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Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

2 days ago

One of the best things about Drupal (years ago, when I used to write plugins and themes), was that you could completely customize the backend, as well as the frontend, and that was a good thing, if you have low-tech users that author content. I despise having to walk people through WordPress' backend.

But that rewriting the base system, every couple of years, was why I dropped it.

Nowadays, with LLMs, it may be time to look at it again...

>But that rewriting the base system, every couple of years

To be fair, they did it once, from v7 to v8. But yeah, a major release does break APIs. I'm concerned with how Drupal Canvas is bolted on, but it looks like it's basically a content editor UI that is separate from the site admin UI, which is a good idea.

  • I think from v5 to v6, as well. v6 was the last one I worked with (been awhile).

    Also, there were a whole plethora of extensions (not just "plugins"). Some of those broke, while others, did not.