I've worked with BuddPress a little bit, I was looking at using it for a project. It's a hack on top of hack: wpmu is a fairly supported hack of wordpress, but buddypress seemed like a convoluted set of plugins on top of that. My main beef with it was that it pushed all the user tasks stuff to the front end themes, and the WordPress backend remained largely the unchanged. If you want to add new fields or models, you're stuck writing your own admin, forms, and doing the database updating, which just isn't something that should be necessary in 2010.
I ended up using WP with a custom plugin because I didn't need to do too much. But having looked at buddypress, if I needed something like that, I'd just roll my own with a contemporary web framework like RoR or django. -- Justin Heideman / New Media Designer / Walker Art Center justin.heideman at walkerart.org / 612.375.7545 On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Jim Spadaccini wrote: > The release date for WordPress 3.0 is early May. > > http://wordpress.org/development > > I've stayed out of this conversation (for reasons that Eric is aware of!) > but since the conservation seems to of value to the community. My two cents. > > We've built a lot of Web sites over the years with various CMS systems and > we've built sites from scratch too using Ruby on Rails, such as the > ExhibitFiles site (http://www.exhibitfiles.org). > > In the fall, we redesigned our portfolio site and built a site for our > multitouch framework for Flash and found the latest version of WordPress > really easy to work with. > > Also, we recently discovered BuddyPress (http://buddypress.org/), which has > a great of promise for building social networks. Does anyone out there have > any experience with this software package yet? > > Jim
