I used Drupal for a couple of years, but my personal emphasis was on content management rather than system administration. That’s why I switched to WordPress.
I had an interesting email exchange with one of the Constellation professors at RPI after last week’s posting here about their work in semantic web technologies. I acknowledged that Drupal is more robust but that WordPress is much friendlier to me in my role as content creator. I don’t want to monitor logs and cron runs so much or manage the database to the extent that Drupal requires.
That’s why I switched over from Drupal last year, and so far I don’t regret it. I may go back someday. Who knows? But today I’m here on WordPress.
This morning I came across a provocative posting on RoboZen, blogged by Mariya Lysenkova, whose passions, it seems, include semantics and natural language process (okay, and long walks on the beach). She titled the post “Drupal Sucks.” As far as semantics go, a title like that kind of, um, sucks you in.
Why does Drupal suck? Let Mariya count the ways:
- Drupal Stores Just About Everything in the Database
- Drupal is Freaking Hard to Use and Has a High Learning Curve
- Drupal’s Design is Piss-Poor
- Drupal’s None Too Friendly
Mariya’s gotten a lot of feedback already. My favorite is from “Matt,” who writes, “You suck.”
Read the posting and the comments here.
