In the Drupal Predictions for 2006 thread, I predicted that both Slashdot.org and Digg.com will move to Drupal, mostly tongue in cheek. For those who do not know, both are really high volume technology news and discussion oriented sites. If/when they adopt Drupal as a platform, it would seriously demonstrate Drupal's performance under heavy loads. Alex Racine said that Digg already runs Drupal.However, this cannot be true, and here is why:
- There are no css files that have the path of either sites/sitename/themes/themename/style.css. or themes/themename/style.css.
- The login and register links are not user/login and user/register, but these could be aliases.
- The search does not use edit[keys] in it.
- There are no tell tale signs of the usual div class or ids, such as pager-first, pager-previous, ...etc.
- We did not hear about it in the development community. This would be big news, like The Onion Using Drupal.
As much as we wish it was true, it is not ...
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Adrian (not verified)
Yeah, i didn't believe it for a second.
Sun, 2005/12/25 - 04:06He also pointed people at drupalcms.google.com earlier at some point in the thread.
Alexandre (not verified)
well yes...
Mon, 2005/12/26 - 01:14Just to tell you that this was a joke, the drupalcms.google.com link. For digg, well, I have email digg to ask them directly. Since this is Christmas, well, this might take some time.
But... for your point 1 to 4, on the why it is not drupal, these are thing that could be changed from the code source. So these are not good arguments.
But, on the point 5, this would ideed be in the "news" if digg would be made with drupal. That is a good argument.
I'll try to post the email here when I get the answer.
Budda (not verified)
Waste of time
Tue, 2006/01/03 - 07:20Why would anybody waste time changing Drupal core code to mask the output HTML?
This causes more hassle when upgrading Drupal in the future.
Anonymous (not verified)
Drupal
Sun, 2006/03/19 - 15:23Hiding site's engine is good way to protect it from spammers who often hack open source CMSes.
Anonymous (not verified)
Digg doesn't run drupal,
Thu, 2005/12/29 - 21:56Digg doesn't run drupal, especially since Digg's search is a lot better than Drupals. Drupal really needs to work on their search capability.