MultiUser Blog system recommendations

[dollars5]

Hello All,

I am trying to provide each registered user of my upcoming site with the ability to have his very own blog/ use his existing blog that will feed content to pligg site as and when it gets posted.

For URL content feed - I see there is a progressing work by Dravis in Mod: Users Can Add Their Own RSS Feeds http://www.pligg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4261

But now for allowing users to have their very own blog - first I need to zero on to a multi-user blogging system - please do recommend me on this, I can work to create a bridge between them to get the needed system, then use the above mod to accomplish what I really want to.

Pls do suggest me a multiuser Blogging system.

TIA.

[theworld]

I use b2evo and am quite happy with.

[dollars5]

Thanks.

b2evolution looks kewl.

I was looking into AROUNDme, Elgg and Wordpress MU - but their installations required a parameter called VHOST that I skipped them - will compare them all.

And looking for recommendations still..

[richrf]

I am also looking around. ExpressionEngine looks good as a more comprehensive and flexible CMS. For pure blogging, I think I would go with WordPress MU right now. But I am also still investigating.

Rich

[dollars5]

Just found one more named ning (but you cannot run on yuor very own server ).

So now i have to make a decision between the following:
WordPress MU
b2evolution
AROUNDme
ExpressionEngine
Elgg

[moonomo]

I'd installed WordPress MU on my server and hope to get working on that soon to make it something better!

I think you may go with WPMU since there tons of themes, mods available and no doubt you can introduce your user to very special blog system or community.

[Simon]

One more "vote" for WPMU - yes it takes a little bit of tuning sometimes, but once that's done its far more comprehensive than other similar systems i've tested. And as was said above, you have a good support community and plugin framework going!

I suppose it depends on your goals though - feature potential vs simplicity etc...

[dollars5]

There is some recent interest in this topic, so some detailed information of my research that I gathered on this - sharing for others: if anyone find anything interesting or willing to participate - do let know in here.

WordPress MU
Site: http://mu.wordpress.org/
Popular sites using: http://www.wordpress.com , http://www.lemonde.fr/web/blogs/0,39-0,48-0,0.html , http://edublogs.org/ (neat, clean UI, clear nav)
Features: blogging alone, similar to wordpress.com , multiuser-blogging (collaborative blogging)
Expansion: Most features can be added via pluggins - but not sure if Wp plugins work here, community is not as active as that of WP.org, very few new versions recently
Requirements: Apache, mySQL, PHP

Elgg
Site: http://elgg.org/
Popular sites using: http://community.brighton.ac.uk/ , https://tugll.tugraz.at/ , http://webapps.saugus.k12.ca.us/community/
Features: Tons - blogging, podcast, Social networking(myspace clone??), communities, collaborative blogging, friends networking
Expansion: tons of plugins (http://elgg.org/mod/plugins/ ), active development - recent new release, clean permalink structure is absent
Requirements: Apache, mySQL, PHP

b2evolution
Site: http://b2evolution.net/
Popular sites using:
Features: blogging, (collaborative blogging??? - could not confirm this feature)
Expansion: plugins supported(http://plugins.b2evolution.net/), active development - recent new release
Requirements: Apache, mySQL, PHP

AROUNDme
Site: http://www.barnraiser.org/software.php
Popular sites using:
Features: blogging, collaborative blogging, spaces (personal webpages), events mgmt, wiki
Expansion: via modules, no recent dev news, no active community present, and many have reported it to be hard to install and unable to get support on it too
Requirements: Apache, mySQL, PHP

ExpressionEngine
Site: http://expressionengine.com/
Popular sites using: http://www.bc-interaction.org/ , http://www.poweredbygamespy.com/
Features: Tons - blogging, collaborative blogging, email, templating
Expansion: modules/pluggins, Active but most expansion would require to pay $ , active development, user support is paid.
Requirements: Apache, mySQL, PHP

[Daidy]

There is a guy here : Smatei, that is working currently on a integration between Pligg and Elgg. Here is what he said in this topic : Elgg Pligg integration :

Originally Posted by smatei

Personally I would back up fronting elgg with pligg, since the amount of work required to network the users and create the community interfaces in pligg is so much more laborious than changes to be operated on elgg. In terms of specifics, I think that a lot can be achieved if:

we add a rating system to Elgg, such that any Elgg posting gets a vote,
if there is a master list of most recent posts on an Elgg install n which you can vote without browsing the system, and
if we changed the Elgg front page (and make it the default for any entry page for any user) to reflect the most successful article posted in Elgg.

All of course using Pligg technology.

The system would be diffferent than the Digg/Pligg philosophy, but so much more interesting. I work for a major American University and I just got some seed money for extending Elgg in this and other directions. If anyone here is interested in working with us, please let me know.

It could be perhaps a good solution for what you are looking for...

[dollars5]

Aagh, must have missed, but thanks for noting it in here - will follow up over there..