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Ability to integrate with user’s contact list to invite others. I think they used an established service for this. I think there are add-ons that query a user’s email account, imports email addresses, and allows the user to create and send an invite email. Here’s the relevant post from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2011 Apr 27 New feature: Invite more neighbors

Ability for a user to configure an embeddable javascript widget showing selected EveryBlock content. Here’s the relevant post from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2010 Aug 3 Introducing the EveryBlock Widget

Ability for a user to add a comment to any news item. Also include the ability to mute any item from any user as well as the ability to preview a comment before publishing. Here are relevant posts from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2009 Oct 19 New feature: Post comments on news
2011 Sep 26 New feature: Mute users
2012 Jan 30 Introducing comment preview

Ability for one user to contact another user through the site. This may or may not be necessary. If there is deep integration with social media (login via Facebook or Twitter, for example), users can easily use these other services to make contact. Here’s the relevant posts from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2011 May 16 New feature: Neighbor e-mail

Ability for user to draw a section of a map, see news in that area, and save that view to their homepage. I’m not sure, but I think this feature was deprecated at some point and may not have been part of the site upon closing. Relevant blog post:

2009 Aug 28 New feature: custom locations

Allow for users to receive badges for various site behaviors. Seems like integrating with the the Mozilla Open Badges infrastructure would be a good idea: http://openbadges.org/en-US/. Here’s the relevant post from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2012 Oct 2 Introducing new EveryBlock badges.

This is the heart of the difference between openblock and everyblock. The immense amount of work on this amounts to a series of design patterns for civil discussion around a place. EveryBlock Designer Sandor Weisz has led the development on this, aided in large part by a team of Community Managers led by Becca Martin. They deserve a lot of credit for thinking this through, and it is a large part of the legacy of EveryBlock.

In order for this bug report to be useful, it should probably be broken out into smaller chunks. Here is an attempt at describing all of them in one swag:

Ability for a user to create a news item. Include the ability to “mute”/ hide any post or user as well as the ability to see the users who are following an area to which you are posting. Includes the ability to attach a photo in a post and to share a post via Twitter or Facebook. Include the ability to make any post an “event”, with a time and place, and to publish it to the proper place in the Events section. Includes the ability to preview any post before publishing. Also includes the ability for any user to flag a post as great (“Thanks”) or not great (“Unneighborly”). Also include the ability to group posts into categories. Also allows any user to turn any post into an advertisement. Here are relevant posts from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2010 Jan 7 New feature: Notify your neighbors
2011 Apr 12 Who reads your neighbor messages?
2011 Apr 18 New feature: Mute button
2011 Jul 13 New features: Photo uploads, social sharing and more
2011 Sep 26 New feature: Mute users
2012 Jan 18 Introducing events
2012 Jan 30 Introducing comment preview
2012 Jun 11 The latest about ‘no thanks’
2012 Aug 20 Neighbor message categories
2013 Jan 7 Advertise your business on EveryBlock

These are features that are either not a part of the core code or features that were deprecated/ unsupported later.
2009 Aug 24 New iPhone app version (not core)
2009 Oct 14 Introducing EveryBlock address pages (added then removed)
2010 Oct 21 Announcing the EveryBlock badge for aldermanic candidates (deprecated)
2010 Nov 1 Introducing the EveryBlock partner API (unsupported)
2011 Sep 27 Introducing the EveryBlock publisher program (deprecated)
2012 Apr 30 The brand-new EveryBlock iPhone app (not core)
2012 Aug 2 EveryBlock 2.1 on the iPhone (not core)

Relevant blog post:

2012 Aug 3 Announcing EveryBlock’s new maps

This one is a toughie. The site was substantially redesigned to center the user interface around neighbor messages. Once all bugs are addressed, the UI will be roughed out to account for this, but it obviously wouldn’t get to the level of EveryBlock without a lot of work. Also: build the site using responsive design. Here are relevant posts from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2010 May 3 Announcing the EveryBlock mobile site
2011 Mar 21 Redesign notes for existing users
2011 Mar 21 EveryBlock's first major redesign
2011 Mar 16 A new EveryBlock

Reconfigure news feed and emails so that the most recently updated items appear first. Also include the ability for user to subscribe to email notifications as soon as an item is published. Here are relevant posts from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2010 Jan 4 Timeline redesigned for improving timeliness
2012 Jul 31 A better EveryBlock digest (and more)
2010 Feb 3 'As it happens' e-mail alerts