The more I read about it, the more interesting it sounds. So the two main features that make the sofware worth the money are the changable globals, and the changable colors? Now is the blog you are talking about, more or less, a commenting system. Example, any user can comment at the bottom of a user page, similar to myspace or facebook, or tagworld? Does the blog have it's own page? So a user can upload photos and videos to share? Its there a photo type gallery for this kind of thing? Can each user message each other, or do you have to have GForum installed? Is the personal photo going to mess with GForum's personal photo? Can each user upload his or her own articles? What about featured users?

The reason I would think it would be a plugin for community and not for links is this: what if you want a perl based user communitiy (like myspace) that uses all of GT great backbone programming, but you don't want a directory site (not my case though). Is user review the only way it really ties in to GLinks?

As far as a buddy system, which I think would be a great feature... Maybe just a table called "buddies" with ID, user1, user2 as fields.. and just have a call for add both users to the db, delete would be easy, and an output sub routine that displays them with templates. Doesn't sound too difficult? Maybe an option to allow someone like Tom or Admin to automatically be your first friend, or you can start with no friends...

Sorry, I have been thinking about these kinds of things for a while, I have more questions, but lets start with those...

Thanks,

- Jonathan