Can anyone list some comparisons between Buddylist2 vs. User Relationships? Does Buddylist2 support a default friend that every new user gets (like Tom on MySpace), etc.? I tested out User Relationships, and I found way too many bugs for my liking, so I don't think it will be a viable choice at this time. Thanks.

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gagarine commented

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nodestroy’s picture

nodestroy commented

to your first question:
basically its possible, whats missing is an action for workflow_ng to create a buddy connection (quite not hard to implement). i have this in mind, but first i wan´t to provide a stable and bug-free module. i looked at user_relationship, it has many features but what didn´t see was a flexibility as we need it. maybe buddylist/user_relationship is the core module for a social networking site, i think customization is very important for such an module. i tried to get this with views and the use of workflow_ng.

in drupal6 the views stuff will be much more better&powerfull (no need of usernode). the buddylist2 tables are prepared for named relationship, and i will implement it when the basic stuff is stable enough, so that i can provide a stable release.

thoughts for further development are everytime welcome.

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mercmobily commented
Version: » 6.x-1.x-dev
Component: Documentation » Buddy API

Hi,

I can settle this one actually...
User Relationships is a theoretically good module. However, it's been completely abandoned by its author. It also duplicates pretty much everything Buddylist does (which is against Drupal's principles).

I agree that the person who wrote User Relationships had some good ideas -- especially in terms of speed. However, he should have continued developing it rather than abandoning it like he did.

Nodestroy: can I mark this one as "fixed"? :-D

Merc.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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