[consulting] to fix a major limitation of Drupal design

[Darren Oh]

I think the Node Comments module does exactly what you want.

http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment

On Aug 26, 2007, at 5:40 PM, 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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