BuddyPress 1.2 or Elgg 1.7, seeking recommendations?

In the end I decided to go with BuddyPress, because it's got more community traction and I'm already quite comfortable with writing WP plugins and themes. It looks like it should be quite easy to integrate the WP users database with my external one and bring them together in a JSON formatted API. BuddyPress does pretty much all I need it to out of the box and from my initial foray into it, the data field separation should come out pretty clean.

In the end I decided to go with BuddyPress, because it's got more community traction and I'm already quite comfortable with writing WP plugins and themes. It looks like it should be quite easy to integrate the WP users database with my external one and bring them together in a JSON formatted API. BuddyPress does pretty much all I need it to out of the box and from my initial foray into it, the data field separation should come out pretty clean.

Not to say Elgg wouldn't work either, I just haven't read enough good things about it in the limited time I have to come to a decision between the two. Still open to commentary from others!

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