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 🙂
It’s also worth mentioning that we look at many approaches for free hosting and even though we had some generous offers, there would still be a significant outlay off both development time and cost, which made it impossible for us.
Shame I know, but that’s where we are and we hope it doesn’t detract too much from the main purpose of the site which is to encourage for us all to find and make new SharePoint friends. I have already got 10-15 that I would love to have a beer with at the next conference.