A post of general interest I suppose.
I've tested and experimented with various plugins and themes, hacks I've stayed away from for future compatibility reasons, should and when new versions are released.
I'm a keen believe in simplicity and won't be offering my users every single theme available or every single plugin, well perhaps simplicity should also be lazy and logical at the same time, as I'm not wanting to spend hours and hours updating new plugins, or finding they become defunct later on, and having to code absolutely everything myself.
So the question of general interest is.............
What plugins do you use and why do you prefer them.
I see a lot of people going for the BBPress forums, personally I don't like em a great deal, theres a lot of messing about or so it seems if you want to make them run with MU flawlessly, so my other options was WP-Forums from:
http://www.fahlstad.se/wp-plugins/wp-forum/
I've tested it with my mu test site, and it seems to work pretty well, or should I say I've had no major issues just yet, not looked at the queries yet though.
Shame it doesn't have pemalink/seo/sef url's, I personally like this feature.
I was also considering using a photo album, but then thought, well why don't the users just create pages and upload photo's using the already existing internal features.
The only other two plugins for users I've installed so far are bookmarking tools for social networks and a myspace/youtube/google video plugin which is also cool.
Anyways I'm babbling as usual, so I'll stop there with the question again,....
What plugins do you use, and why?