By lcasa on

Just opened a new Drupal-ish powered site at:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/uncut/

There's been a great deal of hacking of the built in Modules and Includes for both cosmetic and performance enhancements as well as the addtion of a couple of new modules.

Most interesting to you guys might be a generic ratings module that I haven't built an admin part for but would be happy to if anyone would be interesting in using it. It allows you to define an arbitrary number of rating types (e.g. Rate the 'use of language', rate the 'drama' rate it 'overall' etc) and values (e.g. 1 to 10 or good, not so good, bad etc) for a node type which a user can then choose when commenting. It then compiles a summary of the ratings and a list of the top rated nodes according to a user-defined function. The most complex ratings are currently active on the 'story' nodes of the site. The ratings system also has a user ratings system based on posting and allows users to 'ignore' the postings of users who have offended them.

The site also has enhancements to the main modules that I've noticed people have been asking for for a while like a view of previous comments when posting a new comment, proper 'my recent posts' views, forum-like bubbling of posts in summary displays, pre-defined avatar selector, taxonomy-linked icons/new post indicators, emailing on receiving new private message, taxonomy-related menus with new post indicators and a fix on the comment page linking. There are quite a few other enhancements which I haven't seen mentioned but may be of interest such as a taxonomy/history related 'go' button at the bottom of node pages -something my users asked for almost immediately.

I'm quite happy to add these to the Drupal cvs if anyone's interested and could show me how to get involved. (Would have done it as I went along but I'm affraid my calls for help went unanswered on these forums.)

All the best,

lcasa

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kennysto@drupal.org commented

its great to see a drupal site that does not look like a drupal site. I hope all goes well with it. If you have any 'spare time' it would be great to see an article about how you go about such a radical implementation.

I guess you need a fair amount of technical knowledge, you are also using perl? for some of the functions

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Hi,

I'm trying to make a new site with drupal. The problem is that drupal seems to have a low commitment with stable code (the last release goes out with a short period for testing and was released with a lot of bugs). Could you plese make an archive and show us a link to download your code.

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dmjossel’s picture

dmjossel commented

Site looks great, lcasa, and the changes you mention I think would be of great interest to many that use Drupal.

If for any reason you're unable to get them rolled into the core version of drupal, I'm hoping you can make them available indpendently, as was done at deanspace.org.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

the instructions for contributing to the project are in the Developer's Guide.

we'd love to see your rating module, and various other enhancements which are of general interest, and are implemented generically.

your site looks and works very well. congrats. i like the short stories too.

Frullet’s picture

Frullet commented

I love the site, except I think that it is missing something... ah that's it, why dont you put in a live chat room so only USERS that are logged on can chat. That way your site will be more popular and you will get more users.

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lcasa commented

Thanks for all your comments - the project certainly seems to be gaining momentum and it's good to find others chatting about it.

At the moment many of my non-new-module changes will require a bit of work to get them ready to go in the Drupal code - mostly cosmetic (I'm fairly obsessed with making things generic so with the exception of a few rushed bits as deadlines approached, they're not site-specific). I think it's best that I spend the time trying to get the changes into the project rather than writing a hack manual - but I'll certainly make any changes that aren't accepted available.

I'll start with the ratings module, though.

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jonstahl commented

I'm starting to plan a "drupal-ish" project of my own, and a ratings module like yours is on high my requirements list.

Any progress on making your hacks available as a module, or incorporating it into the CVS core?

tidalx3’s picture

tidalx3 commented

Sorry to dig up really old post but I really like lcasa's rating system.

It's been two years and no one seems to be interested in a good reviews and ratings module. propstar is too simple and nmoderation isn't really a rating system.

Does anyone know whether lcasa's rating system module was ever avaliable, or did I miss out on a similar module? I can't seem to contact or reach this person.