I'm not sure why folks in the #Drupal community are confused about how regular people and small organizations are finding the product hard to use after years and years and years of Dries pushing the project to be "enterprise-level".
Maybe instead of #StarShot, we should call it #DrupalTimeMachine where we try to correct the gigantic mistakes that we made in the past.
Especially the bit where they were telling people to move simple D7 sites to something else instead of migrating to D8+. This seems to be a complete 180 from that.
@jurgenhaas@mikemccaffrey I'm sorry I don't have the source bookmarked and indexed for easy retrieval, but I distinctly remember communication about upgrading from Drupal 7 that suggested moving to something other than Drupal for simple sites.
It was because it was "official" that it was memorable.
It was around the same time as the "Drupal is for ambitious websites" slogan, which further reinforced that Drupal isn't for simple sites.
#Drupal#Starshot: We're building a distribution but not calling it a distribution, including initiatives that we were doing anyway, to make it easier for users to do things quickly, but we don't know exactly what those things will be or how they will be implemented, but it can all be done in 8 months, because we are going to solve our governance problems by bypassing our usual governance process.
@phenaproxima@mikemccaffrey That's one of the biggest problems with this. Surprise! We have a major initiative that's been in the works, in private! Go on a scavenger hunt if you want to participate!
Where is the communication plan to help people learn about what is going on and how to contribute? There's a lot of people who've been disillusioned with Drupal's corporate focus. How do you plan to draw them back?
"The data which surprised me most was the adoption of AI. Only half of us are using AI at work, and only 3% of us are incorporating AI into our Drupal sites. I personally feel like this is a huge missed opportunity. Like or loathe it, the genie is out of the bottle and I think we all have to adapt."
Why is it that AI Evangelicals so often fall back to the fallacy of inevitability to justify the superiority of their enthusiasm?
LB: Yet another interesting, worrying and infuriating article about the state of the internet as it games Google search rankings.
"If Google keeps rewarding useless overly-optimized SEO content written by AI published on big media sites while punishing little sites because they wrote articles trying to answer a question readers have, then fuck Google."
@mattferrell@neverbeaten I've had similar thoughts: it seems so inefficient to have the fridge pumping out heat, making the surrounding air warmer, and our hybrid water heater sucking the heat in, but a different part of the house, making that region colder. There ought to be some way (even just forced air transfer) to move heat around more efficiently than whole-house convection. And you get more even overall air temp in the house to boot.
@mikemccaffrey@b0rk Nice! The only thing I'd add is that under "important git files" I would add .git/info/exclude for stuff that's relevant only to my local environment, and doesn't need to be cluttering up my .gititnore file. I use that ALL the time.
@jurgenhaas I have a 14 year old husky who's going through the same transformation, with arthritis and declining mobility being the biggest challenges. But she's still happy, so we're doing what we can to support her.
@mglaman Nice! I was trying to imagine doing a DIY of all the platform-specific formats out there on top of opengraph and thinking that could be a deep rabbit hole to chase down.