Stack Overflow has dozens of little features that add little magical touches around the site. They help you find things, they help you display things, and they make using the site fairly intuitive. Let's explore how to add a couple of these features to a Drupal site. Read more »

Stack Overflow brings "group think" to the forefront. Questions and answers are voted on. The more popular a question the better it is. The more popular an answer the more accurate or informative. That's the impression, anyway. And, if you don't know what answer is the best others on the site who know better can help you see what the better questions and answers are.

As we explore building a Stack Overflow clone with Drupal we need to explore how to build this form of "group think" into our site. Read more »

After building out the Question and Answer content types in the first step of creating a Stack Overflow clone with Drupal it's time to create the page that displays the Question, its Answers, and the comments. Ideally this would be done entirely with contrib modules but, there is one missing feature. Luckily it only takes a few lines of code in a custom module to fill that hole for our specific case. Read more »

Since I wrote the post about the style of conversation on Stack Overflow being the next revision for forums I've had numerous people ask how to build it in Drupal. Since there are quite a few features, even with its simple interface, I'll be writing a series of posts outlining how to build the clone. And, for those of you who want the same style but something simpler I'll be writing a post about that as well. The goal of this series of posts is to use contributed modules to build everything. Read more »

Until recently, I had come to the conclusion that web forums were dead. When it came to new sites or conversations about web technologies forums were something I avoided all together. Forums just didn't seem to fit within the current paradigm of web technologies and there seemed to be better ways to have the same kind of communication. That was until recently when I saw a variation of forums that works in this new paradigm. Read more »