Comparing postnuke with other
CMS's is like comparing Linux with windows.
Postnuke might be userfriendly, but it's abrcadabra to the new admins. I've had a look at several other systems, and had a 'WOW' moment at a couple of them. Adding modules/themes are done in the admin. Just upload a file using the site, and it unpacks it, and it's working.
Where postnuke might be more secure and stable, others are far more ahead in being friendly, better multilingual, have far greater help on-site.
It's a given thing
PHP-nuke is still popular, due to the amount of what gamers/clanners have as needs. Those needs can't be done with postnuke, so postnuke isn't their engine.
Were
PHP-nuke comes with standard captcha for registration,
PN will never have this. It's not accessible.
I've asked for accesskeys in the core menu, and got the reply: We don't add it, because we don't want to overwrite users shortcuts when it comes to browsers (where the
pn_bbcode has a lot of accesskeys to add
bbcode, and is part of the .7 core package).
I've also requested a feature for being able to open sites in a new windows from the menu, or by clicking on rss-feeds on the site, and neither will that be added, because the user should be in control over how links work.
The way i want to run my site, can't be done with postnuke, because some devvers say things shouldn't be added. Me personally, the devvers/crew don't give any value as what the users want to see.
The standard install gives a frontpage with some information, that it's a weblog content management. But for weblog'ing it's stuck in the early 90's. Take a look at weblog packages like wordpress. Take a look at the coding, it's a mess, but the users doesn't care, it does the job. And it does it totally right and fast and effective.
Where .7 is way off from the major search engine guidelines, for instance the guideline: Do not duplicate content, and
PN'ers say: for SEO: use shorturls, which is something that is the oppesite of SEO, due to the fact that you're duplication content.
Take a look at the urls with shorturls on, both on .7 and .8 it's a total mess. Far from SEO for that matter. That the standard installation is w3c compliant is something i like to see in a site, but hence the fact that site rank high on some keywords, with the worst kind of markup used, makes it not a dig deal if the markup is w3c compiant or not.
For people browsing a site, 80% doesn't care if it's valid, as long as the can use it. Popular
PN site are a spam-magnet, and that won't change, since all things that block these spambots are non-accessiblity, and won't be added.
People that want to run a
CMS, want it due to the ease of the controls, and that's something postnuke isn't in a long shot. When i started with postnuke, i thought it'd be easy to config, and sturcture it into a nice site, and that wasn't a fact.
Where other systems are self-explaining, or even come with a good help in the admin,
PN is a mess when it comes to the admin GUI. Making it not friendly.
I'm not saying
PN is crap software, but it could be soo much better, if only the devvers should pay a bit more attention when it comes to what people look for in a
CMS.
Some hypocritisme comes to mind when some folks reply on posts in the forum saying: you should upgrade, blah blah, and when they do, their site won't work, because there been changes made that breaks
3rd modules.
I can't even post code on a postnuke site, due to some things are filtered, and can't even been turned off.. Ever tried to add in the
CMS? It won't work.
The more I've been trying, the more issues i ran into that weren't possible within postnuke.
When i add a news item, i need to know
HTML befor i can have it markup-wise correctly. Which i thing a
CMS should do by itself. I'm still have a
PN site running, but the hassle it is to write an article well with the correct tags, it'd be easier to open a
HTML editor and write it in there, and put up static pages for that matter.
What lobos said in his opening post, that the populairity drops on each codebase change, the only thing i can think of is that with each new version there are only things that work less, instead of adding functionality too it.
The upgrade archives did contain a shitload of unchanged files as well, but since I've changed many core files, a list of files that didn't changed couldn't be given. When there seems to be a security issue, there won't be given a fix/patch for that issue, but a complete new version is build. Which does many people that have fine-tuned postnuke to their needs, redo everything again.
Known issues aren't delt with, there was a bug in the memberslist template in 7.6.2 and there were many topics open because of it. The support giving by the devvers is lacking on that issue, that there isn't any section with fixes or patches to known issues that doesn't need a new version.
Replies like: you can get it from the
NOC, is just support-unfriendly. This things can be made downloadable in the download area, and have a new items publisched on the frontpage, so there aren't 999 topics opend from an issue that's known for like a year. Deal with things instandly.
I don't need a new version when 1 or 2 files are actually changed, but the package contains 600+ files, and i need to re-add my changes, because
PN lacks it to be uptodate when it comes to websites in the year 2007.
