First off, let’s talk about taxonomy. Big word. Going to add it to the glossary later so that I know what it means. Basically, you can set up various levels of what other portal-type systems call categories or topics. The great thing is, you can make it apply to different types of nodes (the base content, whether a blog, a weblink, or even a poll, are all nodes) AND every defined category/topic can generate a separate RSS feed.
Next, there is a little thing called "content filter" — don’t enable HTML tags! It screws lots of other things up.
Other interesting things that got added are a glossary module, which puts either a little superscript link or icon next to defined words (plus a cool cursor-turns-to-question mark and tool-tip which gives you the definition) and the weblinks module.
What else? Moderation — turn this off, it’s annoying unless you are running a khur05hin (sp?) clone. Authentication — Jabber and Drupal come bundled out-of-the-box, you can add Blogger, Yahoo, Manila, and Delphi. Cool! What about hooks for "intranet"? LDAP?
I’m sure there will be lots more things. I’m working on a no-tables, CSS-only theme — should be interesting to see how that breaks everything, especially since I haven’t looked at what the "block" format is like.
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