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The irony of SWCMS accusing Pligg of lifting 2 lines of code from their subversion since SWCMS lifted the entire thing from Pligg. I’ve been using the new version of pligg and it’s by far more advanced than SWCMS ever wished they could be. A complete security overhaul, database speed improvements, and a bunch of new features. I also think it should be noted that more people downloaded the new version of Pligg in the first 24 hours than SWCMS had for an entire year. The truth is SWCMS is nothing more than an outdated, unsecured beta version of pligg. I had hope for the SWCMS fork but they dropped the ball and the real coders all stayed with pligg.
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Open source is open source and anyone can grab anyone else’s code, so this is a wash by me. I’ll bet most forks have a back and forth over the code.
I’m game for a fair compare and contrast of Pligg and SWCMS, but let’s get more specific. Is one more secure than the other? Then tell me how. If one has more and better features, then lay it out. Who are the real coders that stayed and which ones went? In essence, please substantiate what you are saying.
What I do know is that I am finding some of the tools I need to make this work for a K12 setting on the SWCMS side and Nick has offered to build the other one I need, comment moderation. I haven’t been able to find these moderation capabilities in Pligg. If I am wrong, set me straight.
But do me a favor first. If you are a known entity in the Pligg/SWCMS world, how about using a name that everyone will recognize?
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That’s why I love open source….but I do hate the drama.
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reddit use git for the repository.
git is similar to svn.this one line will fetch all reddit sourcecode:
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Update: When development on Social Web CMS started to dry up, I offered to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. Rather than hang existing users out to dry, we agreed that this was the way to go because we could implement all the features that were difficult to do when bound to the original Pligg framework, and provide an upgrade path for existing users.
In February 2010, the reinvented SWCMS, called “Hotaru CMS”, came out of beta. Unlike its predecessor, it’s not limited to social bookmarking. The entire CMS is plugin-powered, including post submission, comments, user registration and management sections for users, posts and comments. Everything is PHP-based and plugins and themes share more in common with WordPress than Pligg. As I write this, there are over 50 plugins already developed, and not just by me. Hotaru is well documented and we’ve had eight different people use our tutorials to make plugins so far.
I remember Steve needing more control over submitted content in order to use it in a K12 setting. Hotaru CMS has a permissions system which enables admins to turn functions on and off for individual users at any time. There are also over half a dozen predefined user “roles”, each with their own set of editable permissions. The admin can choose which role to assign to new members, including “undermod” which puts all submitted content into a moderation queue.
Alternatively, you could allow new users to submit content off the bat, but put their first X number of posts and comments into moderation. There are also options for posting frequency and quantity. Further options for notifying admins, super moderators or moderators of submitted content by email, make Hotaru well-suited to the classroom environment.
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