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I really didn't understand the pyramid scam part of this article, but many of the other points that it makes are totally true. My company got bit when they dis

I really didn't understand the pyramid scam part of this article, but many of the other points that it makes are totally true. My company got bit when they disabled access to the php source code without warning back in the fall. We had customized a Ning site fairly heavily. Also they used to have a REST api to access the data that was stored in their "Ning Content Store". I'm not sure when they disabled access to that but before they did it was barely usable anyway. It was full of undocumented bugs that would cause your operations to fail.

Tichy 17y ago
I wonder what benefits does Ning provide? Surely by now there should be open source projects covering the same set of functionalities? I think you can not even take your account from one Ning network to the next?
- jonknee 17y ago
  At least these days a Ning account is global--I just signed up for a Ning powered site a few weeks back and it was made clear early on that the login would work for any Ning site.