1. You can’t afford a $10/mth hosted LAMP account
2. You are savvy enough to code in ning’s PHP class library, but not savvy enough to download some other open class library to your $10/mth hosted LAMP account
3. You prefer being locked into ning’s proprietary and non-portable library which means you’re stuck hosting at ning forever
4. The “a few clicks” thing is great if the app you want to build is a clone of the exact same app someone else wrote before. But then why not just use their app? Oh, and did I mention you can’t take the app and move it off ning, ever.
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Yeah, interesting if:
1. You can’t afford a $10/mth hosted LAMP account
2. You are savvy enough to code in ning’s PHP class library, but not savvy enough to download some other open class library to your $10/mth hosted LAMP account
3. You prefer being locked into ning’s proprietary and non-portable library which means you’re stuck hosting at ning forever
4. The “a few clicks” thing is great if the app you want to build is a clone of the exact same app someone else wrote before. But then why not just use their app? Oh, and did I mention you can’t take the app and move it off ning, ever.
I’d like to see a Ning built using Ruby on Rails.
It seems like you’d be able to write much simpler “plugins” or mini-apps in Ruby/Rails.