By dunklea on

Hey guys, quick question here. I am developing a new site in Drupal and an important part of it will be forums. I am not happy with the stock forums that ship with Drupal and want to develop something new. I am a big fan of the forums at photo.net.. can anyone take a look and see if a similar system can be setup in Drupal? Advice on how this would be accomplished and modules need etc. I am also open to the idea of hiring a developer to create a custom forum if needed..

Thanks!

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WorldFallz commented

Before going that route you may want to checkout the http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum module as well as the work being done on http://drupal.org/project/drubb.

EDIT: I don't see anything in the photo.net forums that couldn't be done with drupal, views, cck, core forum, advanced_forum, and some theming.

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WorldFallz commented

Also, please don't create duplicate threads. I've deleted the dupe, thanks.

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michelle
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Wow, I haven't been to photo.net in ages. ( http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2352246 is me :) Their forums have changed quite a bit since then. One thing I remember that I hated is that new replies didn't bump topics to the top. Have they fixed that?

Anyway, it's not the traditional forum look but, yeah, you should be able to do that. I don't know if AF would be a help or a hinderance... AF really is geared towards the vB/phpBB/myBB look.

Michelle

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dunklea commented

Thanks for the replies guys :)

I have been diving further into Drupal and it does certainly appear that I can do everything that photo.net does. Now it is just a matter of time and hard work to get everything setup.. :)