Jul
24
(2006)
Dabble is a Drupal site!
Filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: dabble, drupal, socialsoftware, video.
Dabble was just pushed into full public mode, after being in a beta (does anything ever really leave beta?).
Looks like a pretty cool site - the main goal appears to be a social network growing around videos published around the internets.
It is a pretty thorough implementation, completely done in Drupal. It looks like it’s pretty heavily depending on a few modules in addition to the core (namely, video, playlist, tagadelic, buddylist(?), and likely a few others). The theme looks like a complete custom job, and the only thing that tipped me off was the use of “node” in some urls. Digging deeper, I found the telltale drupal.css file on the server (but not used in the theme…)
In all, a pretty impressive application of Drupal to launch a large social network site. There are currently over 300,000 video nodes in the database, with an unknown number of users. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one to see how it scales…
nice site indeed. and lots of drupalvideos
wow. 31 videos (interviews and tutorials) on Drupal. That’s pretty impressive…
Great to see Drupal being used more and more on high profile sites. Back in the university world, it's also making more headway - the Engineering Society at Queen's University (of which I am a proud member) recently began using Drupal to manage their website:
http://engsoc.queensu.ca/
I'm guessing they looked at what others were doing (including your great work D'Arcy), and decided to go with something proven - good, since it's about time CMS started being used for even smaller sites.
Love the theme, Peter, very original.
Hi Sami,
Just wanted to clarify - I did not design nor am I currently a part of the work that went into the design of the Queen's EngSoc website. Most of the work was done by Renee Stephen, who operates a local web design company in Kingston. I merely noticed the site and was pleased to see they'd selected Drupal.
I am merely an engineer, which makes me a member of the society… am sorry if this looked like I had designed the site.
I have, however, applied to volunteer to help maintain the site.