Alrighty then.  I've been searching around for the best way to set up a cummunity base on this site.  Most are incredibly buiggy and/or not in the slightest bit supported.  One I found, Joomunity, shows promise... but again, no support.  I played around with it a few months back, but it gave me problems from the getgo, so I gave up on it.  I like a module that's going to work out of the box, with minimal customization.  As it turns out, this Joomunity component is being dropped for a new CMS-type project called Tuiyo, I believe, although information about this project has been equally elusive.  You see, I had these hopes I'd be able to build the website I have in my head with just a few plugins, but one simply cannot count on third party apps playing well together, even if they're supposedly stand-alone modules.  Joomunity/Tuiyo has a great look and ease of use, and they say a release is just around the corner.  Heh, but that was in February.  

And then there's Commmunity Builder.  It has the highest user cound, and is the most popular community component in the Joomla Extensions directory.  It appears to be mostly free as well.  Documentation, however, isn't.  For any help whatsoever, one must pay a subscribtion fee of around $32 US.  Many of the 3rd Party plugins I've some across say they're CB compatible, including a very cool Member Cloud.  CB seems to be fairly well supported and..

So what's the problem?  I've tried this before, and ended up borking the site so badly I had to wipe the slate clean and start over.  There was a problem in that the Main user database didn't sync correctly with our already existing forum db, and I found myself in a position where I couldn't log in to either.  Bad juju's, Batman.  

Ah well, why stress?  Tuiyo isn't out yet, and may not be for some time.  I haven't been happy with the gallery apps I've tried, and our forum is nicely stashed away in a nonconflicting location.  Ok, Community Builder - here I come!