Comments on: Which framework to use to build a Community website for my family?

Question: Which framework to use to build a Community website for my family?

mountainfrog — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:24:55 -0800

Looking for community building tool to create a family website. I have family all across the US and would like to create a website where each family member could create their own profile, make posts, share photos. Like a MySpace or Facebook but something more private and to a degree less complex. Something that is just for invited users, something that is easy to use for non-technical users and something that I can host and administer. Open source solutions would be preferred. I have used wordpress, drupal, and joomla but each requires tweaking and modules, and lots of research to setup. Just wondering if there are any prepackages solutions or easier to use modules for WP, drupal, or joomla. Thanks.

By: ruwan

ruwan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:41:13 -0800

Have you considered Kindo?

By: acidic

acidic — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:33:39 -0800

Try Ning, it's extremely simple and customizable.

By: fishfucker

fishfucker — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:01:30 -0800

seconding ning. in fact, your use case was pretty much what it was designed for. However, it is not self-hosted.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:23:13 -0800

Thirding Ning. It's perfect for exactly what you want except for the self-hosted thing.

By: mountainfrog

mountainfrog — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:32:10 -0800

Thanks for the info so far. I have looked into Ning but I prefer a self-hosted solution. Looks like Kindo is also not self-hosted. I am putting up pixs/video/info of my family and prefer to store all of that data on my own servers. I was hoping someone or some company had developed a platform I could install and host myself.

By: acidic

acidic — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:31:20 -0800

Hmm, okay, try SocialEngine, Flux, KickApps, or ONESite. I recall that these are self-hosted but could be wrong. Most self-hosted social networks are oriented toward enterprise use, understandably, so the cost or effort might be prohibitive, unfortunately.