By 5dayapp on

Drupal is an awesome project. There's tons of wonderful people contributing to the cause, the product, the people who are using Drupal, etc. But, there's one big lacking community feature: simple conversations.

Maybe it's because it's such a complex system. Maybe it's because there are legacy methods of communicating that folks have grown accustom to using. Maybe the abuse methods of communicating on a topic keep the newbs and dweebs from gumming up the works. There are a few free and somewhat better organized methods of holding such conversations, and I wonder if it's likely or possible the team members are considering these as alternatives to what we're doing now.

Just thinking.

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vm’s picture

vm commented

simple conversation takes place in IRC see: http://drupal.org/irc
there is the general discussion forum for casual conversation about drupal.

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silverwing commented

drupal.org is very old school. (IRC and CVS).

But this site is designed as a large working group - and some of the community-ness that other sites have is missing - though I don't think WordPress or Joomla sites are community-sites/conversation sites. Even Ubuntu has a seperate forum for its discussions.

People have already suggested Meebo type chatrooms on drupal.or - but I doubt that will happen.

The best way to get better (off-topic) conversation on this site is to be specific about what you want, file an issue with the webmasters, and present your ideas and arguments and be ready to battle the resources/spam/security aspects of it.

~silverwing