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Comment by yipinwong

6 hours ago

I maintained websites built in Drupal, WordPress, etc for medium sized businesses back in 2010s.

Drupal has been absolute mess for maintenance, backwards compatibility, responsive ness (code/dev wise).

People started flocking more to WP and Drupal docs weren't just up to date as people were moving away.

Nothing will change my mine over Drupal at this point still especiallyin this day and age. Better create one yourself or mod WP.

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Whatever the post says about it's "light-years ahead" sounds like a tiktok influencer talk.

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lwhi  5 hours ago

It's genuinely so much better than it's ever been.

I completely understand how people got burnt. The move forward was less about bringing users, site builders, and developers along for the journey and more about providing what enterprise needs.

And one of the enterprises that was front and center was Acquia, Dries' organisation that he set up to offer consultancy services based on Drupal.

Having said all that, it is genuinely a very good product now, and one that LLMs are incredibly good at building with.

The high level of documentation, convention over configuration, and the API-driven nature of Drupal lend themselves very well to LLM assistance.

Considering just how awful WordPress is in terms of security, community, cohesion, code quality and maintainability. I think it's a crying shame that Drupal has lost so much goodwill.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd recommend anyone reading gives it a try with Codex or Claude code, and you'll hopefully see what I mean.

  • yipinwong  1 hour ago

    Now at this point, it's not the usability or how good it is over other products or how you can do more with AIs.

    Drupal needs to market how well it can people make $ or at least save. ROI is a good KPI to bring up, if the team has data to back it up, etc.

  • anakaine  3 hours ago

    Rural lost almost all of the good will, and foe good reason. It was a dumpster fire with a half arsed ecosystem of extensions. During that period WordPress was flourishing, listening to users, and making sure administration was a lot easier.

    Saying that Drupal is better than it has ever been is not much of a statement. It still isnt as easily extensible due to having a smaller community of contributors as an after effect of mismanagement.

    I hope they have improved, but their reputation has been earned repeatedly.