Hello,
WOW !!! what a great module! -- a great tool for building communities. Congratulations! and Thank you!
What I don't like about the original Buddylist is that it is not very flexible and not too user friendly to the end-user.

I have some comments and questions:
1) Privacy: I could not get the privacy options. Is this going to be included in the future? I think it is very important that users have privacy control and Drupal is noot too good in that department!!
2) Mini-Feeds: I installed Friends, but could not get the mini-feeds like you have on your demo-site. It would also be nice to allow end-users to control which minifeeds are displayed and which are not (like on Facebook).
3) when we go to example.com/profile , is it possible to display options like "View Friends" and "Add to Friends" -- just like the old style of Facebook. The great drawback of the old Buddylist was that I couldn't get to display "View Friends" listings of each user.
4) From what I understand this module adds friends automatically. But I think there should be a procedure of Request>>send automated e-mail>>Confirm/Deny (like on the old Buddylist)
5) which Messaging system would you recommend to use for a small community SNS -- Privatemsg or Messenger or any other?
6) Could you write some documentation on how to split the user profile page in two halves as you did on your demo site?

I know this is a lot, but that's because I really like this module and am pretty excited about it.

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kenuck commented

Hi ,
Thanks. This module is just meant to be a simple "Facebook" like friends feature. For the most part, the friend module is working except for the privacy features.

Your questions:
1. Yes, the privacy option is in the works.
2. min-feeds: there's actually an add on module which provide the feeds ... I'll make this available for download within the next couple days.
3. Not sure exactly what you mean... the "Friends" menu link will list all friends, did you want to place this link on the user profile page?
4. The module doesn't automatically add friends. A request is sent to the user, the user must "Accept" the request. Unless of course you send an invite to a friend that's not part of the site (external invite), if the invited friend then joins the site, he/she is automatically added to the list of the person that did the inviting.
5. not really sure. Personally, I wouldn't use one... I guess I could always put an option to post a "private" corkboard message where only the owner of the board and the poster can read it. I'm building a SNS now and only using the drupal built-in contact form.
6. sure. In the meantime ... to get you started.
I re-wrote the user-profile.tpl.php in the modules/user directory. You'll also need to update the user.css file.
Here's what I have
user-profile.tpl.php

<div id="user-profile">
    <div id="user-profile-left">
        <div id="user-profile-picture">
        <?php print $profile['user_picture']; ?>
        </div>
        <div id="user-profile-links">
        <?php print $profile['friend']; ?>
        </div>
        <?php print $profile['mutual_friends']; ?>
        <?php print $profile['myfriends']; ?>
    </div>
    <div id="user-profile-right">
        <?php print $profile['mini_feed']; ?>
        <?php print $profile['corkboard']; ?>
    </div>
</div>

user.css :

/*********** USER PROFILE *******************/
#user-profile {
}
#user-profile-left {
    float: left;
    width: 40%;
    min-height: 400px;
}
#user-profile-picture{
    height: 100px;
}
#user-profile-links dd , dt{
    text-align: left;
    margin: 0px;
}
#user-profile-left .picture {
    float: left;
    overflow: hidden;
}
#user-profile-right {
    width: 60%;
    margin-left: 40%;

}
/*********** END USER PROFILE *******************/

Please note that these modules are still under heavy construction. I'm building these modules along side the SNS site I'm working on.

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i can't get my custom profiles to work :(

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