James,
Some thoughts re blog farm.
The key requirements are
* fans should be able to sign up and the System shall create them a blog
and a user account.
You can certainly do this but there is nothing really in the default aura project to help you here. You would have to build the following items yourself:
- membership registration form
- membership profile management screens
- enforce some kind of content hierachy to isolate one bolg from another
* custom content like polls, forums etc can easily be inserted by the user.
Polls are easy to build (or you could integrate Pollster from the Macromedia DRK. There is a prototype forum object already -- ask Paul or Brendan on this list for the latest code.
* static content like navigation, adverts etc cannot be changed by the user.
Now this bit is straightforward. However, you'd need to build a more sophisticated Ad object to manage clickthroughs and impression counts.
I see 3 options;
* use Farcry
* use CF-Nuke and tweak it.
* use an CF blog application and tweak it.
* write my own Fusebox 4 application.
All of them sound like a fair bit of work. I'm not sure of CF-Nukes feature set -- if its close to PHP Nuke it may initially be easy to set up the sort of application you are looking for.
Could you kind reader advise me whether Farcry is suited for this problem? What are its strengths and weaknesses.
FarCry is well suited to any CF app that is content management heavy. Your only issue is that out-of-the-box FarCry is aimed at enterprise content management environements and *not* community oriented applications. I'd love to see some more farcry_aura style applications being built around the community development model (and daemon would be happy to host and nurture such projects). For example, a farcry_blog code base is something I've been hoping for -- but there is only so much one body shop can do at once :)
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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