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size=2 face=Arial>But compelling is a pretty subjective thing of course.
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> support-bounces@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>prothero<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Monday, December 06, 2010 8:51 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
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<DIV></DIV>I'm wondering what the compelling improvement is for Drupal 7? I see
feature lists, but for me, a newbie, I can't find that list of why Drupal 7 is
so much better.
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<DIV><snip><BR>FYI, I tried Drupal 7 (also as a new user) and found it
not ready for <BR>newbies to use. Many of the themes and modules have not been
updated yet,<BR></snip><BR><BR>I'm saddened by this also.<BR>I want to
start building a Drupal 7 site but even basic well known and <BR>desperately
needed modules and themes have the famous "I pledge that <BR>this or that will
be ready when Drupal 7 is released".<BR>Surely, now that the code is locked
(Drupalcon June 2010) we can have <BR>some of the more well known
modules.<BR>My basic Drupal 7 was killed by a D7 beta update last week after
getting <BR>views almost working, had to reinstall the pre update
release.<BR>I'd love to be working with D7.<BR>Roger<BR>-- <BR>[ Drupal
support list | <A href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</A>
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