Blogs and Profiles?

[ccoa]

I still have a license for vBlogetin, if we want to use it.

http://www.vblogetin.com/

However, vBulletin now has an official blog plug-in. It's not free, but it would probably have better support and more frequent updates. This will eventually include profile enhancements (drag and drop and custom fields) and social networking. It may be a better way to go.

One year license is $50, renewals are $20/year.

Other possibilities:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=140614

EDIT: Of those, PhpFox looks the most powerful, but it's pretty expensive. $300 for a full license or $40/month for a montly license.

[Ronove]

I'd like a blog :O I thought they were nifty.

[ccoa]

Blogs are nice, but if we go Anaryu's route for a more DevArt-esque setup, we're going to need customizable user pages. So it'd make sense to get software that does both.

Also, the vblogetin guys suck at support. >.<

[Ronove]

>< don't a lot of people in charge suck for support? :<

[Alisa_Tana]

Erk showed me the official one yesterday while I was combing thru the add-ons looking for the self-mod/white-list/child-thread stuff.

It looked pretty neat. And if its only 50 bux for the first year, the could probably be raised pretty easy to raise in donations. I could probably manage 10 bux. (more if I had a job)

[ccoa]

It is pretty neat, but the drawback is that it's still pretty basic and early in development, and the profiles and such aren't done, with no word on when they will be done.

The more I look at phpfox, the more I like it. $300 would be hard to raise, though. I could probably pitch in $10-20, but that's about it.

http://www.phpfox.com/

It seems to have a lot of the things people have talked about wanting, and some that are just cool to think about:


Personalized page that can be customized without knowledge of CSS/HTML
Friends and Favorites
Threads that can be visible to friends only
Blogs
Gallery, with commenting (entries can be visible by friends only, if desired)
Groups, with invites, permissions, subforums, shoutboxes, etc
Reporting
Integrated forum (would mean ditching VB...)
Classified section
Live chat and one-on-one IM


Sounds awfully cool. Here's a demo of how it works:

http://demo.phpfox.com/

It's an expensive, big step, though, so we'd all have to be sure that's the direction we want to go in.

[Erk]

I personally think it would be worth it to wait a little while and see how vbulletin's blog comes out. It looks really promising and it is not very expensive.