Comments on: Social Networking Scripts in Review: Part1 (Drupal, HandShakes, Joomla & vBulletin)

By: sweacegmete

sweacegmete — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:17:19 +0000

Excellent site greg-j.com and I am really pleased to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. It’s taken me literally 2 hours and 21 minutes of searching the web to find you (just kidding!) so I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor

By: Dorien

Dorien — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:05:34 +0000

Drupal is great for social networking, although not always that evident. That's why I bundled my thought together as a tutorial ebook: Drupal 6:Ultimate Community Site Guide. This will give you a site like rawvegandating.com (D5) and drupalfun.com (D6). If you are interested in the modules used, you can take a peak at the table of contents. Greetings, Dorien

By: Capoumhoalold

Capoumhoalold — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:08:42 +0000

Hi Guys,

Just joined up, i can’t see the edit button to edit my profile lol can anyone help?

thanks guys

By: George

George — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:39:38 +0000

Thanks for this comparison, based on your review I am checking out Dzoic Handshakes and Drupal, and getting hold of any reviews I can.

I agree Dzoic tops its competition, and Drupal sn modules dont seem to be ripe yet for high traffic.

By: iCE Breaker

iCE Breaker — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:28:06 +0000

The core of Handshakes is complete junk. It makes entirely way to many calls to the DB. It will NOT scale. They also code in their page to break browser caching. If anyone were to seriously use their code base for an actual social network, the site would fall flat on its face. Some of their 3rd party apps make well over 40 requests to the server to load one page— returning nearly 530k of data. Imagine having just 100 users online at once.

By: Lynne Pope

Lynne Pope — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:35:36 +0000

Joomla is actually a fork of Mambo and if you check you will find that the reasons for the fork were never made public. Supposition that the “creator got greedy” is just that – supposition, not based on hard facts. Joomla has never been called Mambo. It’s code was, but the Mambo name and project are still going strong.

By: BrurbQueueni

BrurbQueueni — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:43:17 +0000

Thanks for the post

By: Sergio

Sergio — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:30:28 +0000

I like Joomla, but vBulletin gets my vote. Like you said, you can do anything with it. I’ve actually seen an extremely customized version of vB turned into a successful social-network, too bad I forgot the url.

I haven’t looked at Drupal yet.