Email notifications and RSS Feeds

Thanks for your interest, Ryan.

Right now, ArrayShift is in a very early state. The basic structure of it is working nicely -- tags, views, questions, etc. Views tweaks and other modifications could definitely make it possible to build out more features (adding an RSS feed is pretty easy, for example, using Views) but I have a relatively limited amount of time to take on solo development of an entire product. I can help manage ArrayShift, but I'm also looking for others interested in working on it -- both the process of finding bugs etc, and also the process of figuring out how to add new features, then translating those features into 'setup scripts' for the install profile itself.

I just took a quick look, and the tagging issue appears to be related to the 'Active Tags' module that makes tagging a bit nicer. If tags are entered into the tag field, but the 'Add tag' button is NOT clicked, the tags aren't recognized and the post fails validation.

It looks like you have clean URLs turned off -- you'll need to go to homesteadingwtf.com/index.php?q=admin to see the admin section. I just tried hitting those URLs on your site and got a proper 403 error when I used the 'dirty' url, but a 500 error when I used the 'clean' url.

Setting up clean URLs etc, and figuring out why that 500 error is occurring when clean URLs aren't turned on, is a question that probably needs to be ironed out between your hosting provider and / or the general drupal support forums.

Yeah, that's something that would have to be figured out with your host or via other Drupal support channels. http://drupal.org/node/15365 might be a good starting place. It seems to be written for people with more contorl of their server setup, but it includes a lot of helpful pointers that might be useful when asking your host for more details about the problem.

Ryanne/Jay,

You can do all kinds of cool things with notifications in Drupal. Try out the Notifications module http://drupal.org/project/notifications. Markus has a lot of experience with notifications. The thing is, you might have to reconfig your server to allow your website to send out email the way you want. Or you might run into other problems, something more complex than on just the regular website http:// side of things. I suggested getting other, easier parts of the site up and running first, and add notifications later.

As for RSS feeds — you can put buttons everywhere basically. Use Views to make feed displays and....... and......... and........ yeah, there are a lot of details.

A couple things to know about the Drupal community and how you might contribute / find help:

1) The forums are a good place to post tech support questions. (I thought the issue cue was the place for this too when building my first site. It wasn't until later that I realized support happens in the forums — and on IRC!) http://drupal.org/forum

2) It's likely that you will quickly have one of the best Stack-Overflow-like sites built in Drupal out there. So be on the lookout for how you can share your code with other people, and make your discoveries part of ArrayShift. Drupal really is just a bunch of people like you two making stuff and sharing it.... so plan to contribute back and think about how you might build your site so that you can do that. Building a theme for ArrayShift and giving a copy to Eaton is a good place to start.

3) Drupal groups are great resources. You could go to a meetup in the D.C. area, and perhaps get a lot of in-person help. You could start an online Drupal group about making Question and Answer sites, and share the process with other people. Check out the existing groups from this giant list at http://groups.drupal.org/og/all