I've been trying to look up how to create a social network with Drupal, found these links which seem to point out a lot of the needed modules 7968 and 10531. If someone knows of other helpful links, it'd be welcomed, but that's not needed nor my main concerns/questions.
I'm not a programmer, but I can make a website with CSS and PHP. Just the basics of PHP. So I'm concerned whether or not I'd be able to actually make a fully featured social network like phpFox, Handshakes, and others offer.
So, if anyone is willing, here are some questions:
1) If I'm not mistaken, it could take 20 or more modules to have the full features. Would I run in to trouble with needing to hack things to get them all to work together or no?
2) Looks like not all the modules that are needed are updated for Durpal 6 yet. Once the modules are upgraded, should it be fairly easy to upgrade? Meaning like Wordpress. Upgrade Drupal, then upgrade the modules, no data would be lost?
3) If I even run in to a situation where some key modules aren't updated, if the website is functioning fine, staying at that level of Durpal shouldn't matter? Like 5.7 I think is completed and stable, so staying with it wouldn't be a problem if everything is fine?