Hi, I have to say that the feedback was valuable, and I don't feel that any of the posts before dismissed it as irrelevant. I saw your (Dries') presentation at the DrupalCon about the future of Drupal, and one thing is not clear, which I see being reflected here:
- A lot of people come to Drupal from a blogging background.
Whom do we want to make Drupal for? I think you can't provide a good blogging CMS and a generic usage content management system. For example see the popularity of Wordpress vs Joomla, loads of people use the first for blogging, but not for larger websites, and the contrary to Joomla.
- A lot of what Chris said is valid for non-blogging contexts.
Nonetheless what I wrote above, this is true.
Drupal 6 is what will be used in 2008 and possibly part of 2009. A *lot* of people will bump in exactly the issues that Chris highlighted. Let's not classify this feedback as irrelevant -- it's some of the most valuable usability feedback we've had in months.
My question is where do we draw the line for usability issues? When does complexity kneel before usability? For a generic CMS a more complex would be preferred, for blogs a simpler one. Should we start to think in Drupal distributions, targeted at each major audience? cheers, balazs