Could you please explain why you created this module instead of helping out with FBSS and what the differences are? From the minimal description on the project page, it sounds like you're duplicating efforts.

Michelle

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thehong commented

FBSS is designed for microblog, http://drupalcontrib.org/api/function/facebook_status_schema/6 FBSS:
- only allow 1 user/1 wall
- facebook_status->uid->description: The User ID of the owner of the profile -- hardcoded to user profile.
- (still) not allow comments for status.

But this is not, user can use this module to create as much walls as possible: user wall, private message, group wall, page wall, ...

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michelle
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FBSS will be doing that. He's working on it. Rather than making another module, helping him out with that would make one solid module instead of one that only has part of the functionality.

Michelle

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thehong commented

- I do not see that *He will be doing that*: http://drupal.org/project/issues/facebook_status?categories=All
- This module making *wall posts*, not status.
- PPL do not like facebook_ prefix.
- I think walls is better module name for the feature-set.
- This module is writing on Drupal 7, ctools and others are not ready yet.

Andy

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1) #576278: Abstraction of statuses from users
2) Same thing.
3) I can't do anything but roll my eyes at that one, sorry.
4) See #3
5) True, but FBSS would get to D7 a lot faster if people would help him instead of duplicating effort.

Anyway, I'm not going to keep arguing about it. Unfortunately, there's no rule against making duplicate modules. All we can do is try to discourage it and you are obviously set on doing this if you're going to make up silly reasons to justify it. So that's it from me. ICY can weigh in if he wants. I pointed him at this issue.

Michelle

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thehong commented

*Unfortunately, there's no rule against making duplicate modules.*

Truth, there's nothing against me to start this module (attually this is not a duplication). As you can see, Ubercart born after Ecommerce, mollom after captcha, ...

Andy

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Michsk commented

I to feel sorry that this module has been born, helping FBSS would, in my eyes, also be a better way to go. Must agree with the facebook name thing tough but that shouldnt be such a problem that you need to create a whole new module. And the examples you give, i dont know about ubercart and ecommerce but mollom and captach are differant firms, we are all working with drupal so creating another module seems useless.

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icecreamyou commented

Hi, I'm the Facebook-style Statuses maintainer.

The way I see it, the main difference between Walls and FBSS is that FBSS has stable, feature-rich code developed and tested over 2 years, and this module has almost no code.

To the creators of Walls: if you have the ability to create the features you claim to be building, please write them as patches for FBSS rather than a separate module. As Michelle already pointed out, abstraction of status streams is in development, and will probably be finished before Walls has anything functional at all. (Abstracting status streams will allow for 1-to-many streams for users, groups, or whatever else.) Comments are already available for FBSS through the separate Facebook-style Statuses Comments module.

Regarding the name: the Drupal 7 version of FBSS will have a different namespace. (And I am planning port FBSS to D7 sometime soon after there is a beta release.) Perhaps it didn't occur to you, but "walls" is still a Facebook-owned term and has the same potential liability* as Facebook-style Statuses.

In short, I can't stop anyone from creating a competitor to FBSS, but I can say that it is a waste of your time.

* Believe me, I've done my research, and there's no actual liability. It's fair use under U.S. law.

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halohaloplace commented
Title: Define difference from FBSS » This causes error

This causes the following error:

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/mysite/public_html/mydrupalsite/sites/all/modules/walls/includes/walls.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mysite/public_html/mydrupalsite/all/modules/walls/walls.module on line 19

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mohsinrafique commented

It is giving fatal error when installed on machine. It gives the same fatal error as post in 9. Now how can we fixed this error. It says above that we should change the Title. So how we will change this...?