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

[Robert Baker]

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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