myLifetime Community Launches

Recently, the new myLifetime Community launched and it has been an overwhelming success. With members joining at such a fast rate, it’ll soon be surging past 100,000 registered members.

This site is separate from the main myLifetime site (which also is Drupal) and was built to be powered by the MothersClick community platform which Lifetime acquired last year. This new community website was built upon the new version of our community platform, which now has Drupal 6 at it’s core.

While we’ve been quietly working on this new platform, we’ve been brewing up and improving some great APIs in the Drupal community, all of which we consider to be necessities for building rich, online communities with Drupal. Without further ado, here’s a top sampling of where our efforts have been focused:

Modules

• Development of a new friend API, Jerad explains
• Complete redevelopment of Smackdown for Drupal 6
• Complete redevelopment of Activity for Drupal 6

Patches

• Numerous improvements and tweaks to Popups API, Jerad explains
• Patches to improve comment displays in views
• Patches to further improve Solr and add user searching (still in patch)
• Patches to add Yahoo UI support for WYSIWYG api, Dave explains
• Performance improvements to Context

Sponsorships

• Sponsored numerous improvements to the Memcache project
• Sponsored backport of compatible Drupal 7 Simpletest to Drupal 6
• Sponsored numerous improvements to notifications & messaging modules

Myself, Scott Reynolds, and Jerad Bitner will all be at DrupalCon next week so if you have any questions feel free to ask!