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Oxwall
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Elgg
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What is the most useful project you've ever worked on?
It's this: https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg
It's pretty long in the tooth now - it's pretty old! But there's an amazing community and new core team that still keeps it up to date.
- Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
- Elgg – open-source social networking engine
- Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
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is there a CMS that produces social networks or communities?
Elgg. https://elgg.org/
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What does r/php think about Elgg 10 years later?
[Elgg](https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg) is an open source social networking engine, that received bad opinions on r/php ten years ago.
- Please help a girl out 😘
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DIY Nextdoor
Maybe something like ELGG could be a base depending on your skills. I still was unhappy with that and started down a custom route but stagnated due to the time sink.
- What are the more unknown frameworks you ever used?
- Exotic/unknown frameworks?
What are some alternatives?
phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
OSSN - Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a social networking software written in PHP. It allows you to make a social networking website and helps your members build social relationships, with people who share similar professional or personal interests. It is available in 17 international languages.
BuddyPress - BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Anahita - Anahita is a platform and framework for developing open science and knowledge sharing applications on a social networking foundation.