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Ning (website) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Ning is an online social media network platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks. Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini and launched in October 2005. By June 2011 there were over 90,000 social websites running on the Ning Platform. History Ning started development in October 2004 and launched its platform publicly in October 2005. At its launch, Ning was a free-form platform for the development and hosting of open-source "social applications". The source code for Ning applications was available to users so that anyone could fork a Ning application, modify its PHP code and run it as their own. In late September 2006, Ning narrowed its focus to offering a group website, a photos website, and a videos website for people to copy and use for any purpose. These three templates were later superseded by a single customizable application aimed at enabling anyone to easily create their own...

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[–] rimu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I have bitter memories of Ning. In 2008 a community group I was in clung to their Ning site despite me building them a far superior option. The community split between the two. In 2010 when they removed the free tier my warnings about enshitification and reliance of corporate platforms was finally vindicated but we'd already lost momentum by then.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

We tried this for an org I worked for at the time. Nobody fucking used it.