General discussion

In this article I might be wrong at any of the parts as Drupal is huge and my knowledge might be not up to date and I might be wrong anyways. These are my thoughts currently that I want to share them with the Drupal Community...

I really think Drupal has a few issues. These are mainly related to previous generations of Drupal. Current Drupal versions come with pretty much relations to previous ones.

I started using Drupal like 2 years ago. Maybe earlier. I really loved its idea however before finding drupal I've started writing my own CMS. When I didn't even know about the expression 'CMS'. This thing doesn't mean much. It only means i really understand the basic reason why it was made.

My belief is that things can be much easier. Here I am about putting some idea together how Drupal can be (and hopefully will be) much better.

1. No exceptions: Each and every node type info (publishing options, display settings) should be normal fields. With all the options a field gives: Widgets, Formatters, etc. On Entity Type Properties there are Title, Author, etc now. Great. We need all the rest I believe.

I think a few things can improve user experience and reduce learning curve. These are:

I read an article in Web Designer magazine this month about dropping Drupal and going back to coding in php (with Codeigniter.)

Finding the Perfect CMS: SubHub CEO Evan Rudowski reveals why they abandoned the Drupal platform and looked elsewhere for a solution.

It didn't leave the reader with a good impression of Drupal.

I believe there will be no harm if Drupal community learns about an interesting discussion on Acquia's business practices going on currently in Wordpress community, namely on the personal blog of their project lead. Matt for Wordpress community is like Dries for us:

http://ma.tt/2013/03/the-redhat-of-drupal

Personally I think it's just ok for Acquia staff-member to approach anyone with that kind of advertisement. It is just little awkward when another world-wide popular CMS' lead is targeted and invited to switch to Drupal :)

What worse is not Acquia's methods of expanding, but Acquia's blocking its competitors from getting listed on http://drupal.org/hosting. We (http://drupion.com) have applied numerous times and we meet all their requirements, however they keep asking for evidences of our contributions to the community and declining our requests. The Association never could present the evidences of what kind of great contributions to the community have been made by some of the following companies, which somehow got listed in "Other great hosts" section: 2020Media, CiviHosting, Cruiskeen, EchoDitto, Egressive Limited, Holistic Solutions' HotDrupal.com, Koumbit.org, Promet Solutions.

@theneonlobster and I are interested in building a module that significantly improves the UI for Drupal module management.

Essentially, we would like to model it off of the Wordpress approach to plugin management, which:

I'm the Drupal developer for the Oxfam International Drupal site, and I'm doing a charity bike ride from London to Paris in July 2013 in aid of Action Medical Research, a great children's charity dedicated to improving the health of babies and children through advances in medicine.