plonesocial.microblog 0.2

Simple microblogging in Plone

Contents

• Introduction

• plonesocial.microblog

  • status

• Plonesocial

• Contributors

• Changelog

Introduction

Plonesocial.microblog is part of the plonesocial suite.

This package provides a building block for Plone integrators who want to create a custom social business solution in Plone.

If you’re an end-user looking for a pre-integrated solution, you should install plonesocial.suite instead.

plonesocial.microblog

Plonesocial.microblog uses plone.app.discussion to store microblog status updates in an annotation on the Site Root.

This component provides only the status update form and storage. To display the stored microblog messages, use plonesocial.activitystream in combination with plonesocial.microblog, or install the full plonesocial.suite.

Plonesocial.microblog provides a microblogging solution for Plone using core content types only, without any external dependencies. It does not require an external service and can be set up and run with a normal Plone buildout configuration.

This simplicity also has its downside: this native solution will not be as scalable as a solution that uses an external service. Take a look at the jarn.xmpp.* or collective.kwetter solutions for large-scale microblogging in Plone with very many users.

That said, the intention is to make this native solution as fast and as scalable as possible. Work is currently in progress to introduce plone.app.async support.

status

Alpha. This package is under active development and changes in backward-incompatible and forward-incompatible ways.

Async support is under development but currently breaks. Normal installation without plone.app.async works just fine.

Plonesocial

Plonesocial consists of:

plonesocial.suite

An out-of-the-box social business experience integrating all plonesocial.* packages. If you’re an end user, this is what you’re looking for.

plonesocial.microblog

Status updates

plonesocial.activitystream

Lists content changes, discussion replies, and status updates

plonesocial.network

Follow/unfollow of users

plonesocial.like

Favoriting of content

plonesocial.buildout

Developer buildout. Not a Python package. Intended for Plonesocial developers only.

Contributors

Guido Stevens, Author

Changelog

0.1dev (unreleased)

• Package created using zopeskel [Guido Stevens]