Hey Gav, Wanting to develop a Drupal social netowrking site in the near future but it's going to have to be a Drupa 6 site as we need to use the phpBB import module, to bring over their existing forum.
Have been reading up on a lot of Drupal social networking but seems hard o find exactly what can and can't be done in Drupal 6 as opposed to Drupal 5, which seems to have more social networking modules in place. have you any thoughts on social networking in Drupal 6?
Sorry I only just saw this reply now. Drupal 6 is quickly becoming the mature and stable version of Drupal. Drupal 6 doesn't really have any more features (in core) that Drupal 5 doesn't already have. However Drupal 6 has a better administration interface which makes tedious tasks alot easier.
Module development has caught up alot of the last few months and many of the modules that are available for 5 are now available for 6. It can be confusing because sometimes modules that are available for 5 are not available for 6 simply because they have either been moved to core or the new core version has a more elegant code base that does not require the module which was essentially a hack for Drupal 5. I hope that makes sense.
Check out the Drupal groups (organic groups) module. It allows members to create their own groups, just like on facebook.
Check out this site:
DrupalSN.com is moving to a new server!
Its currently offline for a server move apparently (so I can't get the links), but there is a page on the site that details the installed modules.
