Any one has experience with dolphin or elgg, social network software? Would you share your opinions?

elgg seems to be a light weighted, clean and simple framework. But its features are not so powerful. For example, its forums (group discussion) is not powerful and it is not easy to search etc.

dolphin is powerful, but it seems with too many restrictions. for example, it makes the date of birth, sex, profile as required. (I think it may be due to dophin was a dating site software originally.) I think I may be able to turn these fields to optional (anyone can advise on that?)

I would like a system that I can use to build a general social communities (not dating site).

I am evaluating elgg or dophin. easy to modify for general purposes social community vs. powerful features, etc.

Any advices?

Thanks!

    a year later

    Hey - I am in the same situation as you were when you posted this... did you get more information? did you make your mind about which is better?
    Thanks for your help!

      14 days later

      just try out with Ning.it is more user friendly

        Thanks fernades! I am going with elgg for now. I like how simple and clear the code is. It just seems to make sense for me. I can't use things like Ning.it as I need to do some heavy customization and have it privately hosted...

          16 days later

          I think you can try with iscripts socialware.This one is really good.Its features are very powerful.you can try with their demo version.I am satisfied with their service.
          May be this will help you.

          Refer www.iscripts.com for more products

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