On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Ross Bencina wrote:
Hey Bjorn,
On 5/04/2012 1:52 AM, Bjorn Roche wrote:
Any thoughts about modernizing the whole thing with a fresh CMS?
I think it would be easier to maintain, have built-in spam
filters, and it would be easier to have multiple people do the
work. Plus it would look more attractive. I don't think it would
take much effort to redo the whole thing in, say, drupal.
Have you ever set up a Drupal site? I have. It is not for
small-time, non-commercial, low-maintenance overhead projects
imho.
Yes. Quite a few.
Imho it would be a huge job to port the current site to Drupal and
there is a lot of ongoing maintenance required to keep security
patches up to date etc etc.
Yes. The biggest problem is security updates. You are right: major
PITA factor. This can be mitigated by a hosted solution, or a
multi-site install where someone is already monitoring the site for
security updates. But, at the end of the day, that might not be
realistic.
Doing the theme port alone would be a lot of work.
I would not dream of porting the existing theme, but rather use a
new, or built-in theme.
Unless I'm completely out of touch it is really non-trivial to set
up something like musicdsp.org in Drupal with adequate spam
filtering. The standard Drupal capcha solution (Mollom) is not
great -- in my experience it flags a lot of false positives (spam
that isn't spam).
Mollom sucks. Captchas alone catch the vast majority of spam. The
rest can be handled with moderation.
Anyway, this is really just a vote against Drupal for musicdsp.org,
not against using a CMS.
I actually think the current ad-hoc php solution is not so bad --
but Bram knows more about these things than me.
Recaptcha could be added to the existing site with fairly little
effort, but there are other advantages to a CMS: they are easier to
team-manage, organize, and they have a number of potentially useful
features like taxonomies (giving the ability to tag and categorize
algos by language and purpose for example.)
bjorn
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