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By jesusphreak on
I think that Drupal is a very interesting system, and it seems very powerful and clean.
I don't know if it can do what I need, though.
I'm attempting to do something a bit like Slashdot, except for only gaming news, where users can submit stories that moderators have to approve before they will display on the front page. Can Drupal do aynthing like that?
Also, this isn't something that is as important, but would be cool, is there an add-on that lets users rate others comments (again, similar to Slashdot)?
Finally, is Drupal 100% XHTML compliant, and if not, is it possible to accomplish/is that a goal of the team?
Thanks for any help I get! Nice job here.
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Oops
Oops, just about forgot something: does Drupal have a "category" system for each story?
Again, thanks.
EDIT: Argg...one more thing!
I was seriously considering Geeklog for a short time for my site, as its got a lot of features already built in. However, I found a major issue with the fact that Geeklog simply seemed slow on just about any of the big sites that use it. I wasn't positive I wanted to deal with that. Does Drupal stay speedy or have any speed problems?
Thanks AGAIN!
Sorry to ask so many questions, I've just been searching many different CMSs for days and days trying to get what I want. Hopefully someone can help me out here.
categories
Drupal has a versatile category system that will easily acheive what Slashdot has. In fact, you could create two sets of categories, call one "sections" and have separate page listings for your sections, like Slashdot.
As for speed and efficiency, Drupal's definitely one of the best in terms of code optimization.
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It has moderation of posts before publishing.
Not sure about rating stuff, perhaps there is a module.
As to XHTML compliance... That is entirely dependant on the theme you pick or write. The theme output is somewhat independant of the backend.
It's called category or taxonomy.
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Oh, wow....
So an XHTML complaint site is basically all in your hands - no digging through the core to fix anything?
Very cool. Reading more and more stuff about Drupal, it seems very appealing.
Core is XHTML
Core is XHTML compliant for sure.
However, some contrib modules are not.
Depending on what modules you choose, you may have to fix some of those contrib modules. If you do, please submit patches so everyone can benefit.
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Wrong forum, stupid question
You can find out everything you've asked here by doing some simple browsing around on the features page and the handbook.
Not to mention you posted in the wrong forum. Moving...
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Wow man. No need to be a
Wow man. No need to be a jerk.
Good way to turn new users off of Drupal. I don't think I've had anyone tell me "stupid question".
Asking questions in open-source projects
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but personally I hate it when people make no effort at all to reuse existing sources of information. Search, then ask is always the best approach. If everyone jumped into the forums waiting for a custom tailored answer, we wouldn't have time to do any development.
Aside from the tons of information on Drupal.org itself (like this features list which answers pretty much all your questions) there are tons of feature comparison sites for CMSes which allow you to pick the CMS which suits your needs.
Also, you made the critical mistake of treating open-source software like commercial software. We develop in our own interests, not the interests of users. That doesn't mean that our interests don't overlap with theirs, but I couldn't care less if one person more or less uses Drupal. All I care about is how they contribute back to the project.
People who ignore existing information start off in a very unproductive way, and tend to be unwelcome.
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Well, sometimes search just
Well, sometimes search just doesn't cut it.
I'm always glad to get the opinioins of other people who have actually used a piece of software.
The other great thing about open source is anyone can answer questions you have.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
Search
I wrote the new 4.6 search module so I'm pretty well in the know of what it can and cannot do.
Looking over your user history shows that you did a single search query "submit stories" /after/ posting your topic in the General Discussion forum. This is a pretty bad query as it has nothing related to what you're actually looking for: a community-moderated/approved submission queue.
It also shows you looked at the main forum overview. This means you at least had the oppurtunity to see what the most appropriate place of posting was, but didn't do so. So forgive me if I seem a bit skeptical about your efforts.
On the bright side, Drupal obviously has an excellent statistics and tracking module...
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Again, thanks for the help,
Again, thanks for the help, but this is a pretty stupid arguement.
I glanced over the forums, and "General Discussion" seemed like a good place for this. And "submit stories" is exactly what I was looking for. I don't know what to say - sorry if I don't please your requirements exactly.
Just let it go; it doesn't hurt you and you'll be just fine. I haven't came across too many jerks while looking for a good CMS, but you are one. After doing a bit more poking around, Drupal seems to be EXACTLY what I need, but I didn't need your harassment.
Thanks to everyone who helped. Have a good evening.
Oh, and Steven, thanks for talking about what the Search is capable of. Amazing.
Jerks and harrassment
I've noticed that talking in what I (and other Europeans) consider to be a neutral manner is considered to be talking like a jerk by many Americans. Maybe you should re-read this conversation in that light.
I thought the question was stupid because communities and user-submissions is what Drupal is all about. This should be obvious if you look around the documentation and do some reading. Taxonomy and categorization is also one of Drupal's strong points.
When you said "search doesn't cut it" I dug through your history to see why you thought that and found no evidence that you had done enough search queries here to have an informed opinion on the subject. I then pointed out to you why your search query didn't come up with anything useful. I also went through the trouble of moving your topic to a more appropriate place.
But yes, with you being the one throwing around insults, I must be the jerk...
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I just scanned the features
I just scanned the features list and I didn't see anything necessarily addressing a few of my questions. I just wanted to get something more indepth.
http://drupal.org/features
Sorry I asked, though. Wouldn't want to ask real people for their comments. And yeah, I'd say you are a jerk, going off and saying that its "stupid". You're right though, Europeans are a lot more blunt. Maybe you should take that in consideration, and act accordingly, because its a bit offensive to a lot of Americans to be told (upon their first post) that its "stupid".
Again, I feel like I'm back in 2nd grade argueing. I don't see how this is constructive or worthwhile. Lets drop it.