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Drigg The Upcoming Drupal Based Digg Clone Confirmed For 30th December Release

December 28th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Here at Social CMS Buzz we originally reported that the Upcoming Drupal Module titled Drigg would be released on the 21st December, after a code structure re-write to utilize the Drupal Voting API instead of Tony’s own Simple Karma Module Drigg is finally confirmed for release on the 30th December 2007.

Drigg is a drupal module that allows anyone to create a social voting site with similar features to Digg.com.

drigg-code.org
It took me a little longer than expected because I decided to change QUITE DRASTICALLY Drigg’s underlying structure, so that it used the VotingAPI.

This meant making the simple_karma module obsolete, and actually dividing simple_karma into 3 different modules (the voting forms, the user karma and the comment promoting modules).

I rolled out Drigg 1.0. FSDaily us now using Drigg/VoringAPI, and… it works!

I just wanted to let you know that Drigg 1.0 will be out on the 30th of December.
This means two things:

1) The file drigg_distr.tgz will be finally finished and working properly; the installation instructions on the site will be updated as well
2) The Drupal modules will be released formally

Drigg will come with a nice theme, easy to customise.

Drigg is a highly anticipated module for drupal that shows a lot of promise, the effort placed into the project in such a short period of ime alone is an outstanding achievement. We will have a full review of Drigg when it is released.

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Category: Drigg

Tags: digg clone, Drigg, drigg code, Drupal, drupal drigg

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Comment by Drupaluser on 29 December 2007:

Good idea, but its incompatible with the infamous CCK module : (
Comment by Tony Mobily on 31 December 2007:

Hi,

The release date has slipped to the 3rd of January - apologies everybody.
We worked very hard, and… finished!
Now, we are gonna take a few days off before the release - which, we are sure, will bring a lot of feature requests and bug reports!

Bye,

Merc.
Comment by LincolnHawks on 31 December 2007:

Thanks for the update Tony looking forward to hopefully moving our pligg site to your system after we do some testing, our current installation of pligg is killin the Database server as it is with lots of other sites.

Keep up the good work.

Lincoln
Comment by Tony Mobily on 5 January 2008:

Hi,

Drigg v.1.0 was released today
For real!

I will focus on bug reports for the next 30 days. Not because I am good, but because I need a rest After that, I will start looking at the interesting feature requests I have received up to now.

Thank you!

Merc.
Comment by LincolnHawks on 6 January 2008:

Excellent news Merc, cant wait to test the full v1.0 release out espacially with the new template you guys created.

Great work so far and i am sure many will really appreciate this project.
Comment by Neil on 27 January 2008:

And we have a new digg-like website using Drigg here… http://www.diggJesus.com. Check it out to see an example.