This is the ORIGINAL houstonlively now through the door. The alter ego's okay, too -- a bit of a stirrer, but never turning things nasty or into a drama. But had to nudge you a bit there as you were wandering a bit off the topic.

The dating vs social networking script issue is a good point. I would have thought dating is a subset of social networking, so that the overall design of Dolphin should focus at a high (ie social networking, not dating) level. Because the resulting tool can then be see more customised to dating (or any other subset of social networking) from there, but you cannot do it the other way around.

Dolphin started out in the dating space. It was why I never found it until recently, because I wasn't looking for a dating tool. Personally, the evolution into a more social networking tool is very welcome. Looking forward to D7 ....
DeeEmm
I think it works fine as it is for a community site - the stuff relating to dating / looking for / matches etc can all be disabled. The only thing that is not easily disabled is the 'kisses' feature (Greetings) but this can easily be renamed to be more suitable (beer / kudos / whatever).

From a software perspective I would disagree that a social net script can more easily be modded to be a dating script than the other way around. IMO the dating script has more complex features - such as couples see more profiles and matchmaking - it is far easier to already have these features integrated and then simply disable them. To add them in after-wards is a lot of work.

DM
 
 
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