Posted by tounano@drupal.org on November 13, 2006 at 9:50pm
Hi everybody,
While making my research about Drupal profile solutions, I was pointed to the following site:
http://www.goingon.com
I was shocked after surfing the site. This site is powered by Drupal and it's amazing! WOW!!!
I want that our BB project will have such full featured profile like in goingon.com. Does anyone have any clue which profile module this site is using? What are the other modules of that site?
Thanks and have a nice day.
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4.6
They are using drupal 4.6, so my guess is that they have hacked the core or made a load of unpublished modules for the site.
How do you know that they
How do you know that they are using Drupal 4.6?
drupal.css
Well it's not a failsafe way of telling, but you can look at the CVS Id of /misc/drupal.css and check that against drupals CVS.
It also gives you the date as well.
that means absolutely
that means absolutely nothing. Think about it. If you originally had a drupal 4.6 site, customized perfectly. Why would you start over with the new drupal style sheet rather than just relacing it? Or moreover, just copying your template folder to your 4.7 installation. There's no definitive way to see what version they're running on, however, I'm guessing it is 4.7
I hope will figure this
I hope will figure this issue soon :)
I've invited the webmaster of goingon to the DruBB group.
I hope he'll answer our questions :)
Even thought that site has a
Even though that site has a great amount of functionality as a social network, it is doubtful that it will become popular. Something exactly like MySpace won't overtake MySpace. And with Facebooks huge staff and virtually unlimited functionality, it is nearly impossible to create a popular social network.
Even a great site like goingon.com, which has been around for 2 years, has only about 50,000 members (less than actually), a mere half percent of facebooks 10,000,000 registered users which has been around for even less time.
Therefore, your social network will not become popular if it merely has the same functionality as facebook or MySpace--you will need to make something completely new and unique. That's the key. And for this reason, I've stopped production on Popboard as I do not have the man power to create something completely new, nor the time.
MySpace/Friendster - Friends List
Facebook - College Networks
YouTube - Unlimited video space
Think of something new. ;)
Well, how will I explain
Well, how will I explain it... I am planning and not planning to build social network.
Actually I want something like social network, but it's more like niche social network. I am the webmaster of www.managersnet.net, it's currently running phpNuke, but I am converting it to Drupal, and that's why the BB rush. It's the main area of my site.
Anyway, managersnet.net is about the game "Football Manager" (If you're not European probably never heard of it). All I want is nice Social Network for all the "FMers" over the world (more like over Europe), that's all. No MySpace, no YouTube, no Facebook, just small social network for "FMers"!!!
P.S. Now I have about 4,000 users, and they only from Israel. My plan is to have 20,000 until next October :) That's what I want.
I understand. Then, this is
I understand. Then, this is perfect for you. If you need any help in creating custom modules/code, I'll volunteer. I have alot of free time in the next couple weeks. I need a project. haha
Thanks :) Joing our group:
Thanks :)
Joing our group: http://groups.drupal.org/drubb
:)
I joined. Let me know what
I joined. Let me know what you may need. I have expertise in PHP/MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Java, and AJAX.
The best one, really!!!
Joined! looking forward to the DruBB...
Hi popboard!
Interested in talking more about www.popboard.com. Am trying to do some similar things for a large niche community. Am interested in consulting/buying code - have budget. You can contact me via my contact form.
Popboard- please get in
Popboard- please get in touch with me. I am interested in hiring you for some development work.
hi
I have seen popboard and I really think you have made a great work. I have several ideas to improove your web site. I have started to build my social network with drupal and several modules (i have a private online community site since 2001, that i need to migrate to drupal). I am not very good at php but I have very good knowledge on how to build userfriendly and attractive web site. CU
Florian
Cool site, but...
This chart is telling:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=goingon.com&site...
goingon.com is very sluggish right now, and gives lots of connection errors.
Without regard to unique features or content, goingon.com can't grow if visitors can't read the content. What's going on with it? Overloaded?
Michael Curry
Exodus Development | Drupal and other developer info
Michael Curry
Drupal and Windows Tips
Upgrade
Updating the drupal.css file would be part of any normal upgrade and not to do with the theme at all. The readme and install files are both from 4.6 as well, so unless they updated the site and didn't replace the drupal.css, readme.txt and install.txt files, then my guess is that they are still on 4.6.
there are a lot of custom modules built for GoingOn
First of all, thanks Tounano for inviting me to the forum. Let me speak on the behalf of GoingOn tech team here.
We started the site with Drupal 4.6, built a lot of custom modules (which was not available with 4.6 then) and then manually migrated few things to 4.7. So, it's not an auto-upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7. For profile, we have built our own profile module. The site has been operational for less than 6 months now.
Let me know if you need answer to specific questions.
Thanks Ashish
GoingOn is one of the best social networking sites I've seen (not just including Drupal). I'd love to know more about how you set up 'create a post' (blog, event, review, audio, people showcase) - that's the closest thing I've seen to a Drupal version of Structured Blogging. You're outputting microformats, right? Have you explored the possibility of using CCK/contemplate to do a similar thing (ie create/output microformats)? You can read my ramble here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/1807
The ability to aggregate and post to multiple external blogs - are these custom modules?
What about Flickr feeds, del.icio.us. feeds, Blog Roll, My Tags and the Online Identities? Wondering what modules could do a similar thing and/or if some of these custom modules might be contributed back to the community.
Great job again - really amazing site!
Gus
Gus Austin
Hi, I join the question
Hi,
I join the question :)
About microformats, I tried to read about it, but I haven't understood what does it mean?
Can anybody explain me in simple language, what is microformats?
Thanks.
Structured blogging module
Thanks Gus! We actually built a custom module for supporting structured blogging. What we basically did was that took the structured blogging code for Wordpress (its' PHP) and then on a 'similar architecture' built it for Drupal. No - I havent taken a look at CCK thing - will read that up too.
Yes - external blogs, my tags, online identities - most of those are custom modules. We would like to contribute to Drupal -- but at this point of time, we are addign more features to the product and are bandwidth-constrained. Once we come out of Beta - we 'should' have a little more time to contribute to Drupal. Don't we all hope for that? :-)
tounano - the idea is that microformats makes your reviews / events / others 'machine-readable' because they spew out code correspondingly. Of course - there are a lot of technicalities - check out http://www.microformats.org for that.
social networking website
Do you know of any good drupal developers?
Network Categories
Hi,
I would be happy to know how you developped the " Network Categories " block...
Denis
very interesting
It is a very nice profile system.
ideas for young social entrepreneurs -
Ideapreneur.net
www.ideapreneur.net
Social Network Site
Hi, not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I have not had any answers in the general forum.
I have setup a single codebase, single database, multi-domain installation. It still needs a fair bit of tweaking to get it to where I want it to be, and solving the problem I have detailed below would greatly help.
My site url is: http://www.myalicious.com
I am trying to format the display of recent posts, but can't seem to get the output to display the way I want.
What I am after is something similar to the output that teamsugar has. If you take a look here, it will give you some idea of the type of formatting I am looking to have: http://teamsugar.com/blogs/all
Alternatively, as I am using views if I knew which file to edit, I could edit it so that it formats the content the way I want. So if anyone can tell me where to edit the tracker formatting, that would help.
Thanks in advance.
Regards Ross...
Check this out!
Hey guys, i came across this website.. nice use of colors and lot of attention paid to details. Its a drupal 6 website..
the Url is: http://www.webnirvanatrail.com/
Umm.... Isn't this your website?
Don't get me wrong, it's a valiant effort but I think you're advertising rather than pointing out an amazing site you came across.