Answer is simple - you have to create a networking site which answers to needs that no other website adresses, or answers them significantly better than any other website existing - so that when people go to your website, they won't want to use...

Michele, I will stay the whole weekend as well. I'm not sure wether it will change your plans :) Btw, I think live feed would be a very good idea.

I'll be definitely comming. Jeroen, if you need some help, I can also prepare a presentation for some Elgg-related topics. I sent you an email with details.

Ura, it's great to see your website online, it looks really good. I wish you luck with keeping it running :) Unfortunately right now we can't take new project, however I can recommend working with Ura :)

Jed, our email is info [at] vazco.eu . We dropped elggdev.com domain a month ago. Contact form just worked for me on all major browsers, please let me know in email which browser did you use and we'll investigate this asap.

Jed, I feel far from "dropping off the internet". We're not updating our store with new plugins, as we don't focus on plugin development, but rather development of whole Elgg-based websites, usually highly customized ones. I didn't get any query...

Edensan, unfortunately we don't have a plan to release forum plugin for Elgg 1.8 in OS version, at least not in a next month.  

Today we're launching a closed beta of a website we built on Elgg, Velocitychess.com. It's a speed chess gaming website, the most modern up to date, optimized to support huge traffic and thousands of games in the same time. It's built with Elgg and...

yes, you can

This is a great idea, it can well convince people to use Elgg as a framework.   I think it is important to have an option for community to post new websites and choose which ones are good, so that this showcase can contain new, better...

Ura, some of our optimizations are already merged into the core and are in Elgg 1.8.12. Some are waiting to be merged. Some (including those that give highest performance gain) are modifying Elgg too much to integrate them at this moment. We...

Ura, the increase with nginx won't increase performance by 4 or 5 times on live site. Biggest advantage of nginx is that it supports threads asynchronously. This gives some performance boost, but unless website is very specific, I expect increase...

We added tests for our high-load solution to original article. It occurs our solution supports up to 59 times more users than standard Elgg. Details are available in this article. Tests were performed on a website in beta stage, velocitychess.com,...

RJCalifornia, at some point Facebookchanged privacy policy. I think approx. 1-2 years ago they changed privacy system and you had to re-edit your data to make them stay private, as some data was made public by default. In case you have your data...