hey friends,i have got a nice one.. Its cost is around 289$. I have convinced my boss to buy it. if he buys it today,then i will show you all by tomorrow and then i will sell that to you for 50$ each copy. Ok friends?? isnt it nice???
On a whole visually it looks good. There are some things I like about the organization. The problem I had with it is that each component looked good but it was rather basic. Still needs messenger, audio and video, and a bunch of other items. Also needs to be more fully featured. Flow looks good but after using it I didn't find it exactly fun or completely intuitive to get a social networking feel. And the cost was very expensive - roughly $500 just with these components and I'll have to develop the others. I found that multiple licenses didn't provide much of a discount and not viable for me either.
ROFL. I think I just realized who you are. Ermac from DZOIC right? I've only seen that particular "star of David" used in one other place. Here it is...... http://forums.dzoic.com/showthread.php?t=3873
No Chris, I'm not ermac. He might know who I am. Regarding Agriya, good start but looks sloppy to me and doesn't have needed features. A very good start but very expensive. There are better options IMHO.
There aren't any great social networking scripts...just a dozen or so that all have many pros and many cons, as well as pros you wish could be transferred from one to another, and cons that you could never put up with as a webmaster. After about a year of searching, I feel like giving up on even bothering with any SN ideas.
It took a major effort for me to do it on a budget. If you want to get something that looks nice and will get your job done, you'll probably need around $4K at a minimum for design, customization, programming and some third party add-ins. That's the cheap and basic route and my site look very nice. From there I'm cloning the sites.
I hear you. I'm not willing to spend more than $300, I have a couple niche ideas, but I'm probably just going to wait for a later time. The only worse script to find is a dating site, it seems like almost all of them are awful or grossly overpriced.
Do you know how much it costs to create a script such as the ones you're talking about? The problem is that most of you are only willing to invest a minimal effort and hoping for maximum results. No offense but most popular sites didn't just happen on a $500 effort.
Google is a joke for this. These things change all the time. That and the opinion is largely dependent on technical skill and product exposure. For instance, I wouldn't use Dolphin under any circumstances. I wouldn't even use printouts of the code to shred and throw out of a 20 story window above a parade, or throw in a cat box. Thats how bad the code is. Yet some people love the thing, go figure. In order to know whether or not the opinion is valid, you really have to trade a few posts with people to determine where THEY are at. For instance, while I disagree about Handshakes because I don't like the company, I respect Slinky's opinion. Truth be told if Handshakes was 100% unencrypted I would have purchased it already. At least then I wouldn't have to care whether or not I could get support from DZOIC, I could deal with it all myself. That's the same reason why I don't want Joovili. It's a decent script, but most of it is encrypted, and even worse it uses "IONCube" for encryption. I refuse to buy anything encoded with that garbage under any circumstances. I could tolerate Zend for a plugin, but again, not for core code. So what does that leave? Not much. I wish I could get my hands on the BuddyZone code. It's unencrypted, and has a lot of the functionality I want. I just need to get a better understanding of what I'd be dealing with from a code perspective before I buy a license. Unfortunately, there is no way Vastal would give me a copy of their code to review without blowing $400, and the public opinion of BZ isn't that great. I'd still be willing to look at it though, simply because it does what I need on the surface. In fact, I'd have to remove features because it has too many.
Same opinion as Slinky. A sloppy, expensive script. Aside from that, Facebook is nothing special. The site has popularity because it's unique. Using a carbon copy of their code wouldn't be very unique, and I doubt you'd attract much traffic. By the time the layout was modified enough to at least make it look unique, then you're into other products. I'd probably go with Social Engine if I wasn't concerned about limiting the user's ability to customize their profile.
vBulletin is starting to head in a "social networking" direction with the upcoming 3.7. Might be worth taking a look at depending on what you need.
those vbulletin developers are dragging on that release. I dont know what the hell they're thinking. What makes it worse is that they keep getting sidetracked with these mini projects along the way that keeps delaying it. I think it's up to beta eleventeen by now
We agree yet again. vB makes a forum. Everything else they've tried to make, looks like a rearranged vBulletin forum. Their "Zoints" thing is probably what he's talking about. Fugly is the only word I can use to describe it. They used to be the best forum code out there, by far. Now they're even losing some ground to the new PhpBB3, which in a lot of ways is superior. vBulletin has a lot of superior competitors these days, and unless "Internet Brands", the company that purchased them last year, starts coming up with something fresh, they're doomed. Down the drain with WordPerfect, and other great apps that didn't keep up with the times
Agreed. It's a total disaster with the purchase just like Zoints was. I had 2 copies of autonomous Zoints - where I got ripped off when it was sold a month later and left unfinished. Zoints was a workaround and is unofficially deader than MC Hammer's career thanks to being purchased by some online vacations company that promised the world and couldn't even get to the runway. I haven't seen more than a beta of phpbb3 which, while looking great, still doesn't leave me thrilled with their back end. It's getting better though while vbulletin creates more and more stuff that, quite frankly, looks like feeble, hackneyed attempt at creating social networking elements that can't stop looking like a boxy forum. If you're waiting and counting the betas, good luck. I use it for what it's great to use it for - a forum. Next on the agenda... lol