So I'm wondering if Ning can do what I'm needing to have done....

... before I begin any trials. Trial periods are always too short. So I need to do a little research... Any answers or comments will greatly help me decide which hosting platform I will use for a large community. (Large by my standards anyway... but growing every day)

I am at my development limits with my current provider. And I like what Ning has to offer, but I'm wondering about the actual implementation and what my user experience could be like. My concern is to keep things as close as possible.

Here's the design:

The individual profile pages are also designed as dashboards. The central focus is a tabbed frame that collects aggregates and organizes from several forum type repositories. Each user has an individual forum, and there are community forums. Users are "required" to post to the individuals forum Question(s) in order to gain access to viewing that individual's profile. And the purpose of the community is to share ideas both individually and community-wise on these forums.

The thing is that I need to have one tab that will display the individual's forum, and one that will collate and collect and display only those forum discussions that are started by that individual no matter where it may be located (whose individual forum or community forum), and then a third tab to display the community forums the user is subscribed to.

Then additional tabs can be added to follow other users in the manner described above for collecting and collating.

This was very hard for me to set up the first time. I'm not the best coder. I am slow and verbose in my development. LOL. I often will send my brother the programmer about 200 lines of code and he'll send me back 12 that do the same thing. LOL.

So I'm really wondering if something like that could be done with Ning, and how complex it would have to be. I am very pragmatic, so I would be happy to use any feature or solution as long as the end result is the same (or very close).

What do you think? Any advice?

Joe