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Building a community is all about ...

What do you think? What's the most important aspect of community-building?
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Hacking CommunityEngine?

Hey guys, just wanted to get opinions from the experts here.  I'm in the process of creating a pretty customized social network website. Should I just build it from the ground up on RoR, or should I actually start with something like CommunityEngine as a base? Does CommunityEngine only work like how it's built and you throw themes on top of it, or is it meant as a starting base of features that is totally...
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How difficult is it to change the theme?

This is a very nice looking theme, but how difficult will it be to change it? I must say, I am quite stoked that there is even a "theme" to begin with.
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Can we host this locally?

We need to build a custom application on top of community engine. Can we host it on our own servers?
Poll Have you hosted this website locally? Vote now!
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Excuse Me...Still Deciding...

Sorry, still need your advice. The social network I'm building has a bit more complexity, so wondering if Community Engine is a good starting point.  I will need 3 different user account types, and the 3 account types will have different features set (eg. one account type will not have access to the blogging feature, another account type will have custom built features, still another account type will not have a public profile and will...
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Events / Skills / Admin dashboard

hey, this is great. Just installed it and so far it's beyond my expectations (vs insoshi or lovdbyless) I saw in the code "events", "skills" (find an expert link), also I couldn't find an admin dashboard How do I activate/access those?
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custom Models and future CE migrations

I'm looking to override the Users model to fit multiple types of users (someone asked a related question, link below).  My question is, do you have any suggestions for how to handle future migrations from CE?  For example, I'm thinking if it something as simple as CE creates a new column (e.g. favorite_color) and as long as I don't delete any columns, things should migrate fine.  Is there any case I should watch out for...
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How do I install CE to my hostings.

I do not know where to start. I want to make a social site for games reviews, and I found CE that seems interesting(I been interested about ROR for several months but I never touched it.) I hope soeone could help me how to install it.
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What are clippings?

Hello. Can someone please explain what a clipping is, and how to create one? Thanks.
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