None of you may be interested but here are my two cents anyways.

Did Pligg place third and win $1,000 because of it’s flawless…

1. Constant and uncontrollable spam submissions.
2. Drastically poor support.
3. Less than speedy resolutions to security and bugfixes.
4. What would seem like 100’s of disgruntled sick of the project users.
5. Paid modules and templates for an unstable and poorly coded core.
6. Complicated theme system that no beginner, intermediate or expert can be bothered to develop or maintain themes for.
7. Very little if any project transparency where development is concerned.
8. Poor administration, management features with some that feel like an afterthought and make what should be simple task damn near impossible at times.

After using and developing for systems like Drupal, Wordpress or Joomla Pligg feels positively amateur, poorly devised and frustrating in comparison. Needless to say i wont be using pligg again as it’s just too time consuming to administrate or fix each week or update when it breaks.

As the author stated packt definitely did not use this system for a week in a real life situation, from personal experience it wouldn’t have come third and they would also have very little hair remaining if they had.