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I've used drupal, and it has its place. That said, I think the drupal community is the single worst offender in the "our software can do anything and everythin
by thatthatis 13y ago
I've used drupal, and it has its place.
That said, I think the drupal community is the single worst offender in the "our software can do anything and everything and is perfect and you never need to use another one and you can't tell me otherwise" camp
"Drupal doesn't scale well" is met with "there are sites doing XX mn pageviews a month in drupal. Not, "Yeah, it is really optimized for sites that will have less than 30,000 users and less than 500,000 pageviews a month."
It is software that tries to be all things to all people -- that's fine, its a swiss army knife. But I really hate the fact that when you tell a drupal-fan that "This problem really needs a cleever" they try to tell you that the saw blade on the back could do that fine.
I learned web dev by way of Wordpress -> Drupal -> Django. Of those, I still use and love Wordpress and Django -- they're great tools for their respective jobs. Drupal? I personally just can't use it. You can't trust the drupal community to accurately participate in a conversation about "what is this optimized for" (they always say "everything!"), so you have to fact check every claim and that takes as long as building it in django.
- leonk 13y ago> That said, I think the drupal community is the single worst offender in the "our software can do anything and everything and is perfect and you never need to use another one and you can't tell me otherwise" The original post is a direct criticism of Drupal from someone in the Drupal community.
- thatthatis 13y agoThat's the problem with stereotypes and generalizations. That there are people in the drupal community who are circumspect does not invalidate the overall point that the drupal community on aggregate/average is far less circumspect than the average open source community.