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Comment by muppetman | Hacker News Reader

When I first moved to New Zealand, I started a diary (before the term blog existed!) using PHP-Nuke. After a while, PHP-Nuke imploded and so I migrated to PostNuke. After a while it imploded so I migrated to Drupal. I had a choice at that stage between Drupal (version 4 it was) and Wordpress. Wordpress still had that "holes, billions of holes" stigma, so I went with Drupal. Long story short, that's why my online diary (not linked anywhere) runs Drupal 10 to this day. It's now WAY overkill, but it still works well. I've looked at moving it to Wordpress, or to some static generator but I've got over 3000 entries now and the migration never works very well.

I still find Drupal very easy to work with - my biggest gripe with it was when they just quietly started changing to not downloading .tar.gz but to using composer. And just assuming everyone knew what composer was and how it worked. In the end the friction it was causing me made me learn how to use it.

Anyway my point of this rambling post is that as a USER of Drupal - it's great. I don't write any code, but I can shuffle my website around as I please very easily, adding widgets, changing what's exposed both in the UI and RSS etc.

I didn't quite realise how uncool it was to still use Drupal until I read all these comments! :)

PHP-Nuke... now there's something I haven't thought about in a couple of decades. Still being updated, apparently! https://github.com/phpnuke/phpnuke/commit/96dbb962317c766f6b...

Yeah I don't think they ever stopped, it's just the PostNuke fork had a better community behind it with a deeper focus on security. Then they stopped developing it and instead released a think called Xaria or a similar name, but it never had a strong community.

PHp-Nuke when I installed it I couldn't believe. My own Slashdot!! With comments! It was amazing.

Good days very so. Uploading in 56k. I miss being 13.

Big fan of e107 for my CS:S clan websites.

0 : https://e107.org

Oh wow e107 takes me back to my early days of working on websites for my latest gaming obsession !

Thanks for sharing a positive experience!

As a user, have you tried any similar CMS offerings at all? Either a totally WYSIWYG page builder like Wix/Squarespace, modern Wordpress with the block editor, a headless CMS, etc.?

Just wondering what your experience is... like is Drupal just "good enough" so you never wanted to switch, or did you investigate several options and choose Drupal because it's better in some way?

Yeah I've got a WordPress blog I self host as well. Having seen how well it's matured I wish I'd picked it back in 2003-4 when I switched. I've also had a good play with Hugo which I absolutely love. I tried to export my Drupal site to it, but all my old shortlinks broke and it doesn't support making some posts private and available to only some people etc. So in the end I've stuck with Drupal, I know most of its warts. The key thing is not to use many 3rd party modules, because often they will hold you back from upgrading to the next release until they are upgraded, if they ever are. Now I stick with mostly core modules except for a few I need for other features I require (mostly making some posts needing you to be logged in to view)

You might want to also check out memos. Nothing like Drupal or WP, but for saving notes/entries/memos and having a very simple system to make some posts public, some only shared with a small group, and some completely private, it's a very elegant system. https://github.com/usememos/memos

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