The Best Implementation of Drupal Forums

With the wide scale introduction of user contributed content, the forums are becoming an integral part of many websites; from enterprise level support to personal blog sites, forums are a must have feature for your site. This session aims to demonstrate the types of features a powerful forum must have. Furthermore, this session will show the audience how to implement these features in a streamlined fashion by installing a Drupal installation profile.

Forum features include:

• Mailman Mailing List integration-- Emails sent to your mailing list are automatically added to the forums. Replies posted on the forums are automatically emailed to the Mailing List.
• Vote for replies
• Tag replies as “solved” answers
• Tag forum topics as “featured”
• Send private messages to users
• Display badges for power users who post to the forums often
• Display user contributed posts on the user profile page