Unofficial First Look at Pligg 2 Electric Boogaloo

If you are interested in open source at all it is very likely you know that Pligg has been put up for sale. First a bit of the back story. It all started with a post on the DigitalPoint forum posted by a Pligg developer asking for an appraisal of the pligg.com website. He was told that the site is worth $10.000-$15.000 but if they include the script it might go as high as $150.000. On the 5th post the site was listed on Sedo with an asking price of $150.000. There is also an ad about the sale on Mashable. If they sold the current version of the script, then the value would have been much lower since it was released by Meneame under the Affero GPL license and already under public distribution. However a new bare bones CMS could increase the profits from the sale of modules and templates.

Enter Pligg 2 Electric Boogaloo. Pligg 2 Electric Boogaloo code name is inspired from the 1984 Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo movie, the sequel to the movie Breakin’. The WikiPedia entry is revealing.

Damon “AshDigg” Wirth the main developer of Pligg announced about the middle of last July that he started work on Pligg 2.0, and around the end of last August it was up and running on pligg.com being shown to prospective buyers. Pligg 2.0 was developed using the CodeIgniter framework. Smarty and the TemplateLite templating engines were dropped and performance improved.

For a look at the current Pligg development check out the Sourceforge Pligg projects on the SourceForge Subversion. The only project that is active is Pligg CMS. The Pligg 2.0 sources can be browsed in /branches/2.0 Unstable. The actual Pligg CMS is to be found in /branches/2.0 Unstable/system/application. The rest is the CodeIgniter framework. The blue template is called Fraxi and my guess is that the fraxi.com site will sell templates.

However, the SVN Pligg 2 doesn’t seem to be complete as you can see in this screen shot bellow:

It is running on a local server using the Pligg beta 9.8.2 database. There is no install and most of the features are either broken, or missing, including the admin. It seems to be only a partial/old subversion commit so as to keep it from spreading out on the net before the Sedo sale was finalized. What you see in the screen shot above is all there is, so don’t dream of putting it up on your site. Interesting nonetheless.

And here is the screen shot taken when Pligg 2 was live on Pligg.com:

When they released version beta 9.8.2 the "submit to Redit" icon and link were replaced by "submit to Pligg," and the Pligg 2 was pulled off the Pligg site and it was replaced by the old beta running on the demo. subdomain. Due to my lazyness for not posting this earlier, the only links I got are the Google cache links below:

google.pl
Pligg Upcoming
Pligg Upcoming
Pligg Upcoming Technology

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