looking for web-based user comment engine

[DaveC426913]

I'm looking for an engine to form the core of my website. The website will have a database that users fill with comments etc. and are searchable by lots of metadata. It's not a blog, as I do not provide the content, the users do.

Let me see if I can propose a hypothetical example:

Say it's a media review site, where users come and post their own review of some movie or song or DVD or whatever. There is lots of metadata attached, such as date, medium, geo-location, site etc. Other users might search for all references to this media at this geo-location/site. Or they might just read all the newest.

I could write it myself, but providing rich features would get to be a pain fairly quickly. Also, scalability would be troublesome.

The s/w could start off relatively basic, and I could worry about scalability down the road.

Oh, and I would not be totally adverse to inexpensive solutions.

Suggestions?

 

[smah]

Maybe you could start with a portal system or wiki & customize the available features to suit your needs. Try a few at

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

 

[CoreyBryant]

Maybe even a forum as such like WebWizForums or vBulletin might suit your needs.

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