mercmobily - 4:16 am on Jan 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hi,

I am the author of Drigg, so my opinion is biased.

I only really know Pligg and Drigg.

Pligg has been around for a long time. Its weaknesses are its db structure, the source code (not the cleanest) and the the fact that theming it is not the easiest thing to do.

On the bright side, Pligg has a large community, version 2. is coming soon, and there are several themes already developed.

Drigg is a newer project. It is now in active development. Its weaknesses are that it's heavy on your MySql server (that's true for Drupal), it's harder to configure (because you get a whole Drupal system!) and it takes a while to get around it.

The bright side is that it's really well coded, there is a strong separation between code and presentation, and it has a good db structure. ALSO, you get the full power of Drupal. You can have forums, and whatever else Drupal offers. Have a look at [drupal.org...] -- there are modules for all sorts of things you might possibly want.

Anything about scalability... meh. I don't think anybody has done a full comparison between the two, but at the same time there are some major sites based on Drupal out there, very major sites, and they seem to be managing OK.

Drigg has a huge list of feature requests which are slowly being worked on.

Bye,

Merrc.

[edited by: mercmobily at 4:23 am (utc) on Jan. 26, 2008]