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- robertDouglass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Congratulations! Does the release automatically come with birthday cookies? http://buytaert.net/happy-sixth-birthday-drupal
- benedett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Wordpress is awesome for a blog. Drupal is good if you need lots of users, multiple blogs, multiple group blogs, a more complex category system, and need your site to do anything else non-bloggy.
- berkes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Congrats folks. My personal favorite newishness: jQuery. It rules. Big time (/me hopes digg devels will realize jQeury can finally solve the incredible slowness of Diggs JS 'stuff'.)
- berkes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Note that it will take a while, maybe months, for all the contributions, such as themes and modules, to catch up with the new release. Hence the option of using 'proven technology' (4.7) for a new project should never be put aside just like that. Advice: Evaluate properly what it is you really need.
- robertDouglass, on 10/15/2007, -0/+8Drupal is 100% GPL code. Only GPL code can be hosted in Drupal's CVS repositories. We care about free (as in speech).
- frando, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You must have gotten something wrong here. Drupal and all drupal modules are written in PHP, which is a scripting language so you will never have to compile anything. Actually, module install is ridiculously easy with Drupal: Just download it (from http://drupal.org/project/Modules), unzip it, drop it in your modules folder and activate it on the module administration page. That's all, everything else is done automatically!
- nathandigriz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It is very hard or nearly impossible to build a community in Wordpress. You need a lot of third party software and plugins. Drupal can be a minimalistic CMS like Wordpress but also bounce to the other end and be an out of the box community site. So if it is just you and always will be you just blogging then Wordpress is fine. But if its you and you might expect to have to handle other users or a group then go with Drupal.
- robertDouglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Drupal can do just about anything. It is especially capable for those who like to customize (with PHP/JS/CSS or whatnot). The biggest hurdle for moving from the Typo3 world into the Drupal world is the absolutely different ways of thinking about websites that the two foster. Getting Drupal to behave like Typo3 (or the reverse) will not be easy.
Good luck trying Drupal, and please write "Typo3 eye for the Drupal guy" about your experience so we can all learn from it. - theotherlight, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Last time I tried to use Drupal it just came off as bloatware. At the time I certainly didn't feel like going through miles of documentation and thousands of forum posts and how-to's just do a few things at a slightly more advanced level. For most people doing simple blogs, it's an easy setup, but there still seemed like a LOT of unnecessary features. If you wanted to take a few steps further, then you had to drudge through the bloat.
I'm really hoping that this new version fixed up a lot of that, which seemed like a major issue to me. I always jumped the bandwagon to Wordpress because the code was simple, very little bloat, and it was easy to take a base install and turn it into whatever I wanted.
I'm willing to give the new one a try, because it definitely seems like they put a lot of effort into a stable, more sensible release that would be great for very long term websites. - vertice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Drupal core is actually fairly light. But even in there will be lots of features you just dont need (like forums etc.).
Drupal is basically like a set of lego blocks, that you can build almost any website out of. It is ridiculously modular, so if you don't need a feature, just turn off the module and it won't bother you. - cvweiss, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6That was my first thought. But instead of posting "WTF is Drupal?" I did something unbelievable... I went and looked it up and found out for myself!
- bohemicus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is a huge announcement. It's exciting under the hood (jQuery, access arbitration), but what people may not realize that the new default theme is likely to influence the web for a generation (about a year). I've already seen a dozen webs that use it as their default - and strangely enough - unlike most templates - the easy color modification makes them all look just unique enough. Throw in the new automatic installer and module tracking and you got yourself a winner.
- NikLP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Best thing ever - just in time for my first Drupal projects! Like, starting today!
- bmann, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Try the Akismet module -- it's available for Drupal 5: http://drupal.org/project/akismet
- loffeecover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hip, hip... Hooray!
Videocasts at:
- http://drupal.org/videocasts - ekso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6aha! http://drupal.org/about
but it could still have a tab or something up there anyway... :] - omnitrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4spam sucks
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Drupal + Ruby, some day?
- chadu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Where are the "WTF is Drupal?" comments? They are usually a fixture in posts about everyone's favorite opensource content management system.
Congratulations Drupal team. 5.0 came out quickly and has a lot of great features that will only cement your place as the #1 open source php content management system. - xamox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Imagine for a moment that wordpress decided it would be a good idea to start doing steroids........that is drupal.
- starkos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, what an amazing update this is. The last version was already pretty good, but this is - wow.
- Blabster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Now if it only had good theme choice like wordpress i would switch!
Lets wait and see... - Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Something can be free (as in beer) without being open source. However being open source implies being free (as in beer). So saying "open source" conveys more information than just saying "free".
Of course, I haven't bothered to look at what license it uses, so it could well be Free, as well as just being free.
