[consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design

[George Por]

This is message is to those brave souls who think that something can be done
to fix a major limitation of Drupal design.

I am talking about the fact that only nodes can have categories and tags but
not comments. That means that a forum topic opener and blog can have them
individual blog entries and topic replies not, makes those key modules
largely useless from the perspective of growing the a group¹s capacity for
collaborative meaning making.

I talked with many programmers and they all said that adding rags to comment
cannot be done in Drupal because of its architecture. Is it really so? No
amount of money could buy developer time to fix that? If any of you have a
serious proposal, we would consider it.

When we used Drupal 4.6. And 4.7, we got that problem partially resolved by
using flexinode to mimick a blog, and then we could add tags to the entries.
However, we moved to 5.1 and, to my knowledge, flexinode doesn¹t work there.
Can that be changed?

Another workaround would be to use Moveable Type or another dedicated blog
software and link the MT blogs fom our Drupal-based home page. However, in
that case we would loose the handiness of one search command working on all
content types at once. Any work around that?

Best regards,

george
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