25 engineers on Hacker News describe using Drupal first-hand: 5 endorse it, 8 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“It's the only software I've ever used that I flat-out hated, and swore to never touch ever again.”
regret · production · solardev · 2024-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Drupal is at the very top of my "never again" list, but I was surprised how many consulting firms there still were for it.”
regret · production · solardev · 2023-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's pretty powerful, just hard to use. Wonder if there's an easier way to do this... We migrated and never looked back.”
regret · production · solardev · 2023-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's absolutely not production ready without heavy caching in front of the site.”
regret · production · wbobeirne · 2023-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did one project in Drupal. What a heaping pile of shit unfit for any actual developer... Never again.”
regret · production · pmarreck · 2018-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One thing we use it for is its user management which is good enough out of the box.”
endorse · production · snurycombinator · 2016-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use the Drupal Honeypot module on PortableApps.com and it works well.”
endorse · production · JohnTHaller · 2014-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Aborted project on Drupal sums up my latest experience with it too. I have completed a couple over the years though, but after building a few Rails apps, never again will I use Drupal.”
regret · production · mountaineer · 2013-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The prejudices I have against Drupal are the result of my experience of it starting as far back as version 4.”
regret · production · mmcnickle · 2012-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We discovered this too, when we switched from Drupal to using Jekyll hosted on github”
regret · production · AdrianRossouw · 2012-02-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a small consulting shop and we leverage Drupal for a lot of our projects.”
endorse · production · japanesejay · 2011-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But, we finally got it right when switching to Drupal a couple of years ago.”
endorse · production · 2 yr · SwellJoe · 2010-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“but it caneasily be extended with any of Drupal's modules, or you can create your own features”
endorse · production · ashedryden · 2010-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd spent 10 years using the Drupal monolith, and did not regret the move.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · doublejosh · 2023-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Task for our (Drupal) web projects for a few years now”
neutral · production · deviantintegral · 2023-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work with a lot of non-profit Drupal clients”
neutral · production · steviedotboston · 2023-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was the #1 core contributor for 5, 6 and #4 for 7 and still #10 for 8”
neutral · production · chx · 2017-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using Drupal, MySQL (or MariaDB) simply works much smoother than PostGres.”
neutral · production · bartl · 2017-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated a legacy VM with old cpanel and drupal sites and even though Drupal is not in their main expertise”
neutral · production · St-Clock · 2016-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we run a large mix of Windows Servers, SQL servers, Linux, Drupal, MySQL, Moodle etc.”
neutral · production · wfjackson · 2014-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our primary use case for Gluster is in serving persistent filesystems for Drupal.”
neutral · production · syrneus · 2014-05-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Other than delivering a standard website with Wordpress/Drupal as your solution”
neutral · production · acesubido · 2013-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Drupal on a LAMP server. Drush ('DRUpal SHell') handles most of the back-end”
neutral · production · geerlingguy · 2012-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched ForeignPolicy.com over to livefyre from the Drupal built-in system and saw a big increase in participation”
neutral · production · showerst · 2012-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we use the cache invalidation logic to tell varnish what needs to be refreshed. We use this setup for over 1,000 TV station news sites”
neutral · production · mikeytown2 · 2010-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?