New Elgg Support Community Coming Soon

October 3, 2008 in open source, Social Networking, Technology, Uncategorized | 6 comments

Tweets and shouts reveal that the core Elgg developers are on the cusp of introducing a new Elgg support community. They are responding to user requests for something better suited than Google Groups.

Dave Tosh tweeted that he was working on a new Elgg community site, while Marcus Povey mentioned working on the 1.1 release and a “funky community site.” Dave also indicated that in the new site users “will be able to create their own communities.”

I assume that they are working on an Elgg based community. I’m sure Elgg users and developers will enjoy working in a richer environment than Google groups. I think Elgg will provide a better environment with a variety of groups around particular aspects of Elgg use and development. I envision developer groups forming around particular plugin projects. Bookmarks, file repositories, forums, pages, and other resources would much enhance development of Elgg extensions.

Posts seeking help will hopefully be better routed rather than going adrift in the Google Groups, or tacked onto unrelated posts. This renders the uninitiated confused and those more experienced impatient.

In not doing so, there is a risk of fragmenting the Elgg community as individuals have already tried to create alternative forums to meet needs.

I look forward to seeing the new community. I hope it comes very soon as working with Google Groups has become more difficult as more extensions are being created. What do you hope to see in the new community?

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  1. Kam’s avatar

    Kam on October 3, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    Great news! This is just what the community needs…
    I personally find google groups choppy and hard to navigate.
    As an open source community the consensus should be on collaboration and developing elgg. An elgg based community with a forum and accessible issue tracking would be great for this.
    I’m sure the boys who masterminded elgg will do a marvelous job!

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  2. Christopher Clayton’s avatar

    Christopher Clayton on October 4, 2008 at 5:30 am

    Awsome news!
    cant wait too see it.

    As Kam said, google groups is hard to navigate.

    Also using Google Groups poses ALOT of spam issues if they continue using it. users can get the posts emailed to them, so spammers love it. if you join any large group you will recieve spam nearly every day. i hope elgg tackles this before it becomes a real issue.

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  3. Tom’s avatar

    Tom on October 4, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    You might have a look at the Forum of MODx (http://modxcms.com/forums). For sure not a full featured community site, but in practice a good forum beats the fragmentation of today. The topics are organized excellent…

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  4. Steve’s avatar

    Steve on October 4, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    @Kam @Christopher I’d have to agree that Google Groups are far from ideal. To be honest, they are terrible compared with Free and Open Source. I was kind of surprised they went that route. I hoped it was a temporary fix.

    @Tom SMF is great software. I use it myself for my Tie-dye forum.

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  5. Arturo Servin’s avatar

    Arturo Servin on October 5, 2008 at 4:50 am

    I would love an elgg community based on elgg. Just like the old classic elgg.

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  6. Steve’s avatar

    Steve on October 5, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    @Arturo That would certainly make sense! I’d like to see it too!

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