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I'm trying to see if theres any interest in this before I go through trying to develop it. I'm thinking of creating a spam blocker plugin that is dependent on the account user's IP address ("Bad IP", they don't get through sort of thing).
Has anyone does this before? Been successful? Can you link me to them if you think so?
Regardless, suggestions on improving it? I might try to tweak an existing one. Features, personalization, user friendliness, etc?
Wrote a Drupal tutorial about how to use Rules, Taxonomy, Views, CCK (drupal 6) or Fields (drupal 7), and Roles. Would love to hear from anyone who has built something similar, or is looking to build something like this to give me some feedback on the proposed method shown in the tut.
I have a personal site that I work on in my spare time and have been running on Drupal 7 for a couple of years now. My problem is that it seems like 99% of the people signing up for my site are notorious spammers (I've been checking on http://www.stopforumspam.com/ ).
Currently, I've just cleaned out my user base and set the site registration to email verification and administration approval. The problem with this is that I know the extra step of admin verification will lower my site registration.
After working with Drupal for almost 3 years, I really need to vent somewhere how Drupal sucks. For a backgrounder, I'm more of a sysadmin type rather than a developer or a designer.
Just to be upfront, I clearly chose Drupal for a reason and I believe that Drupal is still the right choice, I love its strengths and it's clearly a leader in many respects. But at the same time, what I want to address are things that Drupal really sucks at doing and it really shouldn't have to be. And I'm not talking about UX at all.
Image support: Time and again I get complaints about how we can't do stuff with images like other sites (e.g. WordPress) do. Drupal 6 does not have image handling in core and I ended up spending a long time figuring out how to do images in a futureproof way. Drupal 7 has image handling in core and that's wonderful, but still, image handling has been taken such a back seat for so long that it really make Drupal lack behind the competition. I tested dozen of image gallery modules and most of them are like a throw back to 2005: no AJAX, no lightbox, no fancy slideshow. If I need anchor image for my node type, I have to define everything from scratch. Not that it's difficult, it's the fact that there's no uniform way to do it and such feature is pretty much expected of any CMS.
I have made the slow move to the .net framework and wont be using drupal for much besides my personal site. I just want to say that there is nothing like the community found here in D.O in the .Net sphere. Just finding tutorials on certain functionality is quite hard and time consuming, although there is a lot of pay-for resources, which is kinda not a surprise coming from a commercial system.
I do miss all this community stuff, but the push for .Net is a lot bigger where i am at and the amount of companies and private co.'s that have started making websites is massive. Drupal is better in terms of making sites, with what seems to be a better "engine" in that is has more power but i could setup a good looking wordpress site in less then half an hour ( i wouldnt but i could ) with that said , it has flooded the market where i am at to the point where even people are making sites on top of the work they are employed to do ( in a non IT area of expertise ), which made finding clients really tough and not an economically viable option at the moment.
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