I love this list u/friedinando originally posted this list on r/drupal because it included both projects I am excited about as well as projects I didn't know about. Unfortunately the comment was on a thread about alternatives to Drupal that was a lower than average quality variation of a discussion that's been had hundreds of...
The revolutionary ActivityPub feature is now available across all WordPress.com plans, unlocking a world of engagement and interaction for your blog. Your blogs can now be part of the rapidly expanding fediverse, which enables you to connect with a broader audience and attract more followers.
Heather Meeker spoke at DrupalCon at a fireside chat session with Tim Lehnen in 2021. Her new book will likely be something many Drupal developers would benefit from reading. Not just for people hoping to profit from Drupal, but to help those of us committed to FOSS understand the world of Commercial Open Source Software (COSS).
@br00t4c I don't believe that interviewer casually dropped the billions Skift estimates AirBnB could make enshittifying their app and selling the audience trying to book a place to stay to someone selling tours or discounted meals. The article read more like a PR piece where Brian answered the cleaning fee question for the millionth time in exchange for being and to push regulating emerging competition, critize NYC and keep the stock from crashing because they have billions in untapped ad revenue that he alone can now deliver at 5x the velocity without PMs and the right User Story.
He's like a parent jingling keys to distract a child so the forget they are sitting in a shitty diaper. AirBnB doesn't work when owners are forced to pay the same taxes as hotels and there are enough rooms to handle peek demand empty most of the time. Hotels can normalize those costs. Individual owners with 3 or 4 properties just go bankrupt.
Adam Frisch came within 600 votes of defeating Boebert without this much money to spend. The money is likely given freely now by people who hate Boebert more than they like Frisch. They never want to hear about this trashier version of Sarah Palin again and donate make sure he wins, but if the donations are primarily coming from outside his conservative district, this election could still be decided by Trump's ability to motivate people who would still enthusiasticly vote Boebert to show up at the polls. If that happens and true conservatives just sit this one out rather than voting for "the other side", CO may end up sending this train wreck back to DC.
One of the saddest parts of an #opensource maintainer's life is having to reject PRs, sometimes thousands of lines long, for no better reason than "this is not the project's direction right now and it will interfere with what we're working on".
I don't know where the "write code first ask questions later" approach came from, but I really wish we'd communicate with each other more. The fallout of not doing so isn't fun for anyone.
@imsnif in some (many?) cases the feature in the PR is going to be written regardless of whether a maintainer wants it or not because that's the feature some paid them to add or their personal project/side hustle needed. What many contributors are hoping is someone else maintains and improves the feature as the project moves forward so they don't have to maintain a fork.
Part of being a good leader is stepping down gracefully. I have been trying to step down from the SF #drupal community for 2 years.
I learned that BADCamp's hackathon will be hosted & sponsored by Pantheon.
I was not graceful. I left immediately, not caring about a replacement.
Pantheon's Acceptable Use Policy does not align with my values as long as Pantheon continues to provide services to Alliance Defending Freedom & other recognized hate groups.
@volkswagenchick as a CO resident, we hear more about Kristen Waggoner's cases as they work their way through CO courts to the Supreme Court than the average person. The ADFL site didn't end up being hosted on Pantheon by accident. She wants them to deplatform their site so she can sue and under the current court, she will win. What you are asking Pantheon to do is corporate suicide.
@jurgenhaas that is not what I'm saying at all. I thought I was being very clear that deplatforming the lawyer who recently won 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and provides legal strategy training to right wing organizations about deplatforming when the organization hasn't done anything illegal would be the type of short sighted, knee-jerk reaction they are hoping for. This is a poison pill that Kristen Waggoner is hoping to use to set even more legal precedent.
If you have noticed an increasing number of issues being closed with this text or something similar, you are not alone. Support for Drupal 9 is ending. Issues that cannot be reproduced in a supported version of Drupal are being closed....
In the past months, there’s a been a issue in various instances where accounts would start uploading blatant CSAM to popular communities. First of all this traumatizes anyone who gets to see it before the admins get to it, including the admins who have to review to take it down. Second of all, even if the content is a link to...
