Insoshi social networking platform

Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!

Since Insoshi is open source, you can download the code from our GitHub repository and make your own social network. Then stay in touch by joining the Insoshi developer site—which is powered by Insoshi!

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Feed_screenshot_with_shadow Insoshi home page with activity feed

Built with Ruby on Rails

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Insoshi is brought to you by Michael Hartl, author of RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails, so contributors should know Rails—or be willing to learn!

Current Insoshi features

Insoshi is under active development, and already has a robust feature set:

  • Activity feeds
  • Profiles with photos and comment walls
  • Connections/friending
  • Discussion forums
  • Blogs with comments
  • Messaging, including read/replied/trashed
  • Search for profiles, forums, and messages
  • Admin panel with site preferences
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An Insoshi profile page
Contacts_screenshot_with_shadow The contacts page

Resources

Here are some useful links if you want to get involved with the Insoshi project:

Documentation wiki | Google Group | GitHub repository | Lighthouse issue tracker

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