til this morning

What about MODx is not 100% GNU? The fact that you’re not using it but keep on installing it and posting a lot lately is interesting. I’ve requested you contact me a couple of times to discuss any feedback or ideas and I’d love to still do so if you have the time. Thanks!

Quote from: akadama at May 27, 2007, 09:17 AM

don’ feed the troll now if you have no imagination to concatenate Dr. Up Al. I’m not here to make backlinks or publicity/marketing, and you?

Quote from: davidm at May 27, 2007, 08:17 AM

(I can’t write review of every system I test here...).

Dr Up. Al is => Drupal

Oh my how smart is this ? (reminds me of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs with his charades, hope you didn’t eat your neighbor lately, or at last that you had a little Chianti to go along lol...)

I didn’t see it at first because I had better to do than figure out what twisted charade was behind this expression...

Well... I am in awe Dr Bozor

Sorry for tainting the thread, I am contaminated

Feel free to split the thread from there on and move those ramblings to Flame Bait where it belongs...

Quote from: akadama

So feel free to not share what you want.

Let me decide how I use my time and let forum users figure out if what I say has any interrest.
This is not China and you’re not a member of the Party...

I’d like to go back to the original topic of the thread.

Thanks again for your suggestions.

Yes, I have considered Drupal and Joomla. The ability to install modules (rather than develop something myself) is very tempting.

I see strong advantages in learning MODx, especially in terms of long-term usefulness in multiple projects. I’m concerned, though, that learning MODx (and then developing the site) might take subtantially longer. I sense that the people I’m working with would be impatient with the delay and costs.

ELGG is interesting. I hadn’t been aware of it. From what I’ve read on their site, out of the box, it provides these features:

• Social networking
• Blogging
• Collaborative community blogs
• User profiles
• Create sub-communities
• Create ’friends’ networks
• File repositories for individuals and communities
• Podcast support
• Supports tagging
• Multilingual

There also appear to be add-on modules for:

• Forum
• Calendar and upcoming events
• Display list of logged in users
• Visitor comments on profile pages
• Private messages system

I like that it allows custom branding through CSS.

Although Elgg seems to includes most of the functions we were looking for, except for a photo album (it has one with licensing issues, I think).

I’d have two concerns with using it. First, it’s development team is fairly small compared to some opensource projects. We’d be left in a lurch if development stopped. Second, if the software doesn’t have all the features we’d eventually want, it might be more difficult to add them later than would be the case with a system like MODx.

I suppose now I should install a copy of ELGG and MODx and see how they work.

ELGG... One thing worth noting is that ELGG takes a top-down approach and gives you MySpace-in-a-box, as in: Users can form their own groups, post their own podcasts, their own blogs, etc. Of course you can limit their permissions, but my point is: It has a lot of functionality one simply does not need if one "simply" wants to create one community.

Drupal on the other hand (Dr. Up Al - haha;-) takes a more bottom-up approach. You get the tools to do one community. But if you wanna have MySpace-like functionality, there are modules like the Organic Groups, which allows autonomous sub-communities to be build, etc.

Not to push one product over the other. It’s just what I’ve been concluding when I evaluated ELGG for my own purposes. Both tools can do the same, but from very different starting points.

And then there’s MODx. A sexy tool that blinks and smiles to me, from the other end of the bar, while I start to feel my blood-pressure rise pleasantly, all the while I feel how Textpattern anxiously waits for me back home, and Drupal stands beside me, looking like not knowing how much MODx tempts me, even though I don’t know her yet, and have trouble finding my opening line;-)