Sounds like progress, but please consider using a term other than "whitelist" when describing a list of allowed values. While the use of blacklist predates references to black as a race, allowlist is a reasonable alternative that doesn't reinforce viewing black as less than or unwanted and white as allowed.
Sounds like progress, but please consider using a term other than "whitelist" when describing a list of allowed values. While the use of blacklist predates references to black as a race, allowlist is a reasonable alternative that doesn't reinforce viewing black as less than or unwanted and white as allowed.
I often give #Drupal a hard time due to all the eccentricates of the community and the code, but seeing the sudden #enshittification of #unity really makes me appreciate contributing to a non-corporate #openSource project.
@mikemccaffrey true, but when you are selling critical features as "value-added services" like https://www.acquia.com/drupal/site-studio, that influences the initiatives that are priorities. Being the BDFL of the DA AND the CTO with a fiduciary responsibility to investors is a hard line to walk. I think Dries does it better than most, but you don't have to look very hard to find long-term contributors who feel their work has already been "enshittified" and sold to corporate interests. The principles of #backdropcms community defined in https://backdropcms.org/philosophy are basically a response to being feeling "enshitted" on. Others (including myself) see Drupal's evolution to the best CMS configuration built on Symfony as essential to remain relevant. While not corporate, I am now working with Drupal at an enterprise level. I can see why some of the smaller non-profits I worked with in past feel abused.
/kbin is certainly not dying, as @fr0g pointed out, work on new features and bug fixes is ongoing. However, it may give the impression that it is, and for that, I take full responsibility and owe you an explanation....
You might reach out to https://indieweb.social/@dries. He's talked openly about some of the challenges his project has had scaling and less openly about how personally he takes it when he can't solve problems with the project/contributor community. Drupal is a very mature community that has been able to foster a lot of trust between longtime contributors. What you've accomplished with Kbin already is amazing. Give yourself time to figure out how to delegate in a way that works for you. Focus on finding the right people and process over an arbitrary date.
#Drupal is still going strong as a CMS, whether you're using it as a rendering engine, headless, or as a back office system. How do you view Drupal? Is it vibrant and modern? Do you think it is leftovers and time to drop like a hot potato? For me, I see a great future with the most active open-source project in the world. Share your thoughts!
@Creech while many universities pay vendors, a large number now have internal teams contributing back to Drupal directly. We don't contribute as much as agencies selling Drupal, but higher ed groups like Penn State start showing up on page 3 of https://www.drupal.org/organizations?page=2.
The legal representation of the voting machine companies are a box of pupies compared to the big pharma lawyers. IANAL, but this sounds like textbook defamation.
Is it the Google Recipe problem? I started https://fosstodon.org/@drupal-planet@feedsin.space when I was looking at auto-posting planet content to https://kbin.social/m/drupal/, but as Mastodon continues to catch on and the Kbin community has grown (now 50 subscribers) most of the non-spam articles are already showing up as federated "microblogs" using the #drupal hashtag or being posted as Articles by real human users. I reach out to agencies from time to time when they post general web/project management, "look at us" type posts that have nothing to do with Drupal, but even the Drupal-related content is getting "spammier" lately.
I didn't delete my account and still read https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/, but I only comment when I think the user would have better luck posting to https://kbin.social/m/drupal or https://kbin.social/m/php. The Kbin version of the Drupal community only has 50 subscribers, but some articles get the same number of upvotes/favorites on Kbin as they do on Reddit now. Drupal users have their own Mastodon instance at https://drupal.community/ and the founder/lead of the project is active on https://indieweb.social/@dries, so it doesn't take much to convince that community to move the conversation to an open, ActivityPub based platform.
ActivityPub is @talkingdrupal's Module of the Week. It implements the ActivityPub protocol on your site, so readers can follow and respond to content on Fediverse sites like Mastodon, and in the future maybe Threads?
Beginning today, Drupal core issues reported to the Security Team with risk levels that are "Not Critical", "Less Critical", or "Moderately Critical" may be treated as bugs in the public issue queue, not as private security issues requiring a security advisory and CVE.
@thudfactor take a look at https://haxtheweb.org/. The people driving that project drank the Web Component koolaid years ago and now have some fully baked features.
