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I won a contest at work to showcase a #Drupal site! I get $200 US to spend on the town, to be used sometime within the next 6 months. I can’t disclose which site it was (it was not mine, I’ll put it that way), but it used Drupal to build a unique experience in a unique way, both in a good and bad way. It matched my hope that the software could be used to build applications, not “just” websites.
I’ve just had a thought (I know 🙄), I’m currently revamping the theme picker on my website and obviously I’m wanting to keep accessibility considerations in mind in doing that.
The question that has popped into my head, would it just be better to hide the theme picker in forced-colors mode?
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"There is no website being small enough, not to be perfectly suitable to be done with Drupal."
In other words: #Drupal is suitable also for small (and simple) sites. This is even more true with Drupal 10. And with Drupal as your underlying framework, your site easily grows with your requirements - and if they didn't grow, that's fine too!
My thesis in the blog post: "...not having a budget for a Drupal 7 to 10 update makes me wonder where the budget for the continued use of either outdated, or in the case of switching the platform, less capable technology should come from"
My prediction is, that a #Drupal 10 upgrade will pay back in the long run. But I'm not pushing anyone, it's more like providing a perspective which may help people see a bigger picture.
Exactly, Tim. Like many developers this article fails to understand the kind of organizations that are using #Drupal 7. It's not just a matter of the cost of rebuilding the entire site. People who spent years developing the skills to manage D7 now have to learn multiple entirely new and sometimes more complicated tools and languages. That's just not going to happen at many grassroots & nonprofit organizations.
And this really bums me out because it's just these kinds of users and site builders that adopted and evangelized Drupal from about 2005 to 2016. When Dries started taking about "ambitious" sites, we knew he wasn't taking about us.
@ruby@stpaultim@ultimike I take your point, still the reflection is worth having. There are so many professions that had decades of knowledge and experience, which eventually became less usefull - and they all have to progress. The same happens in the "web industry", just at a much much higher pace.
This is where my argument comes from: the longer you don't learn the new tricks, the more expensive it becomes.
@ruby@stpaultim@ultimike Sorry, I'm not seeing how this is a conclusion of what I've said before. It's just the opposite: learning new tools is very important, so Drupal is not leavoing anyone behind, it is the highway to the future.
That #Drupal is only for enterprises is a myth, that doesn get true just because we continue to repeat it.
And the cost for owning a Drupal site has never been lover than today, and as I explained in my blog cost, it's declining even more.
"And the cost for owning a Drupal site has never been lover than today."
I haven't heard anyone else claim this. Maybe the cost of owning a symphonic #Drupal site is lower than it has been, but are you really suggesting that it was more expensive to own a Drupal 7 site than it is to own a Drupal 10 site today?
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