Social Networking Sites

This is the group for people who want to discuss Drupal's social networking tools. These tools include modules like Buddylist, Organic Groups, Invite, FOAF, Private message, and so forth. Sites that currently do successful social networking are:

The goal of this group is to foster communication between the developers of Drupal's social networking modules, discuss roadmaps, and collect community input.

One million or more users may create problem with buddylist.

Posted by sid3000 on March 20, 2009 at 10:20pm

Hi,
I have a question about scalability issue of buddylist. Suppose I have a site with 1 million or more users and admin(or any user) have near about 200000 buddies or more. My question is can buddylist module handle the access of buddylist of admin specially when buddylist calls the function buddylist_get_buddies and execute a query :

$sql = 'SELECT b.buddy, u.name, u.mail, u.uid FROM {buddylist} b
INNER JOIN {users} u ON b.buddy = u.uid
WHERE b.uid = %d';

Best tools for keeping the task of moderation manageable...

Posted by ln282 on March 18, 2009 at 2:38pm

I'm building a social network, and I'm wondering how best to minimize the amount of effort I need to put into moderation, while keeping the site from being taken over by trolls and spammers. I'm looking at "troll", "ignore user", and Mollom. I'd love to hear what combinations have proven successful, and any other techniques you'd recommend. I'm planning to start with an invitation-only beta, where people pass invitations on to their friends, and hopefully that will lead to a good core group of legitimate users.

Thanks for any insight,

Polling aspects of profile

Posted by jm473 on March 15, 2009 at 4:00pm

I'm trying to build a Drupal site that allows users to vote on what they think basketball players are the best at. So for example I'll have an individual profile for each basketball player, and people will be able to click multiple buttons on each profile, if they think a player is the best shooter, or best defender, or best dunker, you get the idea. Those results will get added up and output, then I'll sort on who's the best at what.

I thought I could do this using:
Advanced Profile Kit(adding the categories for best)
One of the voting modules(I've tried Fivestar and Plus1)

Drupal Crash Course + Break in the sun, Europe

Posted by greg.harvey on March 12, 2009 at 10:48pm

Start:

2009-04-05 (All day) UTC

Organizers:

greg.harvey

Event type:

Training (free or commercial)

Aimed at people wanting to learn from scratch how to build and manage a complex website in Drupal, this is a 7-day stay in the south of France, in the Roman town of Uzes on the Provence border, including a 5-day intensive Drupal course. The event runs Sunday to Sunday.

Day 1 (Sunday) is orientation and sight-seeing, days 2-6 (Monday to Friday) are taught from 9:30am to 5:30pm, then the evenings are yours and Day 7 (Saturday) is a final day of sight-seeing/relaxing before heading home on Sunday.

Facebook "Friend Lists" in Drupal.

Posted by ipt on March 9, 2009 at 11:09pm

Goal: To create Facebook-like "Friend List" permissions to allow/deny access to nodes.

my social network

Posted by sanluca on March 8, 2009 at 4:49pm

I want you to see my social network

What do you think? recommendations

www.fantabook.org

tnx

What do you think about these new Friendlists views?

Posted by mariusooms on March 3, 2009 at 8:24am

Hi everybody, this discussion is geared to the current (future) users of friendlist. As I created the initial views for friendlist, I started out with the mindset to create generic views, which users can customize further. However it ended up being more confusing and messy. I would like to take a different approach and create views that work better out of the box for the default relationships shipped with friendlist, namely, friend and fan.

Help the Eclipse people make an awesome EPIC Drupal site

Posted by robertdouglass on February 25, 2009 at 11:24am
Last updated by michelle on Wed, 2011-11-16 15:12

The Eclipse foundation is relaunching their Eclipse PlugIn Central (EPIC) plugin repository site in Drupal. Help them make it rock by analyzing their requirements document and giving them the best tips possible. A large number of Drupal developers use Eclipse as their IDE and we owe them a debt of gratitude. Help make EPIC rock!

See here:
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/
http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/epic-20/
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPICModernization

EPIC Modernization Requirements Document V 0.1

Collecting and exporting user data

Posted by merilainen on February 19, 2009 at 9:32am

Hello all

We are researching social networks and online communities here at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. In addition to developing them, we need also to study the behavior of the users in these networks. I guess the best term is social network analysis.

PHP memory consumption tips

Posted by raulc on February 18, 2009 at 1:29am

Hey everyone,

Ultimate activity feed - programming, technical

Posted by sirkitree on February 17, 2009 at 10:57pm

Maintainers of activity type modules, or other interested parties,

If you had to rewrite your module from the ground up, or architect the ultimate end-all be-all module for recording and displaying user activity on your site, how would you go about it now, knowing what you know?

From maintaining the Activity module, I think I've come up with some basic needs for this kind of feature, so let's discuss how to best go about implementing the functionality of the ultimate solution.

Basic needs:

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Ultimate activity feed - features, UI

Posted by sirkitree on February 17, 2009 at 10:41pm

I think pretty much anyone looking for this sort of feature for their site comes from knowing how it is implemented on facebook and are looking for something very similar. If that is the case, there are a few main things that we're looking for it to do, how it should look and act from a user's standpoint. But what are your expectations?

Functionally:

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Recording - What should this record? How long should it be stored?

Best gallery for this

Posted by jorjica on February 15, 2009 at 10:51pm

Hello all,
I'm a new member here and I'm new with Drupal. I like what I see so far :)
Anyways I was wondering...is there a good gallery that can help us here? I mean for instance to do a hi5 like script the gallery must be linked to the user profile, modules, etc. I know how to install one gallery but it does not have too much with the profile (either standard one or the content profile module one). And to edit the show picture page template.

private contents

Posted by sanluca on February 6, 2009 at 6:16pm

I try to create a small social network with the possibility that only those who make part of your list can see the contents of the other, so as to understand the FB friends list that does not support the dashboard or profile if you do not become friends.

how can I do to get this feature with drupal?

thanks to all

OG with current panels release on Drupal 6

Posted by raulc on January 30, 2009 at 12:25am

Hello everyone,

Book Launch. Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide

Posted by dorien on January 28, 2009 at 9:43pm

UPDATE

The book has been updated to the latest modules and is also available as a paperback book on Amazon. The ebook has also been updated and is still available here.

--
I thought you might be interested in the new ebook that has been published:

Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide.
With notes for Drupal 5
Now everyone can set up a community.

ISBN 978-2-8399-0490-2

how to create buddy list based on open id

Posted by borngold on January 28, 2009 at 10:44am

hai

i am new to drupal
. i am trying to display buddies(automatically) to my user in my site.
condition is that those buddies should be present in my site as well as in the social networking site mentioned by the user.

thanx

How can I force User to fill them out the content Profile?

Posted by bennos on January 25, 2009 at 3:30pm

I am trying out something in D6 with content Profile.
How can I force a User to fill out the content profile?

Is there a hint I have not found, a module or snippet?

thx
bennos

Activity, Heartbeat, Activity Stream, Activity Log

Posted by mr.andrey on January 24, 2009 at 7:03pm
Last updated by icecreamyou on Thu, 2012-02-02 23:53

We're launching a social networking portal, and planning on setting up a facebook-like feature with user statuses and activity updates. For user relations we're planning on using FriendList module. (From what I understand User Relationships has a bulky API, and Flag Friend has bugs, like inability to remove friends, that aren't fixed yet).

So far here's my understanding of the options:

Activity

user autenthicated create a user-relationship type

Posted by sanluca on January 23, 2009 at 10:27pm

hi,
how can I do to allow authenticated users to create the relationship type they want?
I can not find anything in the form

thanks

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