Hi. Although I love the idea of this module (having considered the same method myself) I'm not convinced it would be a highly scalable way of creating activity/status streams. I like the idea because it would become possible to do just about anything you like and have it displayed in a stream. The problem, I think, would be that Nodes are simply too much of an overkill to be used for this purpose, and would have far too many "frills" to be efficient.

I could be wrong, and thinking things over, I probably am. But for some reason, I get a gut-feeling this just isn't the right approach.

Thanks :)

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himerus commented

It may be some time before I actually get the code for this stable enough for even a dev release....

BUT...

I developed a similar product for a very high traffic site for D6, and the method was:

1 node for profiles...
all comments on the node became threaded in a way similar to facebook using two views to sort them by their level in the thread, and the time posted...

So like on Facebook where your most recent status update stays on top no matter how many replies something further down the chain gets.

The method embeds a view of the top level "posts"/comments, either from the page/profile author (status updates), and from other authors (wall posts), then for each of those comments, embeds the secondary level comments attached to that top level one.

It really did scale, and only used one node, as the relationship in drupal is already 1 node to many comments, this just expanded on that a bit...

I really hope to get this out soon!!

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darklight commented

Ahh OK, I see :) Sounds cool. I'm planning to start development on the D7 version of my website soon. Currently using FBSS, I need a more lightweight way of doing things. This might just be perfect. Looking forward to the DEV release, will be bug-testing :)

Thanks.

verynic’s picture

verynic commented

looking forward to its release.
i like it will have with google buzz's style(or blippy.com's),and integrate with user relationships module.
status and other content such as blog,album pics can put into one stream.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Is this module a duplicate of the much more advanced http://drupal.org/project/facebook_status ?

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rogical commented

have a look at http://drupal.org/project/statuses , is this module need any more?