[IMC-Boston-Editorial] new feature and spam question

[Michael J Borucke]

Alright, two tech people for switching to Drupal. This non-tech person
is inclined to go with that strategy.  Anyone else have thoughts on
the issue?


Peace,
Mike


On 6/9/06, Robert Baker <rrbaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm inclined to agree.  DadaIMC was the best back in the day but I'll
> come out and say that instead of releasing the source to the community
> already in support of the CMS, using it it and willing to contribute,
> Spud (the creator of dadaIMC) kept things internal.  And it's not his
> day job, so updates have been falling short of what was promised and
> severely lacking in terms of the general expectations of both users
> and administrators.  I still give it credit for being easily one of
> the best homegrown IMC website platforms available, but for Boston's
> needs, time to move on.
>
> The other half of deciding on the right CMS for any organization is an
> evalution of the community behind the system itself.  DadaIMC's has
> gone quiet.  Drupal's is booming.  Ergo, the best move now in my
> opinion would be drop dadaIMC development and as Jon said reimplement
> on Drupal 4.7 from the ground up.  If drastic measures need to be
> taken: install it, configure (with special attention to hiding
> article/comments and not tracking IPs), turn off comments and posting
> on the dadaimc site, move it to boston.indymedia.org/archive and start
> over with Drupal, moving over the feature stories and static pages
> shortly thereafter.
>
> I should have more time in the near future to help evaluate and do
> some very light work.  I really wish I could commit to more but I'm
> unreliable.  Not a good idea for anyone.  I'll stay on the list though
> and Jon, if you want to email me direct about any decided steps,
> please do so.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
> On 6/8/06, Jonathan D. Proulx <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:52:57PM -0700, Sofia JarrinT wrote:
> >
> > :Also, Jon, could you give us a synopsis on where the
> > :spam  control is? If we're not moving forward, I
> > :really think we should ask IMC tech for help to
> > :actually go into dada and help us with it. Not sure if
> > :you guys saw the comment on the newswire about it.
> >
> > we are nowhere.  I got no response from support at dadaimc.org after
> > several attempts dispite his previous offer to arrange a phone call or
> > IRC chat, and I've gotten zero response from the dadaimc discussion
> > list.
> >
> >
> > I'm developing a rather unfriendly attitude to Dada these days.  On
> > the Drupal front I'm inclined to basicly start from scratch and
> > reimplement the test site and do my hunting for our changes that way,
> > atleast it would get us moving again even if it's from three steps
> > back.
> >
> > The server slowness some people have notices is pretty much entirely
> > from spam. It seems western mass http://wmass.indymedia.org has
> > disabled comments entirely to avoid spam, let's face it Dada sucks...
> >
> > -Jon
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