Thanks guys - I'm still debating how much of the development work I want to do myself vs. paying someone else to do it. w/ Wordpress there are a ton of development shops that I can turn to and w/ Habari I'd have less options.
Now for the record WPMU isn't meeting my needs out of the box either so with either platform there's going to be a significant investment (time/effort/money) spent on development/customization. If you were going to pay developers to build the kind of site I described - do you think after all is said and done they could get "more" developed using WPMU+Buddypress or Habari? I know that for myself personally, I'd have a much easier time developing on Habari, but I wonder how efficient the Wordpress development shops have gotten at building features/customization after spending so much time with the Wordpress code base? In the end I want a product that "works" and if there's a group of folks that's proficient in developing/customizing it then I'm happy to have them do it. Or should I just stay away from developing on Wordpress period? Would love to hear your thoughts. On Mar 3, 12:11 am, Andy C <[email protected]> wrote: > And best yet, you'll get to submit the patches yourself :-) > > On Mar 3, 6:29 am, "michael.twofish" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'll take a slightly different tack than Rick, though I wouldn't > > contradict > > anything. > > > Habari won't meet your needs out of the box right now, and will > > require > > changes to make it work the way you want. But those changes aren't > > going to be > > horrible hacks, they're going to be the implementation of what will > > come > > eventually anyway. And best yet, you'd get to have some say in how > > those > > things work in core. > > > On Mar 1, 11:32 pm, rick c <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Welcome, craayzle. I hate to say it, but at this point in its > > > development, Habari may not be the way to go to meet your goals for > > > the site. While Habari can serve multiple sites from the same code > > > base, each site has to be created and installed individually. While > > > the creation and installation can be scripted, Habari currently has no > > > internal mechanism to do the creation. Once they are created, there is > > > currently no way to administer each of the sites centrally. While a > > > plugin to do so could be written, and is something I'd like to see, > > > the capability isn't built in. Nor, at this time, are sites that live > > > in subdirectories (i.e., mysite.com/myblog ) possible. One can make a > > > site appear as if it lives at such a location, but to the best of my > > > knowledge, only once per site. This functionality is intended in the > > > future. Improving Habari's multisite capabilities is the intended > > > focus of Habari 0.8, but it isn't possible now. > > > >http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Multisiteshowshowmultisite > > > installations are handled at the moment. If you look > > > athttp://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Installation#Predefined_Configuration > > > , you'll see how a pre-filled out configuration file can be used to > > > automate installation. > > > > Regarding some of the other features you listed, if plugins for the > > > functionality don't already exist ( take a look > > > athttp://habariproject.org/dist/plugins > > > ), plugins for most of it should be possible. > > > > Fima Leshinsky already pointed you to the list of Habari powered > > > sites. I don't know which of these are large or heavily customized. I > > > do know some individuals are using Habari in client work. Such work is > > > one source of the issues we find need improved with Habari. :) > > > > Rick > > > > On Mar 1, 1:18 am, craayzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > For the last couple of months I've been learning/developing on WPMU. > > > > It's been pretty painful. This post does a decent job describing that > > > > pain:http://www.phpvs.net/2009/12/08/an-exercise-in-wordpress-integration-... > > > > > I'm looking to build a site that, at it's core, is a cross between > > > > WPMU and Ning: a multi-site install of WPMU + Buddypress. More > > > > specifically, any user should be able to register for their own site > > > > (e.g. user1.domain.com) and on this site they can create as many blogs > > > > as they wish (e.g. user1.domain.com/blog1). I believe Habari supports > > > > this type of multi-site install. > > > > > In it's full maturity, the site will have (in order of priority) > > > > > * premium services with pay-pal integration > > > > * facebook/twitter activity feed integration > > > > * iphone/mobile phone support (both publishing and viewing) > > > > * social networking features > > > > * ad-revenue sharing > > > > > It's possible to put together a prototype of the above in WPMU and I'm > > > > getting close to shelling out $$$ to have someone develop it, but > > > > longer term Wordpress just doesn't seem the way to go. > > > > > Is Habari the right platform for me to build on? Can you point me to > > > > any "large" and/or heavily customized sites running Habari or _any_ > > > > sites running Habari for that matter? Anything else I should know > > > > before taking the dive? > > > > > Thanks in advance for reading and replying and great work so far to > > > > all the contributors, it looks like a great product! -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users
