I love drupal particularly the elegant in the source code and the sensible modularization and coupling of the php files. I have been recommending it to people for variety of CMS.
But as a blogging tool, drupal is definately an overkill with its feature. It is also pretty daunting for a typical blogger (who probably dont even know what's PHP) to stripe it down and then customized it as a blogging tool. (Dont laugh..I spend nearly whole day to figure out how to set permissions and post stories and that is after reading the source code :P)
In the "ease-of-use" category, MT definately wins hands down for non-technical blogging community.
So I am wondering if there is any fork of drupal which customized such that "ready-to-go" for a blogger which I can recommend for other bloggers. If there is none, would you be interested to work with me on such a project?
The project would involve taking drupal, stripe it down to the core which only modules that a typical blogger need, then provide some templates that is designed for blogging (instead as a generic CMS).
We probably also need to provide some modules so users can do templating without having the horror of understanding PHP and other common functionilty.
Drop me an email at jseng_at_pobox.org.sg if you are interested,
ps; Yes, my blog still runs MT. I thin