twister vs BuddyPress

twister

twister core / daemon (by miguelfreitas)

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. (by buddypress)

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twister		BuddyPress
	Project
1	Mentions	15
1,419	Stars	225
-	Growth	2.2%
0.0	Activity	9.3
3 months ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
C++	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

twister

Posts with mentions or reviews of twister. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Twister: Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Microblogging
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2022

BuddyPress

Posts with mentions or reviews of BuddyPress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.

Any easy way for users to register in wordpress and can upload text, images, links etc facebook style?
1 project | /r/Wordpress | 22 Feb 2023

BuddyPress - https://buddypress.org/
Looking for Facebook/Nextdoor alternative for Civic League
2 projects | /r/nonprofit | 19 Feb 2023

The final thought that comes to mind is BuddyPress, a plugin for WordPress sites. A pretty decent option if you already have a WordPress site setup.
Child care - matching parents with foster parents
1 project | /r/Wordpress | 25 Jan 2023

As you're building a community site to allow parents and foster parents to create their own user profiles and potentially interact with each other, buddypress can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
Best way to create a community website
2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 10 Jan 2023

I'd probably be remiss if I didn't also mention buddypress, which some like for creating a social/community space based on WordPress. I much prefer a forum, but you should at least look into buddypress a little.
Can Wordpress help me make a blog (image below explains) where users can select topics they’re interested in, add these topics to their profiles, have a calendar with important dates, author profiles and more. The image will explain more
1 project | /r/Wordpress | 14 Dec 2022

Yes you can make the site in Wordpress. Some development work needed for sure. Please check Buddypress https://buddypress.org/ This a free plugin by Automattic.
New theme system is incoming! Basically you can create iOS & Android mobile apps or even Windows & MacOS programs with.. a WordPress Theme! You can self-host your data in your server.
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Dec 2022

My long-term plan: Adding BuddyPress support ( https://buddypress.org/ ) so basically wordpress+quasar social system with groups, forums, private chats etc. Adding WooCommerce support ( https://woocommerce.com/ ) so e-commerce..
New theme system is incoming! Basically you can create iOS & Android mobile apps or even Windows & MacOS programs with.. a WordPress Theme!
4 projects | /r/Wordpress | 2 Dec 2022

Adding BuddyPress support ( https://buddypress.org/ ) so basically wordpress+quasar social system with groups, forums, private chats etc.
Any ideas for the self hosted portal: L&D, news, team structure with AD integration?
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 17 Nov 2022
Ask HN: Is there a self-hosted alternative to Facebook Groups?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2022

You can try Buddypress for WordPress, it should be easy to make a small fb clone. https://buddypress.org/
Nextdoor replacement?
1 project | /r/WordPressThemes | 17 Jul 2022

I've never used either, but there's BBpress and BuddyPress from the makers of WordPress: https://bbpress.org/ https://buddypress.org/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing twister and BuddyPress you can also consider the following projects:

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.

HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.

Vanilla Forums - Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.

Elgg - A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL

Reddit

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.

Pump.io - Social server with an ActivityStreams API

Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀

phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.