[drupal-docs] Difference between a "story" and a "page"

[Dan Robinson]

>>> "Stories are posts which appear on the default home page of a Drupal 
>>> site, akin to a community weblog or Slashdot-like site where all 
>>> site members can post. Or, the regular site users can be denied the 
>>> ability to post to the front page using stories, allowing the site 
>>> administrators to use the front page as an announcement board."
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>>> "Static pages are a way for a site administrator to create pages 
>>> which are not included in one of the other node displays and could 
>>> be used instead of the Books for additional resource pages."
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>> actually I don't get this at all.  If I setup stories and pages in 
>> Drupal and give them the same node defaults - they operate the same.  
>> I think that the distinction you are making is arbitrary from the 
>> point of view of what the features actually are.  While this is a 
>> reasonable "best practice" - it is not "codified" - is this correct?
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> True, this is not codified.
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>> well we could also call them HTML_CONTENT_1 and HTML_CONTENT_2, and I 
>> "get" that it is useful to have different node types to develop 
>> different work flows - but I would want to have _3, _4, yada yada.   
>> (and as was pointed out you can use flexinode or build your own node 
>> type to do this).
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> Keeping story and page is an important legacy feature for those 
> migrating. Until Drupal core provides an easy way to migrate workflows 
> and permissions for these types to something else, they will not go. 
> This was discussed on the devel list. Introducing other arbitrary 
> named basic content types is not a good idea now. Story and page are 
> just artifacts, their existance are not a proper representation 
> whatsoever of the capabilities of the powerful node type system built in.
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> Goba

Ok - so legacy support is a "good" thing - no problem.  But why not just 
drop story or page going forward (from the marketing materials etc?)  It 
is just confusing.
(and yes I realize that this is not a discussion for here)

Dan

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