Releases are cheap. Don't make people switch to dev or apply patches. If you're not going to cut a release because you're waiting for an extra issue, ie to bundle a couple of fixes, point people to that issue so they can help get it done and get the release out faster. In npm land many use semantic-release which auto creates a...
According to a recent report, revenue per available listing (RevPAL) from Airbnb (ABNB -2.68%)-listed properties is down by 35% or more in 15 major U.S. cities. In this video, Certified Financial Planner® Matt Frankel and Fool.com contributor Tyler Crowe discuss whether this could be trouble for the vacation rental disruptor or...
On April 20, 2023, a LinkedIn post sparked a debate in the Drupal community and eventually led to Ars Technica covering the story. The post was a simple question; would the hosting platform Pantheon explain why they were hosting the website of an SPLC-designated hate group. Like so many other divisive topics in the public...
So I created a magazine (which is similar to a subreddit, correct?) - what now? How do I even find my own? They don't show anywhere in my profile nor do I see any moderator tools, etc.
@acunasdaddy you can find magazines by searching from https://kbin.social/magazines. The Articles posted to the magazines you subscribe to show up in your feed. Microblogs are just aggregate content from the Fediverse. The moderation tools are limited, but what exists can be found by clicking the Magazine Panel button.
All of Kbin is very much a work in progress. A lot of things work as expected. Some don't. Be patient and pay it forward by helping others figure this out when you can.
Enhance your Drupal website with the powerful News Ticker module, providing seamless scrolling news updates and easy management for administrators. Engage and inform your audience with this dynamic tool.
It is common knowledge that women are an underrepresented group in the tech industry and the Drupal community is no exception. We are very fortunate at ImageX to have some formidable talent on our team who identify as women and we’re pleased to have supported some of those individuals to attend DrupalCon Pittsburgh.
Ensure a smooth transition to Drupal 10 with our comprehensive website audit. Identify potential issues, optimize performance, and enhance security. Get ready for a seamless Drupal migration.
For Drupaljam 2023 I was asked to give a talk on how to make your Drupal website less polluting and more climate friendly. I share tactics and tricks on how to reduce the CO2 impact of your site.
The best government web designs focus on user journeys, accessibility, ease of navigation, flexible content management capabilities and a prominent showcasing of local events.
California’s many half-empty office buildings and vacant big-box stores may soon get new leases on life. Thanks to local and state efforts to loosen land-use laws, developers in California will soon find it much easier to convert commercial properties into apartments, condominiums and townhomes....
There have been a few vacant big box retail locations near me that have been converted into office/lab spaces recently. The renovations took years. I'm guessing they had to add a lot of elecrtical and plumbing in addition to completely reworking the HVAC. Going from office to residential would be even more work.
@xc2215x the irony that some the improvements made to modernize the version of PHP it runs on were contributed by Facebook and the fact that it's Twig template files can be modified by anyone familiar with HTML and CSS. You don't need to know PHP to contribute improvements.
So is Kbin. Both projects use the AGPL license, but Kbin is a PHP/Symfony based solution while Lemmy is primarily a Rust backend with a Typescript front end. If someone is going to run an instance or contribute to the code, they are likely going to choose the stack that they are most familiar with.
With a lot of #Drupal experience, the Kbin code is very approachable for me... but as other commenters have already said... whatever floats your boat.
The Kbin and Lemmy projects aren't competing as much with each other as the ActivityPub driven communities are competing with the walled gardens.
The initial release of the kit includes some basic tests and a series of useful utility functions. These early parts should be useful to all teams; see the documentation for more detail. Here are the categories of utility functions:...
Discover the powerful collaboration of CKEditor 5 and Drupal 10, igniting innovation in content creation. Explore the cutting-edge features and seamless integration that revolutionize the way you create and manage content.
DrupalCon Pittsburgh was held from June 5 to 9. We were there to promote our work, meet with fellow Drupalists from around the country and beyond, and put an ear to the ground for news on all things Drupal.
By far, 2023 has been a turbulent year for the IT industry. Numerous professionals had to suffer from the excruciating pain of being laid off. Even those working at tech giants such as Google, Meta, and Microsoft had to swallow the bitter pill of sudden unemployment. However, the ‘State of the Tech Workforce’ report by...
