Potential
- Profiles (no change)
- Setups
- Presets
- Configurations
- Configuration profiles
- Configuration setups
- Configuration presets
- Setup profiles
- Preset profiles
Why change?
- To distinguish with user profiles
| Publishing | Closed community | Open community | |
| How to add users? | Only by the admin | Only by the admin | Self-registration |
| Communication | few to many | Many to many | Many to many |
| Wiki | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Forum | No | Yes | Yes |
| Blog | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| User profiles | No | Yes | Yes |
Publishing / brochureware
If there is user-generated content (UGC) (like comments, it's clear what is official vs user-contributedOptions
- e-commerce
Closed community
Intranet, team collaboration, users do not registerWith one public section
Open community
Registration, collaboration: many to many
User profiles, collaboration, users register
spam protection
Behind the firewall