CommunityEngine

I notice CE has a collection of pretty popular plugins under the hood. Are these plugins fairly easily "swappable" with other plugin solutions, or will CE not work right, or require a lot of hacking, without the included plugins?? For example, I'm not sure what type of authentication CE uses...so what if we went with the popular "restful-authentication" plugin from technoweenie? Does CE play well with other plugin solutions or is it not really recommended?...

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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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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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