✨ What is your favorite thing about kbin? ✨
Here are mine! A handful of things come to mind right away, but there are plenty more:...
Some Unique Drupal Gems
I love this list u/friedinando originally posted this list on r/drupal because it included both projects I am excited about as well as projects I didn't know about. Unfortunately the comment was on a thread about alternatives to Drupal that was a lower than average quality variation of a discussion that's been had hundreds of...
ActivityPub now available on all WordPress.com sites. Why isn't there more ActivityPub interest in Drupal? (wordpress.com)
The revolutionary ActivityPub feature is now available across all WordPress.com plans, unlocking a world of engagement and interaction for your blog. Your blogs can now be part of the rapidly expanding fediverse, which enables you to connect with a broader audience and attract more followers.
From Project to Profit - Heather Meeker (a.co)
Heather Meeker spoke at DrupalCon at a fireside chat session with Tim Lehnen in 2021. Her new book will likely be something many Drupal developers would benefit from reading. Not just for people hoping to profit from Drupal, but to help those of us committed to FOSS understand the world of Commercial Open Source Software (COSS).
Lauren Boebert critics cheer as she gets "devastating" fundraising news (www.newsweek.com)
Critics of Republican Representative Lauren Boebert had something to celebrate on Thursday....
If you are experiencing this problem on a supported version of Drupal, reopen the issue. (www.google.com)
If you have noticed an increasing number of issues being closed with this text or something similar, you are not alone. Support for Drupal 9 is ending. Issues that cannot be reproduced in a supported version of Drupal are being closed....
I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
In the past months, there’s a been a issue in various instances where accounts would start uploading blatant CSAM to popular communities. First of all this traumatizes anyone who gets to see it before the admins get to it, including the admins who have to review to take it down. Second of all, even if the content is a link to...
Is Kbin dying? I wanted to address the deleted thread and provide some insight into the current situation.
/kbin is certainly not dying, as @fr0g pointed out, work on new features and bug fixes is ongoing. However, it may give the impression that it is, and for that, I take full responsibility and owe you an explanation....
Louisiana AG hopeful Liz Murrill randomly claims abortion pills may be laced with fentanyl (Spoiler alert: they are not) (www.nola.com)
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Talking Drupal Module of the Week: ActivityPub (www.youtube.com)
ActivityPub is @talkingdrupal's Module of the Week. It implements the ActivityPub protocol on your site, so readers can follow and respond to content on Fediverse sites like Mastodon, and in the future maybe Threads?
Philadelphia is cracking down on Airbnb and Vrbo. Locals are torn over whether it's a good thing. (www.businessinsider.com)
The city plans to remove unlicensed properties from the platform. The reaction of locals makes it clear the issue isn't black and white.
PSA-2023-07-12: Drupal core issues with some risk levels may be treated as bugs in the public issue queue, not as private security issues (www.drupal.org)
Beginning today, Drupal core issues reported to the Security Team with risk levels that are "Not Critical", "Less Critical", or "Moderately Critical" may be treated as bugs in the public issue queue, not as private security issues requiring a security advisory and CVE.
Dear #drupal module maintainers. If you merge a bugfix, cut a release. (fosstodon.org)
Releases are cheap. Don't make people switch to dev or apply patches. If you're not going to cut a release because you're waiting for an extra issue, ie to bundle a couple of fixes, point people to that issue so they can help get it done and get the release out faster. In npm land many use semantic-release which auto creates a...
New Colorado tax credit includes boon for game developers (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Developers making games in Colorado can now apply for a 20 percent tax credit.
A recent report shows Airbnb bookings are down as much as 48% year over year in certain cities. (www.fool.com)
According to a recent report, revenue per available listing (RevPAL) from Airbnb (ABNB -2.68%)-listed properties is down by 35% or more in 15 major U.S. cities. In this video, Certified Financial Planner® Matt Frankel and Fool.com contributor Tyler Crowe discuss whether this could be trouble for the vacation rental disruptor or...
Response to Pantheon's DrupalCon Round Table | andy-blum.com (andy-blum.com)
On April 20, 2023, a LinkedIn post sparked a debate in the Drupal community and eventually led to Ars Technica covering the story. The post was a simple question; would the hosting platform Pantheon explain why they were hosting the website of an SPLC-designated hate group. Like so many other divisive topics in the public...
