[consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design

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George Por wrote:

> 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 group’s 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 doesn’t 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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