After writing our article on Pligg winning third place in the "Most Promising" category of Packt Publishing's CMS awards we received several emails and messages from readers alerting us to the fact that Pligg may not have been eligible for...
Author: Lincoln on November 30th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: packt awards, Pligg
A quick glance at Hotaru's demo site and you'd be forgiven for thinking it's just another open source Digg clone, similar to Pligg, Drigg and SocialWebCMS. First impressions can be deceptive though, because the moment you've installed Hotaru, it becomes...
Author: Lincoln on November 28th, 2009
Category: HotaruCMS
Tags: digg clone, HotaruCMS, social bookmarking, social news
Anyone who has had the displeasure of working with or owning a Pligg website will know exactly how bad the system actually is in a real world live web environment. Packt Publishing on the other hand seem to think that...
Author: Lincoln on November 26th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: cms awards, Pligg, pligg cms
Back in Feburary of this year we reported the news that Drigg's founding developer Tony Mobily would be leaving the project with immediate effect. Upon Tony's departure control of his various Drupal modules including Drigg were handed over to the...
Author: Lincoln on August 8th, 2009
Category: Drigg, Drupal
Tags: Drigg, Drupal, social news
Last week we decided to run a live install of Pligg v1.0.0 RC5 as a test to see if the usual spammers would come to visit it, lo and behold we were not disappointed with around ten spam registrations per...
Author: Lincoln on May 25th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: Pligg, pligg spam, spam
DesignFloat has suffered more than it's fair share of pligg related problems, hacks, database corruptions in the past so much so we wrote an article not long ago asking whether DesignFloat needed to move away from Pligg to survive. It...
Author: Lincoln on May 22nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: designfloat, designfloat hacked, Pligg, pligg hacked
Pligg are currently working towards releasing v1.0.0 of their system which is claimed to be an drastic improvement over previous versions of the system. Browsing their forums today though we came across an interesting post regarding a new Story URL...
Author: Lincoln on May 22nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: plig seo, Pligg, pligg 404, pligg v1.0.0
IndianPad is a social news website targeted towards the Indian language based community and based upon the Pligg system is suffering badly from the creation of spammy user accounts. What do these accounts look like and why are thy being...
Author: Lincoln on April 26th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: indianpad, Pligg, pligg spam, spam