Hope that helps - guytoronto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I too am about to undertake a new project with a friend. We had tinkered with Drupal a few weeks back, and were just about to settle on it (after comparing to the likes of Typo3, Joomla, and more).
Since there is no time sensitivity in our project, we're going to jump on the Drupal 5 wagon right now, and see where it goes. Wee doggie! - JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Nice cookies.
cacaboy long ago made my block list and by you guys replying with such fury and idiocy yourselves only makes me want to block you as well. Don't feed the trolls, block them and move on. - binodc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Drupal Must be the benchmark for other CMS Developers!!
- sepeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, as the front page itself had this huge Orange box describing what Drupal is and with a link to About Drupal in it, we thought that was enough.
- rousehouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33 flawless site upgrades to the new Drupal version 5 so far. You can't beat that. Congrats to Drupal on this milestone!
- ekso, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Btw, I am about to switch to Linux, but that is something I see that plagues open software initiatives: it seems nobody cares much for the noobs. Open software will never get mainstream unless that happens (together with the oh so praised user-friendly interfaces)
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3IOW, unless you're willing to do a lot of customization and coding, no.
Drupal can do that stuff if you want to code it, but it can't do any of that stuff out of the box. - nhurtley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can't wait to give this a run. It's been a long-time-coming.
- godie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3LOL. I just installed RC2 from scratch about 3 hours ago and there it is on the front page already.. Drupal 5.0 is out! ** bangs head on the wall **
- andre75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow. Cool. Time for updates again.
4.7 defenitely had problems with performance. The abstraction layer caused it to be flagged by some webhosts for good reason (Some pages on my sites would generate 300 or more MySQL queries -- mainly those are third party modules though). Seems 5 has some performance tweaks that hopefully will handle this better. - ekso, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Worray! Long live open software!
But... why nobody placed an "About" tab on the homepage with a couple of lines resume of what is Drupal for people that never heard about it?
And... WHAT IS Drupal?? :) - analytik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ImTheDarkcyde, are you really brainwashed, or are you just roleplaying?
Being a developer, I know that open source matters. Even if you necessarily don't have to understand it, open source products influence our everyday lives, even if we don't use them.
And yeah, I've looked at the source code of Drupal. It's not a miracle that will solve all your problem, but it's one of the most flexible CMS I've seen (and I've seen dozens of them). So shut up or bring up some facts that it's not you who's "so full of *****". - Amything, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4What are the major differences of Wordpress and Drupal?
- CalebG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Take Drupal 5 for a spin.
http://drupal5-0.highervisibilitywebsites.com/
Admin username/password: demo
Have fun. :) - afreytes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wordpress is like a lake. If you like skinny dipping, I mean blogging, then go for it on Wordpress.
Drupal is just like the name says, a drop of water. But put in some modules... and then you got the f&^%ing ocean ready for some power surfing...
Like someone here on digg explained quite insightfully... Drupal is a CMS construction kit... - kasa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great ! This announcement made my day!!
- RobLoach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great work! I love the new features.
- analytik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Drupal isn't actually aimed at lonely bloggers, although it does provide platform for them without much hassle (but I blog on WP). Drupal is aimed mostly at online communities (and Drupal.org is nice example). But it has so much to offer - I know for some people (esp. those not skilled in using powerful CMS) Drupal may offer too many options, but still most of the functionality is modular, so I sure wouldn't consider it a bloatware.
- cbrumelle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just use the image module (http://drupal.org/project/image).
- jharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How did you know it was my birthday?
- ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is Image handling built in yet? I tried installing a few weeks ago, but the lack of image support turned me off. But I read that it was "any day now," so I have had a lot of anticipation for the release.
- bpocanada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It won't be too long before Drupal 5.0 becomes the tool that Marketing Department of every Fortune 500 company will be using.
- clo75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Congratulation to the team, Drupal is such a great work
- beforeIforget, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There's Radiant CMS out there which uses RoR as the core language. I like it for simple websites since it's got a nice layout and is relatively painless on the end user with some slight modifications. It's really lacking some key features which hopefully will come in future versions. I like the roadmap: the core will be kept simple and all features will be plugins. If you like simple, it's the way to go. If you want everything and the kitchen sink, Drupal is the way to go. http://www.radiantcms.org
- robmilne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great sw that keeps getting better. I don't think it will be too long before it becomes a buzz word for non-techies.
- saso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you Dries and the team. This is truly a remarkable achievement.
We recently released a drupal 4.7 site and I cant wait to upgrade it to 5.
Take a well deserved break!
Also thanks to Lullabot team, and the Drupal Dojo for sharing the knowledge. - king1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Been looking forward to this for quite some time. Good work Drupal Community!!
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