What Is Pligg?
“Pligg first came to be after I saw a story on Digg in early December 2005 announcing the new open source code from Menéame.net.
Menéame is a Spanish digg-like site created by Ricardo Galli and co-authored by Benjamí Villoslada and Guillem Cantallops that thankfully released it’s code to the public back in December along with a Affero GPL so that others could build upon their code.
The very first version of Pligg was simply an English translation of Meneame’s source code. I had no idea that Pligg would snowball to what it is today when I first took the time to translate it. I then posted a link on the Digg story for Meneame directing to my English version of the Meneame source. A couple weeks later, the forum thread for Pligg on my website built up a lot of replies. It became confusing when refferencing back and forth between the Spanish and English translations of Meneame, so we gave it a name and domain (”Pligg” first came to be on December 17, 2005). People then began to offer some small bug fixes along the way and somewhere right after we started our own site AshDigg (God’s gift to Pligg) showed up. AshDigg has since then been the lead developer for Pligg and Pligg has expanded from just a translation of one project to a very popular CMS system. Pligg still has the same backbone based on Meneame’s code, but it has evolved to something far different from Meneame.”
