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Honestly, Drupal is doomed. I wrote about it years ago when I left the community [1] around the time many of the smart folks who were contributing started movin
by hunvreus 11y ago
Honestly, Drupal is doomed. I wrote about it years ago when I left the community [1] around the time many of the smart folks who were contributing started moving on to better things.
Just a look at Google Trend for Drupal [2] shows you that it's been declining steadily since 2009. Comparing it to Wordpress [3] shows you the extent of the gap with the leader.
Drupal has always been stuck trying to address an odd user; not exactly a developer, but somebody technical enough to leverage the insane amount of configuration interfaces that allow you to compose a Drupal website.
Personally, I think most CMS have it wrong: coupling content management and front-end generation is a sure way to end up spreading yourself thin and not properly addressing either problem. I think content API (e.g. Prismic.io or Contentful) are good examples of what a better approach could be.
Have a content management system that has great editorial tools and exposes the content through an API and let developers do what they do, integrating the content from the API.
[1]: http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/ http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/
[2]: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=drupal https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=drupal
[3]: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=drupal%2C%20wordpress&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B5 https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=drupal%2C%20wordpres...
- huskyr 11y ago> I think content API (e.g. Prismic.io or Contentful) are good examples of what a better approach could be. I wrote about this in a blogpost a couple of months ago called 'the perfect CMS' [1]. I think Contentful is pretty spot-on in terms of features, but i would really love to see an open source project (like WordPress or Drupal) taking this same approach. [1]: http://www.haykranen.nl/2015/07/08/perfect-cms/ http://www.haykranen.nl/2015/07/08/perfect-cms/
- hunvreus 11y agoWe're building something that we're gonna Open Source soon. In the meantime you could check out Cockpit: http://getcockpit.com/ http://getcockpit.com/.
- mrmondo 11y agoAs someone that until recently hosted 300~ Drupal sites I could not agree more. Code quality is poor throughout and the nature of it's design makes it easy to do the wrong thing. Moved to static sites where possible, language specific CMS components per-app and then tried to avoid the CMS ecosystem all together.
- pluma 11y agoJust a factoid I find interesting: Drupal never really caught on in Germany. German CMSes used to be dominated by Typo3 (if you're not from Germany or Denmark you likely never heard of it before): https://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q&q=drupal,+wordpress,+typo3&geo=DE https://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q&q=drupal,+wordp... Drupal started gaining traction in Germany around 2008 but was rapidly displaced by Wordpress. Even though Wordpress now dominates the German market like everywhere else, Typo3 is still stronger than Drupal. Things get even more interesting if we add Joomla: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q&q=drupal,+wordpress,+typo3,+joomla&geo=DE https://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q&q=drupal,+wordp... Compare that to the US: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q&q=drupal,+wordpress,+typo3,+joomla&geo=US https://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q&q=drupal,+wordp...