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I'm dev开发者_开发知识库eloping a user-generated content site.

Note it's not a blogging system, forum, wiki or any of those shrink wrapped things. It'll have it's own specific forms and content niche, so I'd like the power to tweak everything basically.

The method of authenicating users will likely be 3rd-party ie open id, facebook, twitter, etc. So the system would need to allow me to hook into another api for this purpose.

Anyone know a CMS built for user generated content like this?

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I'm confused... first you mention you're a developing a CMS then later you ask what premade solution works?

The closes you can get is drupal, well, even for pre-made system there is always something to "modify". Although I think James forgot to mention, Drupal has quite a steep learning curve and very long handbook so prepare yourself to take it slow and practice.

Also, it would be nice to know what programming language are you writing the web application? So we can provide more suggestions under that category.

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Have you seen Agility CMS? It has a UGC module that allows you to build custom content types for your user submissions and then allows you to hook the logins in with Facebook Connect or other provider.

It's based in ASP.NET

www.agilitycms.com

I happen to be with the company, so I can answer any questions you have :)

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You've basically eliminated every CMS under the sun by insisting that no pre-made system could possibly handle the types of content you want...

But even so, I can still suggest two systems that might be configurable enough to do whatever it is that you need.

The first is Drupal. It's a CMS, written in PHP. It has a very very configurable and extendable system of content types (check out the Content Creation Kit), and has a huge range of pre-written modules and plugins (even the CCK has its own plugins).

Because of its flexibility, Drupal powers a huge range of sites - everything from single-author blogs, through community forums, up to http://whitehouse.gov. The Drupal site has a case studies page which lists many different types of sites built on Drupal.

If Drupal isn't flexible enough for you, you probably need to stop thinking about a CMS and start thinking about a Web Framework - Wikipedia has a comparison table to help you find one in your preferred language. Personally, I've only used Django; but Ruby on Rails and Grails are also popular.