For those fed up with networked social site communities, server down time and constant bugs at each and every upgrade. Oxwall in my experience is the way forward, it used to be very complicated to install but now many decent host sites running cpanel make it a breeze to get it up and running.There is a learning curve but its not so bad. I run http://codewhacker.com which is an independent developer site and its where you can get good advise about Oxwall and help at every stage. 

As an ex developer on the Ning platform and Wall.fm I have seen the frustration and the network problems I have help many developers over the years Code Whacker is running on an Oxwall platform and makes a good demo concerning Oxwall and its sheer brilliance of being a leading social community builder. In my opinion it outshines Ning and one is in complete control of ones social community. With complete access to the source code a wonderful platform for those that love developing with CSS and Javascript as I do.