Deprecated - Social software and communities

I tend to be a wallflower in forums, but after searching through the archives for quite some time I haven't been able to find any answers to my many questions, so I have been forced to expose myself :P.

I have read that large thread regarding the myspace clone thing, sadly nothing good has come of it, so I'll start with this... I am willing to learn, I don't need my hand held, I just need a nudge in the right direction, and yes I have limited finances so if you can't go beyond the scope of helping me for free than thanks but I'll get to you when I have more $$$ :P.

What I'm trying to do is accomplish something Mojizu.com has done, please visit because looking at that site would give you a better idea than my lackluster explaining abilities.

Hopefully you have checked out the site I mentioned. First question that pops into my head, is it possible to achieve something like that in Drupal. I'm not trying to make a clone, in fact I'm heading in a different direction, I'm just interested in the functionality.

Things I'm interested in...

1. User Profiles

I like how the user profile is limited, I'm not a big fan of how Myspace allows their users to put everything and anything into their profiles, can't afford the bandwidth.

2. Content

hi everyone,

i want to create an information community site about places.

every place should get his own information page and it should be possible that only the owner of the place can edit the site (and the admin ;) ).

i thought about doing it like myspace where bands have similar pages like users but im not sure how that would be created w/ drupal. Don't know if it is the smartes way.

any advice? :)

ps: sry about the horrible topic, could not descripe it better ;)

Hello my name is John. I am in need of a PHP/Druple Dev. for a month long contract in the Los Angeles area. The project rates will be $50-$65 hourly depending on the developers strengths. We are going to be using Druple to merge components of www.lifelogger.com for a client. It will be an exciting project with good pay that will last about a month.

I came across your profile on Groups.Drupal, I am hoping someone here will be able to jump into the project. We need the qualified candidate as soon as monday if possible.

I am looking for websites that feature modules for OG, Buddy List etc in order to see how the work.

If you know of any public ones please let me know. Computing related once will be better, at least I can join them without looking foolish.

I need help. I haven't been able to find a membership software that supports drupal. Ex(amember Pro software)

aMember Pro has a few problems with how the plugin script inserts users into the database and it also has problems with Drupal profiles as well. Posting from Drupal.org below:

Well, the concept is to signup in aMember and then just create Drupal users and roles... this is currently done via MYSQL inserts
which is a dirty workaround to not use the user? module. found that users were inserted via a simple insert-statement that didn't even take care of the sequence numbers...
so every manually created user later corrupted the user base... pretty dirty solution... while I got the source I didn't implement a better one yet, and they didn't either - I'm not using aMember currently due to that Also I want my users signup in the Drupal level, filling out my profiles and all that stuff - that's not supported by aMember That's the reason why I currently consider either a) investing even more time to customize aMember which is a great product, but doesn't know much about Drupal or b) start from scratch with the ecommerce / wordplay module. So even after a new member has signed up via aMember, he or she can't go back and fill out the profile? The profile is one of the key things I'd like my users to fill out, so if aMember does not allow that, it's definitely a limitation. When the poster talks about doing simple insert-statements with out updating sequence numbers, he’s referring to inserting nodes into the Drupal database without bumping the Drupal sequence numbers (Following is cut and pasted from Drupal.org: ”Sequence numbers are automatically generated by the database Drupal keeps track of what is the highest ID value separately, in the sequences table. When a new user is created, Drupal checks the sequences table to find out what the next UID should be. Presumably this is more efficient than checking the user table itself. Drupal then creates the new user, updates the user table with the new user information, and updates the sequences table with the new UID. The same thing happens for the node table, comment table, really, a whole bunch of tables”)

I am having a promizing social networking site running. Currently we are at +300 members and +4000 posts in 6 months.

I am wondering what kind of difficulties should I expect facing as the community is expanded? How well does Drupal scale up? Any experiences of managing fast growing web site and coping with the growth?

Thanks for your experiences in advance?