05-10-2024, 06:26 PM
April 18th, 2012
What exactly is the purpose of this site and why do you want to create it? It's not worth trying to create a social network unless you have a very specific audience in mind and there's not an alternative that would work a lot better. If you want to do it for the novelty of it, it's unlikely that anyone would be interested in joining and no one wants to use an inactive social network.
A personal social network probably won't be able to host more then a few thousand active users before hosting costs and technical complexity would start to skyrocket. Video uploads would be out of the question.
The easiest option is Buddypress, which is a plugin for Wordpress and is what we use for our reenacting group so we don't have to require anyone to use Facebook. Even still, it's not that active all things considered.
Any website that requires a userbase is going to have a serious chicken and egg problem. At least with some types of sites, you can work diligently on creating content before you have users, but that doesn't work for social networks. You need to have an audience like a school or something that the network can serve.
When I created this forum, there weren't a huge number of alternatives out there and it was easy to pop up in search results in Google just by having content within the site and we were able to grow early on.
What exactly is the purpose of this site and why do you want to create it? It's not worth trying to create a social network unless you have a very specific audience in mind and there's not an alternative that would work a lot better. If you want to do it for the novelty of it, it's unlikely that anyone would be interested in joining and no one wants to use an inactive social network.
A personal social network probably won't be able to host more then a few thousand active users before hosting costs and technical complexity would start to skyrocket. Video uploads would be out of the question.
The easiest option is Buddypress, which is a plugin for Wordpress and is what we use for our reenacting group so we don't have to require anyone to use Facebook. Even still, it's not that active all things considered.
Any website that requires a userbase is going to have a serious chicken and egg problem. At least with some types of sites, you can work diligently on creating content before you have users, but that doesn't work for social networks. You need to have an audience like a school or something that the network can serve.
When I created this forum, there weren't a huge number of alternatives out there and it was easy to pop up in search results in Google just by having content within the site and we were able to grow early on.