I have always had a fascination with community and surrounding yourself with the right people, real people. I also get bored with the regular blogging process of posting,comments, think of some new post repeat… that I always wanted ever since I seen all the wrongs done on sites like Blogcatalog is On LIFE SUPPORT check their alexa , digg (DIGG IS DEAD) and other sites where the owners have no real interest in their members/visitors.
In an ideal world I would like to have a network only the size where you know everyone and that would be tight and what I hope happens on DOFOLLOWLUV but on a bigger scale and testing various social networking scripts on bloggerluv I wanted to share a little about what I thought about each one and maybe you will decide to add some to your sites. I can add any php script for you 
I still have a copy of SMF forum on the original community page, it was cool and many cool bloggers joined but to me it was ugly and seemed to old school for me. Although I do like the fact that they offer packages you can grab to add to your site, sometimes a different one everyday. SMF has it’s uses but it’s easily hacked, the url’s aren’t pretty unless you do some .htaccess and code modification, overall I had fun messing with it and used it as way to see what people liked and didn’t.
I also added the pligg script to DOFOLLOWLINKLUV folder on bloggerluv, sites like Blogengage use pligg if all I wanted was a bookmarking site I would of built one using drupal not pligg 
Anyway what else is on there ?
Grou.ps excellent script bad servers and support they won’t be around long from my experience.
Oh the BIGGEST disappointment GROU.PS << I was so excited to come across this so called open source social networking script. There was no real open source and the best you could do is set up your GROUP and then in the buggy admin area add a cname and HOPE it pops up.
What is really going on in grou.ps is you had some people “create” a cool script, get funding and now the main dude travels around spending money and time on his lifestyle and the servers and their support SUCK.
Sad because they had a nice set up and it was real easy to msg your friends, add your links etc, their script still runs on the sub community domain it’s slow and it’s a temporary FIX for now. I want to and already have DISSED that dude after trying to reach out to them many times.
Why site owners are often JERKS is beyond me but I hope they continue because I plan on being grateful and friendly and COOL with everyone regardless of their finances and religion and country,you can’t call a site BLOGGER LUV then be some snob jerk that looks out for other lame GOOFS and shuns cool people real people. I still don’t get the whole online psychology as I see my friends tweeting scumbags and wasting time chasing GHOSTS 
Anyway I’m enjoying my life and finding peace in it all.
Check out the wordpress /buddypress install on BloggerLuv’s main domain Thanks
PS hey it keeps me out of trouble and unlike most of these so called Blogging Communities I actually LIKE to see people make it. I never look at another blogger as a meal ticket to me that’s pathetic so is Guest posting LOL
Do you have extra scripts /apps on your site ?
I’m getting ready to PIMP media wiki next
Thanks everyone I missed posting on here
Please feel free to share any scripts etc that you like and don’t like Thanks
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Hi guys,
John it has been a while since I read your blogs. Thanks for posting your blog today on Potpolitics.
Kind regards,
Sam
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Grou.ps does indeed suck big time, it’s such a shame really as it’s a great looking system that has real potential, if it wasn’t for their lack of support and speed issues
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Drupal can do almost everything most ‘social networking scripts’ like grou.ps or phpfox claim to do and it can do so in MUCH better fashion. I cheked your dofollowluv site, you should consider using a simpler template (your blog has a good one).
Did you try a ning network? I have only heard that they are good.
Hey big daddy, trying to keep posting interesting discussions on Blogger Luv. But will be out of the country for a few days on vacation. So, I will be more active when I return. Take care.
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I was wondering where you went, welcome back man.
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Try to keep posted on Blogger LUV interesting discussion.
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I like the buddypress idea it has intergration with facebook and twitter. Let’s role with it for awhile.
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It is too bad GROU.PS was just so darn slow. It is a great concept. Maybe someone will take that idea and roll with it. I like the current set up just fine. I like the links to Twitter. Keep up the awesome work!
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Although the Grou.PS script had quite some issues, it wasn’t that bad after all. It would be great if someone really puts more thought into the idea and creates a quality product.
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