Hi guys,
If you’re building a new community (of which there already are quite a few), then why choose to create a site which is NOT built in SharePoint? Sorry, but I really don’t get that. Especially with all the new social features in 2013 I would expect all community sites to adopt 2013 as soon as possible. But that’s just my humble opinion 🙂
Hi Jasper,
This is a very good question. I will tell you the reasons:
1. The first important reason is hosting costs. Me and Mark are paying for hosting & domain out of our pockets.Also, you can’t make an office 365 public site and allow people to be members, licensing costs would kill us.
2. SharePoint blogging engine isn’t perfect, and that’s why people like Joel Oleson are moving from SharePoint to WordPress.
3. Ning has built in features for building a community already and there is not much need for custom development.
