The good news, BuddyPress is a Wordpress MU plugin and because of it you basically install it with the click of a button through the admin section. The bad news is, WordPress MU is a simple system for launching a practically limitless network of blogs.
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Tags: BuddyPress, WordPress, bbPress, Web Design

As mention in my last BP post, I finally got the three components (WP MU, BP and bbPress) to work together allowing me to evaluate the system. It was not without running into problems, the biggest one was the integration between WP MU and bbPress since both are actually stand-alone systems.
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Tags: BuddyPress, bbPress, Web Design

As mention before one of my choices was to base my site on the Insoshi project, an open-source social networking platform based on RubyOnRails, since I had played around with its predecessor, RailsSpace. However, as good as the Insoshi looked, and its code base being very clear because of the Rails’ MVC architecture, I decided against it.
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Tags: WordPress, BuddyPress, RubyOnRails, bbPress, Web Design