We recently launched Throng – for TV fans which is proudly made using Drupal. Here’s some features and information about the modules we used:
Each user gets a blog and categorises their posts in two ways: once using the type of post (rant, rave, gossip, spoilers, news etc) and once with the name of the show(s) they’re writing about.
This way, people can follow their favourite blogs, or just read news/spoilers etc, or just read posts about a specific TV show (e.g. Grey’s Anatomy or The O.C.. There’s also a forum view, if people prefer looking at the content that way.
Because the list of shows is rather long (and growing as people post about other shows), a special page was created with the help of the tagadelic module.
The taxonomy image module has enabled each show has its own picture.
The love/hate module has meant that people can list the shows they love/hate. And when they go to the shows page and they’re logged in, the colors of the show change to pink/blue depending on their preferences.
Thanks to the Amazon Associate Tools and Currency Exchange API, we have our own Shop with pricing in local currency. The exchange rate is daily when cron is run.
The Bookmarksmodule has meant that members can add their favourite blogs to the sidebar of their blog. The module has been adapted so these bookmarks are public.
The Views module has been invaluable.
Other handy little modules include: Smileys, Word filter, URL filter, Private msg, Google Analytics and Forward. A few custom modules have also been written.
