Drupal Commons 3.x Interactive Prototype - Feedback Requested!

I got one eternity project planned. Have had some previous experience with commons on sandbox but I just might start developing when this is released. Seems great!

The future of g.d.o on Commons is looking really really nice! I'm wondering if code for Following, Activity streams & Notifications will be tied to Organic Groups or will it be some stand-alone modules which we could use on d.o as well? That would be awesome.

Hope you all find these useful:

1. Dashboard to manage all content created by and aggregate updates around those content
2. Integrate http://drupal.org/project/taskbar to capture real time notification alerts and move sharing options, search, etc. to this bar.
3. How come userpoints/badges have been dropped?
4. How to restrict notifications in case there's huge number of comments/etc on a content piece?
5. There should be follow buttons everywhere a user icon is displayed.
6. There should be a location based search for content around you.. meetup.com has nice functionality
7. Photo gallery / group.
8. Multistep registration to engage users to signup for groups / users within the community
9. Embeddable widgets for content - see: web_widgets
10. Avatar integration
11. Map based visualization of location centric content
12. Facebook application integration
13. Edge Side Include for performance reasons.
14. Private Messaging users
15. Missing groups subscribe.
16. Most actions should be popup based rather than separate page.
17. Subgroups?

Let me know if I can be of any further help!

Please build in multilingual support for international use.

My favorite is Entity Translation, not the old node-based translation from D6.

This should be compatible with Lingotek translation, or a cheaper solution using google translation.

Option 2 in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7T2_9gCD4&feature=plcp

Really, really interesting interactive prototype, navigating with the help of the shift or ctrl keys. Very good to see that Commons for D7 is progressing so well.

Additional feature requests are useful indeed, to be implemented gradually. However, rather than waiting for a perfect product, and since the development of some D7 modules is still blocking a Commons release, in my opinion the most beneficial step now would be an alpha, as a Minimum Viable Product, or at least an updated dev.

A MVP, of course with limited functionality for a first alpha, would empower the Drupal community to experiment for new D7 sites (not yet for full-featured D6->D7 upgrades, of course). This alpha would really open the community feedback, possibly contributed patches as needed by users, etc. Probably this is already planned, but the earlier the better. ;) Thanks for all your great work.

You know, "Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers." (Eric S. Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary"). BTW, I knew of an online full text (it's an essay, just a chapter of a book) thanks to webchick's article Diaries of a Core Maintainer #6: A tale of two developers, an inspiring read as well.

I think this version is a great improvement compared to previous version, it really looks nice a very professional. These are my main comments and requests for this new version:

• The profile page should include a box to update the user status as in DC 6 using the Status module in conjunction with activity streams. This is one of the key features of a social network and I would even consider setting the status+activity streams block in the home page (just like Facebook does).
• The settings page should allow further configuration of notifications like frequency (e.g. weekly digest vs daily)
• The concept of follow a group is confusing, does it mean you are joining it? Are all groups open? I'd rather use join or sign up, depending on whether the group is open or moderated.
• There should be a mechanism to generate new group content types, using og_features maybe (like in the previous version)?
• Since DC can be used as a corporate social network there should be an option to select whether the content is public or private (only visible to members).
• The user points functionality should be incorporated.

While format is neat, I failed to see a link to detailed Bio (full profile) for Jeff Noyes! It is a perfect summary profile front page.

is it already possible to setup a common 3 prototype based on the current 3 dev version, which looks like the screenshots?

Regards,

Stéphane

1. Are group tabs (activity, feeds, Q&A etc) available every where within a group?

2. Can we enlarge that tiny group image to a bit larger size?

3. Can user signatures be activated in Q&A section?

4. Is discussions a tab in group tabs now?

5. Are nodes within groups easily identifiable as blogs, discussions or events etc in a group home page's activity stream?

6. Can anonymous creat discussions?

Been looking through the interactive mockup and they look stunning.

I did reaction though on the login page where I saw it would be possible to do so using Facebook or Google credentials. I think we need to be careful about what 3rd party credentials, if any, to use. Especially in regards to all the talks about how for example Facebook is using that to track people everywhere.

