Community

This module allows registered, active users on any Drupal site to communicate via instant messaging in real-time. Using jQuery and Ajax, the IM module is small, simple, and stands alone, not requiring any external instant messaging protocols and/or servers. This means that setup is a snap, and since this feature is a "nice-to-have," and uncoupled from any content and other functionality of your site, we encourage you to give it a spin.

Note: As of 2009/07/22, this module appears to no longer be supported. If you are interested in taking this module over, or you as the module maintainer feel this message has been posted in error, please reply to http://drupal.org/node/317911.

This module allows users to manage their own contact list in Drupal. Some constraints can be applied like max number of contacts per user, private or public directories and administration permissions.

Blog theme allows users to have persistent themes for their blogs based on the theme they choose for their account. When others view thier main blog page, or any node (of specific admin-defined types) created by them, the reader will see the authors theme instead of their own.

Invitations are important to create network effects and exponential growth of a community of interest. This module provides an Invite a friend feature to allow your users to send and track invitations to join your site.

Comment Notify is a lightweight tool to send notification e-mails to visitors about new, published comments on pages where they have commented. Comment Notify works for both registered and anonymous users.

SIOC (Semantically-Interconnected Online Communities) project is an open specification for describing communities using online discussion forums or blogs, leading to what some may term "distributed conversations". At the moment, online communities are islands that are not interlinked, and the SIOC ontology has been proposed to not only link these communities but to leverage data in ways that were previously unknown.

This module provides an API for users to gain or lose points for performing certain actions on your site.

In conjunction with other modules, such as the Userpoints Nodes and Comments users can accumulate points for actions such as posting nodes, commenting or moderation duties.

Use one of the many contributed modules to extend the functionality of the module to include point accumulation on page views or votes, upgrade roles based on point balance, or purchase goods from your store.

This module is useful in providing an incentive for users to participate in the site, and be more active.

Userpoints is included in the Drupal Commons distribution.

Adds a "forward this page" link to each node. This module allows users to email a specific node or other entity on your site to a friend. You can customize the link text and icon and choose the view modes on which the link appears. You can also customize the email template to match the rest of your site. The module includes a report on which pages are forwarded the most and a log of all forwarding activity. Integrations with Views, Display Suite and other modules are included.

Offers more features for signatures in posts and comments.

This is a module that lets Drupal handle user- and session-management for phpBB, a popular forum / bulletin board system. In practice it takes things from the Drupal database and updates the phpBB database each time a user logs in. It also provides a block that lists recent topics from the forum. This module requires mod_rewrite / clean URLs and is not recommended for beginners.