I've got a nuke site running
here. This is on a shared box [FreeBSD on some sort of sketchy clone], with about 30-40 other active sites.
The good:
- very easy to set up [took all of about 10 minutes]
- very polished slashdot clone
- integrated bboard system, similar to UltimateBB
- Polls
- Built-in search capability
- potentially large group of developers who are interested in extending nuke into something more than a slashdot ripoff.
- Some "add-on" modules available (for example, the DMOZ page at my site.)
The bad:
- MySQL only. Not a problem for small/silly sites like mine, but I shudder to think of what would happen in a high-volume situation.
- Not many external modules/extensions, though more may come in the future.
- Apparent problems with the community -- the main phpnuke.org site was down for almost a week (DB crash?) This was a very embarrassing gaffe for mandrake.
The bottom line: if you need to put up a slashdot clone quickly, you could do worse than nuke. But I wouldn't attempt to push the envelope with it, until the issues mentioned above are addressed.