How do scripts work, and how can I be sure they are safe?
I keep seeing recommendations for scripts, but I’m not eager to just start installing a bunch of random stuff on my phone.
Setting up PHPDocumentor 3 for Drupal 9 & 10 | kevinquillen.com (kevinquillen.com)
A long time ago, I wrote about setting up PHPDocumentor 2 for Drupal in PHPStorm.
News Ticker Module: Enhancing Drupal Websites with Scrolling News Updates (www.thedroptimes.com)
Enhance your Drupal website with the powerful News Ticker module, providing seamless scrolling news updates and easy management for administrators. Engage and inform your audience with this dynamic tool.
Interview with Carol Pettirossi: Reflecting on DrupalCon Pittsburgh and being a Woman in Drupal (imagexmedia.com)
It is common knowledge that women are an underrepresented group in the tech industry and the Drupal community is no exception. We are very fortunate at ImageX to have some formidable talent on our team who identify as women and we’re pleased to have supported some of those individuals to attend DrupalCon Pittsburgh.
Drupal Website Audit for Seamless Drupal 10 Migration (www.lnwebworks.com)
Ensure a smooth transition to Drupal 10 with our comprehensive website audit. Identify potential issues, optimize performance, and enhance security. Get ready for a seamless Drupal migration.
How to create a sustainable Drupal website (Drupaljam 2023 presentation) | Robert Roose: Designer (robertroose.com)
For Drupaljam 2023 I was asked to give a talk on how to make your Drupal website less polluting and more climate friendly. I share tactics and tricks on how to reduce the CO2 impact of your site.
Cypress Testing Framework Conversation (www.palantir.net)
Jill Farley, Ken Rickard, and Byron Duvall discuss their experiences with the Cypress front-end testing framework.
Moderate All the Content: Establishing Workflows in Drupal 10 | Bounteous (www.bounteous.com)
Learn about workflow configuration and customizations to empower your website’s content approver and publisher roles.
Best Government Website Design Trends for 2023 (www.prometsource.com)
The best government web designs focus on user journeys, accessibility, ease of navigation, flexible content management capabilities and a prominent showcasing of local events.
Editorial: Turn office buildings into apartments to beat housing crisis - Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
California’s many half-empty office buildings and vacant big-box stores may soon get new leases on life. Thanks to local and state efforts to loosen land-use laws, developers in California will soon find it much easier to convert commercial properties into apartments, condominiums and townhomes....
Be patient! We'll get there eventually.
I see a lot of comments pointing out bugs and saying something along the lines like "they need to fix this ASAP, otherwise... something something"....
Introducing Automated Testing Kit | Performant Labs (performantlabs.com)
The initial release of the kit includes some basic tests and a series of useful utility functions. These early parts should be useful to all teams; see the documentation for more detail. Here are the categories of utility functions:...
CKEditor 5 & Drupal 10: Fueling Innovation in Content Creation (www.lnwebworks.com)
Discover the powerful collaboration of CKEditor 5 and Drupal 10, igniting innovation in content creation. Explore the cutting-edge features and seamless integration that revolutionize the way you create and manage content.
Hot Takes from DrupalCon Pittsburgh | Chapter Three (www.chapterthree.com)
DrupalCon Pittsburgh was held from June 5 to 9. We were there to promote our work, meet with fellow Drupalists from around the country and beyond, and put an ear to the ground for news on all things Drupal.
Libsyn Podcast : Talking Drupal #404 - Content Modeling (sacstudio.libsyn.com)
Today we are talking about Drupal Content Modeling with our hosts....
Igniting Brilliance: Unleashing the Star Power Within (www.thedroptimes.com)
Over the past few days, The Drop Times has been covering a myriad of captivating stories within the Drupal universe....
Empowering Developers for Growth in IT with Drupal (www.lnwebworks.com)
By far, 2023 has been a turbulent year for the IT industry. Numerous professionals had to suffer from the excruciating pain of being laid off. Even those working at tech giants such as Google, Meta, and Microsoft had to swallow the bitter pill of sudden unemployment. However, the ‘State of the Tech Workforce’ report by...