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@EclipseGc @LucolesLTDA You sure make a lot of dumb assumptions and do a lot of finger pointing. Maybe if you were "just a dev" it would improve things. Until then, keep ignoring compatibility and the fact that Drupal users are on unsupported, end of life code. I'm sure that bodes well for the future.

@ORG @LucolesLTDA Yeah this is one of my favorite interactions. It happens in the Drupal community too. People thinking I’m just a dev and that when I talk about real sites that I’m not maintaining any. Couldn’t be further from the truth.

#Drupal folks. If you’re solid technically and are willing to move to Austin, TX… my team at Apple is hiring. I’d love to refer you in.

@EclipseGc @LucolesLTDA I'm talking to you not because I'm a troll, but because you're out of touch. 30% of Drupal sites are still on 7. This isn't because we like waking up to our sites covered in porn images. It's because Drupal core is a mismanaged hunk of shit and we're stuck on bad tech.

@ORG @LucolesLTDA Not my lived experience man. You’re talking to me like I’m not out here maintaining sites like everyone else. I am. I have lots of sites. Plz troll elsewhere.

@LucolesLTDA @EclipseGc Hundreds of thousands of sites cannot move forward because the churn of the system exceeds the ability of the third party ecosystem to maintain plugin compatibility. Bad design, bad management, bad code. You're up to version 11 and you still can't generate a list of URLs served.

@ORG @EclipseGc sorry, but that's not what I asked. it seems like you're stuck complaining about Drupal when it would have made sense to plan a migration to anything other than D8. I mean, it's about as much work as the upgrade from D7 anyway.

@EclipseGc @LucolesLTDA If anyone in "the community" wants to export their Drupal 7 database and run some C# code over it that generates a sitemap.xml that has more than just the home page listed, so that the work of hundreds of volunteers isn't buried on page 45 of Google results, DM me.

@ORG @LucolesLTDA Did you release your fix to the community?

@EclipseGc @LucolesLTDA Psst... it's 2026. Open source hasn't saved the world. Mostly because of people like you who believe they've done so much... and if those pesky freeloaders would just become familiar with a quirky community and a 20 year old shit code base, everything would Just Work.

@LucolesLTDA @EclipseGc But if Drupal 1-6 sucked, half the world is stuck on 7, 8 was a mess, and now we're up to 11. Security holes you can drive a truck through, can't update PHP without breaking plugins written by one and two person shops. It's a classic problem. You haven't solved it.

@ORG @EclipseGc all due respect, you could have invested in another framework and jumped ship long ago. I understand if you hadn't done it immediately as we've all got bills to pay. but anyway, what is the framework you'd like to work with?

@EclipseGc @LucolesLTDA 8 years of watching Drupal not get better. Consistently see the dumbest organizations I work with using it, desperate to get off it. Yes, I reverse engineered the database and wrote my own sitemap file. Your attitude and your tech sucks. This itself is a data point.

@ORG @LucolesLTDA I’m not even a little defensive here. 20+ years of Drupal. I’ve seen just about everything. My point is just that sometimes you have to scratch your own itch. Complaining about it never fixes it. Most open software is essentially in this same situation. So is most closed.

@EclipseGc @LucolesLTDA Again, not angry. You seem defensive. The Drupal database schema is itself half the problem. And "free" is no excuse for shit quality and awful architecture. Outsiders and open source can't fix that, and you know it. Hundreds of bugs in a core function across 5 major revisions!

@ORG @LucolesLTDA The menu system does that just fine. If you architect your content badly, getting to every corner is going to suck. There’s kind of no two ways about it. At least there’s a db you could use. Being angry that free software doesn’t do precisely what you want is kind of cliche.

@EclipseGc @LucolesLTDA Not angry. Inherited a site built with half-assed plugins and no path forward. Evaluated the overall ecosystem and found it to be total shit. You know this. Stating that a CMS cannot generate a list of its own URLs may prevent others from falling into the Drupal pit.

@LucolesLTDA @ORG People have their lived experiences. Clearly sitemap is one of his.

@LucolesLTDA @EclipseGc Matt's a jackass and Drupal is a mess. There are hundreds of bugs and over 1,200 people reporting problems with the Drupal sitemap plugin. Sitemap! Rewrote core? Congrats. Now go fix the dependencies and usability.

@ORG @EclipseGc nice try, Matt Mullenweg.

@talyaTheeEnby They look at circulation statistics, toots.

please get a library card even if you won’t use it because cities will look at library statistics and use that to decide to keep libraries open and properly funded

@textfiles Have you worked in Hollywood? Or a game company? Countless turds have shipped with fantastic, loving details in one area. Budget and energy and time run out at the end, not in the planning/honeymoon phase.

@ORG We part ways hard

Excited to see what absolutely blanded-out, shitheel anodyne garbage Pixar is going to turn out starting now (average movies take 3-4 to make there, so whatever braindead outlook this is won't appear until 2027-2030)

@textfiles That's typical Hollywood pre-production masturbation, though. Even small budget fare at the Hallmark Channel finds room for that stuff. Morale budget is cheaper than paying artists what they're actually worth.

CARS, which is one of the weakest films in Pixar's slate before CARS 2 showed up, still worked with engineers to make the individual car models accurately reflect the suspensions of whatever they would be in reality. It'll take decades to weed that quality approach out.

"Capitalism for me, but not for thee..." @sama @OpenAI

Nailed it.

@katiemattaini I know this site is a dumpster fire, but check out this horror show of a professor. ratemyprofessors.com/professor/96437

For the millionth time: "Rigor" does not make good teaching. So beyond frustrating to hear amazing students turned off of entire fields because they're being hazed instead of taught.

@textfiles All the amusing stuff winds up here google.com/search?q=%22de…

Enjoying the insightful comments and thoughts emanating from this Hackernews discussion... just kidding, it's a glorious world-class shitshow of half-baked keyboard dribble.

@dancohen Here's a link to an archival service that allows people to read this paywalled article against the wishes of the publisher, likely with unspoken support of the author. Who should solve that first, then opine on others. archive.is/Qnbq8

For The Atlantic, I wrote about last week’s ruling in an important case that may shape the future of reading—and likely diminish the role of libraries in that future theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…