Hi all,
For anyone interested, we have changed our site "The Daily Grail" over from PHP-Nuke to Drupal. We are a 'fringe science' news site, heavily community based.
Drupal is an excellent system for involving the community more - the member blogs are quite popular on the new site. For anyone interested, here's the areas that I think need more work (at least for the needs of our website):
1) Image handling: Some sort of easy and well designed system of adding images to nodes/terms, as well as image galleries. I know there are ways of doing this currently, but I think it needs to be more 'professional'.
2) Theming: I think the current theming system is back to front. Ideally we want the same setup on the site, but with minor variations of colour scheme or font size to suit members (the inevitable problem of 50% wanting white text on black, the other 50% the opposite). The current theme setup makes this difficult.
3) More user-friendly interfaces: eg. the ability to customise a 'blog front-page' to list titles and authors in different ways (most recent, most popular, 'noted' authors etc). This concept could extend to the articles module as well and other parts of the site. I realise that this is a situation where Drupal coders might say "get off your lazy ass and write it yourself"...I'm just adding my thoughts on how to make Drupal wildly successful with the unwashed masses. ;P