I understand I may be in the minority here, especially with the experienced drupal users (I have only been using drupal for 2 months) but having used both drupal 6 and 7 and used many of the same modules and themes for comparison, I cannot help but come to the conclusion that 6 is so much better and easier than 7. Does anyone agree or am I the only one who thinks this? If 8 is going to be as bad as 7 then personally I do not think anyone will look to upgrade.

Let me know your thoughts.

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nevets’s picture

I personally like 7 better, it would be interesting if you could expand on why you like 6 better.

qpro’s picture

shinoj999’s picture

Hello qpro , I will see the 20 Reasons and i like the Reason ,
Thank You .....

pixelsweatshop’s picture

IMHO if you think the 6 is better than 7 then you must be using it wrong. :)

7 builds on the foundation set by 6. We didn't throw everything out a rebuild from scratch. Everything that was there in 6 is there in7 and much more. How can you argue with a consistent entity API and field API. To get anything done in 6 we had to try and make everything a pseudo node. What a mess!! I cringe anytime a client comes out of the woodwork and asks me to do something on their d6 site.

Jaypan’s picture

I'd pick Drupal 7 10 times out of 10 when faced with a choice between D6 or D7.

VM’s picture

then personally I do not think anyone will look to upgrade.

They will unless they want to suffer the same fate as those who chose to remain at Drupal 5 and it became unsupported after Drupal 7 was released. Having to maintain a code base that is no longer supported by the community leaves your site in a precarious state when EOL occurs for core or the version of PHP the site currently runs on.

Jaypan’s picture

Drupal is so much better than drupal 7

Can you please edit the original post and fix the thread title.

theoracleprodigy’s picture

I am not sure what you mean it would be good to get some clarification on this statement. Personally I run 9 websites on Drupal and my only complaint with Drupal 7 has been the migration path. It is very painful and you end up rebuilding everything. There really are no modules that seem to work for migration depending on what you might have installed. Simple websites might have some great options but once you have domains, and all the modules forget it. I know people will point out modules but the only thing that has worked for me is feeds and xml exports. Then you start with a new install to me that seems quite drastic.

The other issue I have dealt with was learning how to do things in Drupal 7. From what I have seen things seem less dis jointed in Drupal 7 where Drupal 6 sometimes setting up rules, workflows, actions are all over the place. It is rare that I have found things in Drupal 6 that are not in Drupal 7. All your jquery and most editors are much newer versions which is good. The only issues I have had are with the javascript overlay interface which I have turned off on all my sites. Personally I love the expansion of rules, its so much more useful than it was. This has been the case in many areas in my experience that they have built on the foundation. I also like that you can go straight to the configuration screen from the modules page for any module. I still have not got media to work and a few other disappointments, but you still have the old ways as options. Either way I agree that Drupal 7 is an expansion of Drupal 6.

techandwebcreators’s picture

i like Drupal 7.
so many reason why i like 7 because:
1) All the UX improvements for admin interface

2) Not needing Pressflow to do reverse proxy caching

3) Entity API (not core)

4) PDO Database abstraction layer

5) The admin section is usually a lot easier to use and prettier with the admin theme, the overlay, the dashboard, and the admin toolbar (all of that is new in D7)

mikeoc’s picture

Unfortunately I tend to agree.

I learnt on D6 and built some sites to be proud of. D7 has just been one constant headache for me, Views in particular. I'm now at a point of walking away from Drupal completely, I don't want to but it seems that I come across roadblocks every five minutes these days.

Starminder’s picture

...but I'm with you. I used to LOVE Drupal. Then I upgraded (early) before D7 was truly "ready for primetime" and in some ways it is STILL not. There are many things to like about D7 when they work, but overall the contrib modules are a trainwreck, many just do not work (and these are must have modules!) or are just non-existent now. I used to have a great site and upgrading to D7 wrecked it. I've even started over from scratch and can't come close to how good it was when I was using D6. It could be base D7 is "better", but overall (face it, you need MANY contrib modules to have a cool site) it's a headache. I've searched far and wide for a better code base but so far no luck.

Can't live with her, can't live without her. Bitch.

VM’s picture

I think it would be of benefit to know which modules you are talking about rather than a simple generic blanket statement when you state they are 'must have'.

Jaypan’s picture

face it, you need MANY contrib modules to have a cool site

Not necessarily true.

foredoc’s picture

My major problem with D7 is the PDOException type of errors.

I have them when I edit my content type, install new modules...

And seems to me, there is no systematic way of solving these problems.

Need to try this and that with crossing fingers.