User generated content (UGC) implementation - SoCo or AEM communities or Adobe LiveFyre or Adobe Social
Users are contributing content more than ever before, and it's getting difficult for Enterprise systems to manage it. To cope up with this, Adobe keeps evolving their UGC ecosystem. I think it was called Social Collaboration tool before CQ 5.5 After CQ 5.5 it was called Social Communities (So-Co), this was shortened to So-Co. With AEM 6, this was rebranded as AEM Communities. At that point, all UGC components functionality was moved into Communities from AEM. So forums, comments/ratings etc. With 6.2, the concept of a central store was introduced, so content was saved outside of AEM in a central location where all instances would read and write, this can be Mongo, or JCR (but only for single instances) or it can be cloud storage (better name than social storage) which as you know carries a cost. And then Adobe overtook another product named Livefyre which is managed comments and other UGC content in a SAAS ki