What is Open Source Social Network ( OSSN )?
Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is an open source, PHP-based social networking software and platform. It provides a fully-featured framework and components for building social networks and community-driven websites similar to Facebook.
Some key features and capabilities of OSSN include:
- User profiles with customizable registration fields
- Friending/Following between users
- Posting textual, photo, video, and other media updates
- News feed showing friends' activities
- Events management with RSVP tracking
- Public/private/secret groups with customizable join criteria
- Real-time chat messaging and notifications
- Access control and moderation features
- Theming support and drag-and-drop widgets for UI customization
- Multi-language support
- Mobile-ready and responsive layouts
OSSN is highly scalable and designed to handle heavy loads for large communities. Its modular codebase facilitates developing custom features and extensions. OSSN can be self-hosted on one's own server with open source LAMP/LEMP stack or deployed on cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
The software is released under GNU General Public License v3 and maintained by a community of open source developers and contributors.