Community Websites?

[Joshua S. Freeman]

well... just for the heck of it I like post-nuke better than phpNuke
'cuz it's modular.. though.. i haven't looked at phpNuke in a while so
it may now be modular as well...

also phpWebSite is simpler and also nice.

J.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002
pll at lanminds.com
wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently read the LJ article by Reuven Lerner about OpenACS, and 
> was considering using it at work to build an environment for the 
> engineering groups.  But after looking at the OpenACS website, I 
> wasn't overly impressed with their documentation (It doesn't really 
> tell you what ACS *is* other than "a toolkit for building web 
> communities" or something).  There isn't a concise list of what
> OpenACS includes (i.e. what do get that's so great?).
> 
> So, my question is, has anyone built a "web community", and if so, 
> what did you use?
> 
> The three tools I know of are:
> 
> 	- PHPNuke 	(isn't gnhlug.org using this somewhere?)
> 	- slashcode	the stuff powering /.
> 	- OpenACS
> 
> Can anyone list the pros/cons of each?  What they liked/didn't like, 
> etc.  Keep in mind, I'm interested in recent experiences.  Comments 
> like "I looked at slash a long time ago and the code is really 
> horrible!" don't really help me (unless you *know* nothing has 
> changed :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Seeya,
> Paul
> --
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