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About time they shifted to Drupal. WP seems to be going down on security pretty bad.

Does TC have programmers? Why then would they use Drupal? Drupal for programmers is some of the most horrible code I've ever come across. Hey let's look at this back trace of THOUSANDS of functions.

-Unfortunately responsible for maintaining a Drupal install at work...

Thousands of functions? Then you're doing it wrong. Drupal has the best documented API and tons of extensibility. Unless you're trying to change what Drupal is at its core, doing stuff is never impossible or even that difficult. Make sure you're using Devel: http://drupal.org/project/devel

Unfortunately I'm stuck with Drupal 6. And if you do a backtrace in any custom module there will literally be thousands of functions listed. It may have 'tons of extensibility' but at least Drupal 6 is a cluster mess. Sure it may give less experienced programmers ability to do things quickly but as a more experienced programmer I find the rigidity of it to be stifling.

As an engineer, I won't take your argument of "thousands" of functions in a custom module. Also, yes, Drupal is far more complex than any other CMS because it's not a CMS. It's more like a framework you use to build your own mini-CMS. You can customize it to your needs a lot more than WP.

Drupal is such a complex pig, a custom solution would be much better. Especially for someone as big as TechCrunch.

"... for someone as big as TechCrunch"

Huh? How does "big" make them deserve a custom solution? Huge behemoths like nowPublic.com and spreadfirefox.com run Drupal. Heck, economist.com is >>> techcrunch, and they're dropping their custom solution and shifting to Drupal. IMO, "big" is the least of their concerns if they want to switch to Drupal. TC is perfect example of a website wanting content management. Content is what they deal with.

But, I will say Drupal is not the answer to all problems. For example: if your application deals primarily with data that can't be classified broadly into "content". Like last.fm or chesspark.com or etherpad.com... you get me.

See also: whitehouse.gov (which uses drupal)

Static pages generated by drupal. Not the same thing.

"Big" means that you can hire the people to create your in-house framework or whatever.

> economist.com is >>> techcrunch

Wrong.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com+economist.co...

I don't think OP meant in page views, rather in the level or requirements. For example, The Economist has a lot more writers/editors/designers/etc who all have different needs from the system, many not necessarily very computer literate etc.

Page views alone aren't that big a deal in a content website like TC/Econ - you can do plenty of caching, buy more servers etc. Serving the needs of all the various people involved in an Economist-type publication is where the challenge is.

A lot of WP sites that get exploited have been due to the FTP password jacking / iframe exploit. Typically WP is quite reliable with fast patches preventing catastrophe.

Why not Ruby/Rails? Django/Python? you don't hear these sites being compromised so easily?

Is that because there are less of them?

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