Is social Joomla going to outperform social drupal?

By portait on 14 May 2010 at 16:29 UTC

A twitter message just came across my screen saying that "Social Joomla" (http://people.joomla.org) is available. I am desperately hoping that there will be some kind of drupal tutorial or step by step guide + some intelligent social modules that will offer that kind of a social experience that social joomla and buddypress are already offering.

Right now there is a huge gap on drupal modules within the social area.

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cog.rusty commented 14 May 2010 at 16:55

Isn't that a little hasty? Did you check that out to see how it works?

The part about a gap on drupal modules within the social area is not entirely true. There are plenty of modules and guides for the more technical users, for various kinds of social interactions, which somehow I doubt joomla can match any time in the near future.

But is is true for the non-technical users, or users who don't have the time, or just are not in the mood to get technical if they have an alternative. Which is the vast majority of course, and the reason of joomla's success in number of installations.

Which means that social joomla has good chances if it turns out to be even decent. If drupal wants to play the game of the numbers it would need to come forth with a "social" installation profile with fewer configuration options and to push a pre-designed workflow. That is how BBS forums dominated for so long after all.

I am not saying that it should, it takes a lot of work, but definitely it would relieve many people of some serious workload.

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WorldFallz commented 14 May 2010 at 16:55

Not at all-- just the opposite in fact. There's nothing there that can't already be done with drupal and hasn't already been done with drupal-- there's even a forum thread where someone discusses their complete clone of facebook made with drupal (and it's not new).

You have to remember drupal is not joomla or wordpress and in general doesn't have humongous vertical single purpose type modules. Drupal is a set of legos that has been able to do this for quite some time. What would be nice however, is a social distribution-- with the necessary modules installed, preconfigured, and ready to go.

I already know that if you

portait commented 14 May 2010 at 18:22

I already know that if you you have good php programming skills you can virtually do anything with drupal which is a positive aspect. The facebook clone was a killer app with lots of bugs and the maintainer never really cared about solving the issues. It's just sad that the potential demand for firstclass social drupal modules is huge but there are no out of the box module solutions available. You virtually have to hack modules to get what you want.

Obviously I am sort of comparing drupal to wordpress (buddypress) and Joomla which is not too absurd since even Dries Buytaert (http://buytaert.net/drupal-performance) does it all the time. ;)

Hi, May be what the poster of

summit commented 14 May 2010 at 23:04

Hi,
May be what the poster of the forum-subject says has more to do with marketing.
Shouldn't drupal have his http://people.drupal.org where an install profile of the right social media modules should be showed off, and where more interaction could be shown, I now there is a irc channel, but shouldn't drupal move on to more social interaction within users.
Like better subscribing posibilities, possibility to get a mail when someone add's something to your post, interaction what posts we really like, etc..
Just thinking with the poster.
greetings, Martijn

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cog.rusty commented 14 May 2010 at 23:43

That could be a great step, if there is a use case here, I mean.

For a while we may have scores of future society leaders dropping by to get their own facebook, only to realize that they will need to hire a developer. But having a working recipe would give it some focus and set some things in motion.

That could make it the third hottest Drupal task.