I did this the other day on my forum.
To get it looking like the following
www.mingle.ie/social.php
I installed:
Forums Arranged in columns on forumhome (works fine on my 3.6.10 board):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99829
and
Custom Forum Status icons
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=102025
Then played a little with the forumhome_forumbit_columncell template that the first mod uses to overwrite the standard display of forum information.