I am hoping the Drigg user community keeps on supporting the forums and participating, until a someone can take the reigns of all the solid work that Tony has already done. Has anyone heard of anyone taking over the main development responsibilities as yet?

I have not used it much and there were a few limitations however it was something which made the package quite ideal. You can see a site using it in the url attached to the name.

Yes, may be I should reconider SWCMS.

One thing that I found about SWCMS is that they don’t have too many templates to choose. But pligg got so many pretty templates. Do you know how hard it’s to convert pligg template to SWCMS template?

I read a lot of your posts and learn that the developers in pligg is not really good. But I just found a post saying something bad about SWCMS: http://socialwebcms.blogspot.com/2009/03/when-open-source-goes-bad-socialwebcms.html Do you think that’s true?

I would ask yourself which features do you really need?.

If you simply want a digg clone system thats easy to maintain, fast and low on resources consider SWCMS.

If your plan is to have a digg type site with more advanced features like social networking, forums, blogs and just about anything else you can think of consider Drigg. Once you start adding all the other modules to drigg it become pretty database heavy though, we tend to you memcache etc and other techniques with large drupal drigg sites for clients that run on multiple servers with load balancers etc.

A standard drigg install however simply used as a digg type site runs pretty well on a single dedicated low end server in our experience.

It really depends what your projects requirements are, both are great systems in there own right.

Hope that helps

I just asked a prorgrammer to finish my drigg site themeing and plan to open the site to the public. But after hearing such a news, I just wonder whether should I switch to SWCMS instead. That’s a real big question.

Besides the main developer left, I usually found the speed of SWCMS is a bit faster than drigg. May be the whole purpose of SWCMS is doing a digg like platform, but drigg is a whole CMS platform, so that’s why it makes thing a bit slow.

Lincoln, I also read your artilce about SWCMS is the best platform so far. So what’s your opinion? So I stay or switch?

At the moment the drigg system is stable and with additional modules can be expanded to great extent. As you mention the development not being added to with new features however makes it hard to recommend at the moment, although it is a great stable system.

With the lack of certainty over drigg’s development i would say look closely and play around with both SWCMS and Drigg and see which system you prefer, whether drigg development will pick up again is at the moment an unknown fact which should be taken into consideration in your choice.

Mike