As an open source project we should maybe look into which ones we want to support, and particularly where they stand when it comes to respecting privacy. Mozillas BrowserID, http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/07/introducing-browserid-easier-and-safer-..., could be something here to look at for example.

Using them to create a new account is a one time task, but the risk of being tracked by their owners will go on and on and on.

The Drupal community needs to be very careful about respecting the privacy of its members. It has done a good job of that thus far. I don't want to see we change that now and risk ending up in a long, unnecessary, discussion about it.

If Facebook Connect, Google, etc credentials can be used, then we officially endorse them. That means we also give some support to how they manage privacy. While some do it good, others are constantly being debated in the media about how they handle it.

Lets not open that can of worms please!

Default settings are crucial. DC should have a clear strategy against Facebook. I made a DC site for our school and I think it is fantastic, but nobody else is interested.

This my wish list: similar default theme as Facebook and Gmail etc. have: do not waste space, low or shallow heading with drop down menus, small text, small or no icons. Please move the Register/sign up into the low heading. If DC should be a social company intranet, why use enormous Register/Sign up buttons? Make all lists as short and tight as possible, for example group visibility (mile long list of groups which can see a node) or publish date in lists are not so important, only titles at least in blocks,, no user pictures in lists: content is everything. DC should be able to use “all” themes. Block titles are... stupid.

If and since DC cannot beat FB et al, so join them: show Twitter users Twitter block automatically (do not know, if possible). Perhaps the fundamental question: can I publish content to FB and others? I suppose FB does not want to be a satellite, so perhaps users should be able to publish content to DC from other social apps. The question is: what could make people use DC as the primary app? On my site, students can create blogs which are visible in their own group only. I would like to have the share this button at the end of the blog text, how, is not working? This way, a student could publish his/her blog elsewhere.

Content types:

• own content, only creator can edit (where is the private button in Drupal as in Liferay?)
• common content, users with proper permission can edit: who really use wikis anyway? Any studies somewhere?
• announcements, title occurs in the notifications block
• events, occurs in the calendar and upcoming events block
• content in menus, restricted by permissions. DC is a CMS, is this a strength compared to other social apps?

Perhaps editing rights do not justify separate content types. Discussions and forums are not needed, since a node and its comment can be commented. Anyway, content types should be distinctive: they are not now, keep it simple. Worst problem with version 2.

Embedding of videos and Gmaps into the core is a must. I wish a user could embed a video or a map easily anywhere into the text with CKeditor. Nothing is eternal, all content should have a mandatory unpublish date. Scheduler module into core, the module is missing easy defaults as “publish for a week”. The stream should be used for private messages: people want private message module, why? Learn to use DC! We should get rid of email, why add another one? Another module candidate for the core: node copy. For example: make a call for a meeting, make a copy, change date. Calendar more visible as default.

Everybody can register to my site with FB credentials, but all groups are private and closed. Third core module should be Organic group registration keys (no D7 version). With this module, admin of a group can give a password with which a user can become a member of a group. I think this is how all sites should work, if this is a decent way of getting rid of captcha. I do not have a Twitter account, because I could not resolve the captcha. It would kill commenting. Hierarchical groups also crucial.

About security: full HTML only for admins, this is a horrible security hole in Drupal. Also other security modules regarding signing in, for example, should be in core (brute force, for example). Security is still not taken seriously.

I love DC, I probably will never install a Drupal site from scratch again.

Game theory/motivation is one of the best parts about commons!
Its essential to my project. I'd be so sad if you dropped it.

I will try to remember

Commons 7.x-3.0-beta2 has been released yesterday.

I hadn't looked a Commons in a few months, and love where it is at this point -- thank you!

One thing critical to my needs is Group Photo Albums, where users can submit photos to a group, and these can be commented, liked, etc. Is that in the works? If not, is there a recommended approach?

Today is the day. Thank you very much and congratulations!

• Commons 7.x-3.0
• Drupal Commons

https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/login/default/key/FW3OD3SQ now leads to "Sorry, this project has been archived."

Any other chance to get a test drive on Commons 3.0 (without asking Acquia Sales for a Live Demo...)?