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Does Drupal Suck? A Contrarian View On The Best CMS

Submitted by gr on June 11, 2009 - 15:23
Your session in a few words: 
Despite being the best CMS, Drupal still sucks. Here's why.
Track: 
User experience and design
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Intermediate
Language: 
English

Drupal is the best Open Source CMS, and probably more. It is also a great source of frustration for many of its supporters.

This presentation will walk you trough a selection of EPIC FAILS from the point of view of a long time Drupal integrator, user and fan. It also tries to offer solutions to those problems, including prototypes, code contributions and sponsoring.

Also, you will laugh. Half-heartedly.

Change the title, please

Submitted by agentrickard on June 24, 2009 - 16:47.

Let me just say that these kind of titles are very unwelcome. We had several of them in DC, and I will not attend.

I am sure I am not alone in this.

provocative

Submitted by gr on June 24, 2009 - 18:06.

Yes, it is provocative.

It's also tongue-in-cheek. Here :-p

Sorry you won't be able to make it, I guess.

title changed

Submitted by gr on June 24, 2009 - 18:23.

I changed the title to make a bit less offensive. Just a little though :-)

wysiwyg editors and file management

Submitted by eve on July 11, 2009 - 23:51.

Frustration for me comes with two really basic tasks:
- integrating a wysiwyg editor
- making file management easy for users

The above issues take up most of my time in supporting end users.
It steals time from doing the cool stuff.

I haven't seen these topics covered elsewhere in the sessions list, so I hope you will consider discussing them during the suck fest :}