Really enjoying this discussion. I think it's very valid.

Check out what we've been building at http://beta.seshn.com.

It's designed to be your home on the web, where you can show off all of your social networks you're on, you can post blogs and you can even aggregate content via auto-posts from your existing apps.

We've built a very custom layer on top of WP. IMHO, it's one of the most ambitious undertakings ever to be built with WordPress. In my experience with building this layer on top of WP, there are certain parts of the core that just need to be forked, such as the post editor. We could sit around and wait for the team to add the features & functions we need, but that could take months or even years based on the rate of development.

I am trying to figure out if we're going to fork it, or just use our existing solution. If we do fork, I'm wondering if we should just fork the entire thing. Would love any feedback or thoughts.

Be happy to set anyone up with a beta account, so you can see what we've done. Get in touch! brandon @ seshn dot com