Help: Social Engine or PHPFox?

[blogcrash]

Hello.
I’m working as a consultant for an established internet company based in New York and we are researching for the best solution to convert an existing website – which I can not expose - in a Community with a Web Directory.

At this moment we are trying to decide between Social Engine and PHPFox, but also considering other solution.

Our website has a huge traffic, and we are concern about some Social Engine reviews that we saw online: several bugs, bad support and (the most important) very slow speed when we have more than 50/100 users online.

Since during the day for us it’s usual to have +/- 3.000 users online, we would like to have your honest opinion on your Social Engine and PHPFox experience, and which platform should we use.

Thanks in advance

[4u-domains]

I find social engine a bit of a pain and very slow to load on my site.

[CureCancer]

I've used phpfox and not reliable. Horror stories are posted and indexed on google. Both options are not custom and you need to develop a custom solution for your community!

[KING dot NET]

I like both of them, though I only tried phpfox. It is a nice script but I have issues when upgrading so I decided to outsource the platform and changed my community using NING!

It is up and running for the pass three years.

Send me email if you want to see my community.

Regards,
EM @ king.net

[Tia Wood]

Why not use a Wordpress based solution? It's customizable and can handle large sites.

[blogcrash]

Hi everyone.
Thanks for all the tips.
My clients already have a solution for this.

Thanks once again for all the tips

[ianccc]

Yikkes, that BlackMonk goes from $2222 to $6666


Just like Tia said: use Wordpress

I am using GeoThemes Theme for Wordpress, look at http://phillyscene.com/ its an $87 theme

~ian

[elius]

Yikkes, that BlackMonk goes from $2222 to $6666


Just like Tia said: use Wordpress

I am using GeoThemes Theme for Wordpress, look at http://phillyscene.com/ its an $87 theme

~ian

did you customize it or is your design also part of the theme? Your site is quite different from the demo on their site. Looks really nice, though.