i use multiple plugins from the elgg site, customstyle, river activity 3C, hypealive to name a few.  Most work great just from the download but i tend to mod alot to customize things my way

@Mark Wow! That's a fantastic network! I'm very impressed!

@Speedysnail6 Cool!

And as always, ours:

http://www.milocker.com

=D

i have a site online that's running 1.7.8 elgg.. its a bit broken in places..
i'm presently making another version with 1.8.8.
you can see it here: http://test.infiniteeureka.com/videos/play/ura_soul/10382/yoga-boat-pose

i'm still theming and coding it, you can see some of whats possible with the plugins and still a fairly standard layout for the site content.

Our site is currently in Beta. While most people who use Elgg make their site closed source to their users, we allow our users to help out with some of the files on Github. https://planetzuda.com and our github is https://github.com/planetzuda/PZ_Core/tree/PZ_Core/Documents/GitHub/pz_core/mod

@rjcalifornia Thanks! I really appreciate that!  We're working hard with Sphinx Search and Google Map API to get it released in the next few weeks

Does anyone know how I can get a website like meetup .com built??

Is elgg a good way to go? Are you really familiar with meetup .com??

Any other recommendations?

Does anyone know how I can get a website like meetup .com built??

Is elgg a good way to go? Are you really familiar with meetup .com??

Any other recommendations?