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Community Builder

Joomla social networking and subscription management software

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Founded in 2004, Community Builder is a professionally managed open source project for building member communities on Joomla. The project is maintained by a fulltime core team and funded through paid add-ons, paid services and donations. The Joomlapolis website itself hosts over 570,000 registered members and a forum with more than 295,000 messages.

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