General discussion

I think it might be a good time to revisit the numbers from this post about the growth rate of the Drupal project. In a little more than 6 months Drupal has added more than 20 thousand members:

38861 users on November 9th, 2005
62365 users (and counting) Today

In pure numerical terms, users are jumping on board in greater numbers than before, although the huge growth rate has come down from the past.

Hi,
In the new Drupal 4.7, one of the new features being talked about is IP blocking and how it should have been included years ago. But how many ISP's offer a static IP address, to standard customers. So a spammer posts 10,000 comments, shuts down his computer, gets a new IP and starts all over again. Am I missing out on something, if so please tell me.
Ben

Hi, I'm having a little trouble with the working the logo into my site (as do a lot of people apparently).
url:mbpgsu.ca

Installed Drupal 4.7 /CVS last weekend, sweet.. But I haven’t figured out what the B link under all story nodes are good for.
http://gpt.nu

One other thing, I'm getting periodically Security errors with gallery+gallery.module, anyone who have seen those?

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how access control works. Here's the scenario...

I created a Member role. So I have anonymous user, authenticated user, and Member.

I do not want anonymous or authenticated to access certain pages, so I set them to access all pages except member/*.

However, because the Member role inherits the authenicated user permissions, the Member role also cannot access the member pages. And I cannot determine how to configure permissions so that I can restrict authenicated users but override those restrictions with created roles.

I was going to use Drupal for a content management site that I am working on for a client, but I have found it to be way too complicated. All I really need is user/login/roles and content with content-types (i.e. I can specify how many and what kind of fields I need for each kind of content. i.e. 'News' might have title, subtitle, main content, while 'Resume' might have name, college, work experience, etc.). Oh, and I might need some upload funcationality, but I think that I can be flexible on this since I've seen some PHP mini-projects that could handle this no problem.