gisle: in short supply to properly configure and maintain a Symfony-based Drupal website, hiring freelance help for this will be more expensive, compared to the old days when Drupal was friendly to non-professionals.
When this old days finished, with Drupal 7?
bendqh1 : One of the causes for this entire situation, in my opinion, is the hardship to install Drupal on shared hosting ("simple managed web hostings") because it requires up-to-date MySQL, PHP and various php-extensions which most shared hosting products don't include.
I don’t think this is the problem to at least people which have a little knowledge about web design. And every shared hosting should have – at least the option to choose – up-to-date software. For 5€ p.m. you get even one-click Drupal installer, can choose your favourite php versions, incl. domains, database, cron job etc...
My impression often are the cemeteries connected Drupal 7...
For example last time I was looking for Mailman (mailinglist) modules:
User mailman register
7.x-3.4 Stable released 6 August 2023
Works with Drupal: 7.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/user_mailman_register/ →
Mailman Manager
7.x-1.0-rc1 released 19 July 2013
Works with Drupal: 7.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/mailman_manager →
Mailman Integration
7.x-1.0 Stable released 5 November 2015
Works with Drupal: 7.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/mailman_integration →
Mailman 2
Obsolete updated 27 November 2014
https://www.drupal.org/project/mm2 →
mailman mailing list admin
Obsolete updated 27 November 2014
https://www.drupal.org/project/mailman →
Mailman Subscribe
7.x-1.0 Stable release released 14 June 2016
Works with Drupal: 7.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/mlist →
If you get to Drupal, that will give you doubts starting with Drupal. Impression is Drupal was dying?
When I was looking researching in 2020/21 for a cms, in lot of articles/blogs people where writing about the problems of Drupal with its versions and incompatibility of the modules... I was skipping for long time Drupal and looked for Typo3, Joomla, Django... WP.
But I went back to Drupal, but sayings were right, there is e.g. a problem with the versions and modules ...
And its hard to build a website beyond deprecated Bartik theme and figure out all the stuff.
My question is, how to support e.g. to organise the Drupal website? Keep it more up-to-date... How a Open Source support needs to be in 20s?
Thanks
Yes now I wrote in my profile...
..I'm quite new to Drupal.
Interested in Open Source but was just an user most of the time.
Since end of 2021 I'm using – better lets say, try to use – Drupal for a little community.
My goal is to build a kind of social platform... and try to support Drupal.
I noticed that for new people coming to Drupal, its often bit disturbing when lot of stuff is/seems outdated.
For example Mailman mailinglist topic:
User mailman register
7.x-3.4 Stable released 6 August 2023
Works with Drupal: 7.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/user_mailman_register/ →
Mailman Manager
7.x-1.0-rc1 released 19 July 2013
Works with Drupal: 7.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/mailman_manager →
Mailman Integration
7.x-1.0 Stable released 5 November 2015
Works with Drupal: 7.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/mailman_integration →
Mailman 2
Obsolete updated 27 November 2014
https://www.drupal.org/project/mm2 →
mailman mailing list admin
Obsolete updated 27 November 2014
https://www.drupal.org/project/mailman →
Mailman Subscribe
7.x-1.0 Stable release released 14 June 2016
Works with Drupal: 7.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/mlist →