vb.org Archive - Best profile enhancement (myspace type software) & Blog

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Originally Posted by Alfa1 (Post 1192004)

Different boards will have different requirements for profile enhancements. Therefore I think it would be handy if we have one thread which lists all the possibilities. Paid and free. I have searched vb.com vb.org and several other places to find one list but could not find this.

So far I have found the following possibilities:

Zoints Local (free)
About Me, My Discussions, My Links, Instant Chat, My Photos My Interests, My Communities, My Network, Quick Comments, Ratings, My Blog, RSS Feeds, Social Actions and many more. drag and drop, style sharing, friends, connects profiles to other websites trough the Zoints network and lets your members search these.

Myspace profile (free)
although I couldn't get it to work properly it has css options, video, buddies, photopost/vba gallery intergration is possible, zodiac sign, vbjournal intergration, additional profile fields.

vS-Interactive Profiles (free)
Myspace-Style "Friend Requests", user ratings and comments, zodiacs, friendster-style profile field highlights, custom xss-proof css, support for avatars, Zodiac Sign
This is currently unsupported.

phpfox (paid)
Guestbook, Friends & Favorites, Personal Details block, Recent Visitors, Blogs, Gallery, Groups list, Contact Panel, Report User, Member Details

E friends (paid)
photo albums, member voting system, upload multimedia content, Write a testimonial, blog, articles, member rating system and much more.

vBlog (paid)
Still to be released. A alpha version of the blog part has been released. The profile enhancement & social networking part has to be coded. It's hard to say if it's going to be good or not. Upside is that it is not a third party add on. Downside is that it seems the blog seems pretty basic so far.

NuSpace (paid)
Also unreleased. Not much can be said on this. For features see here

I am not certain if vbspace is still available. I understand that the vbspace thread has gone down due to flaming. Please keep this thread clean.

There are several blog programs, but AFAIK none of them affect vbulletin's profile, so I have excluded them.

If you have others to add to this list, please post here. If you have experience with any of these programs please list the pro's and con's

VS Interactive profiles is an excellent choice, and the one I am using on my own forum at this moment, and have designed styles for. It has a decent array of features, and the possibilities to use CSS are pretty much endless depending on settings.

Zoints Local is a good alternative from what others have said, and seems a well put together piece of software.

The vBulletin official blogging and social networking add on looks to be amazing, but is quite a few weeks away from release, so you may want to try one of the others until it's release date regardless of it you want it or not.

phpfox is separate software from what I can tell, and expensive. Haven't heard too many complaints about it though.

People say AlstraSoftis awful, as seen by this Sitepoint topic:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=413772

I advise to stay away at all costs from their products and spend your money on other things (such as one of the other paid options here if you choose to do so).

Cannot comment on Nuspace, it's not been released.

Myspace profile is probably not a good idea, and the features are in either VS Interactive Profiles or Zoints.

Oh, and if you don't have the ability to have videos in profiles, you may want to use this Template Modification to allow so:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...outube+profile

I'm using that or something similar, to allow users to have 2 videos in their profile. A nice enough feature in my opinion.

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