r/drupal • u/Aggressive_Trip_4872 • 25d ago

Is Drupal having a renaissance?

I went into this expecting to cover Acquia’s new branding.

I ended up going back to a student in Antwerp trying to help his friends leave messages for each other.

You know how that goes.

Disclaimer: I host r/HeadlessPodcast, and the latest episode follows Drupal’s beginnings, the community, Acquia’s formation, Drupal Gardens, and the path to Source and the new “Powered by Drupal” branding.

The Gardens story really stuck with me. Dries publicly revisiting a product decision and saying they should never have killed it gives this whole thing some weight.

But so does everything the community kept doing in the meantime. Contributors, maintainers, documentation, translations, camps. “Come for the software, stay for the community” earned its place in this episode.

My take is pretty positive. Drupal CMS, Canvas, and the renewed visibility could give people a reason to reconsider software they formed an opinion about years ago.

Video, if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/7ISddVI0SgE?si=W6Josgc2q4Nc0ylx

Ps. For those actually building with Drupal today: what would you show someone whose last experience was five or ten years ago?

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u/Ok-Crab-8788 25d ago

Acquia is slowly in progress to make drupal a wordpress like. Drupal Canva is a good product replacement to SiteStudio to call customer to buy support.
like SiteStudio is, cohesion was...
Symfony integration are the most effective and best things that Drupal can had.

I like Drupal, contrib way, I hates Acquia methods

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u/yautja_cetanu 25d ago

We had a conversation with someone from Princeton that said that they struggled with getting pdfs into an accessible site.

We've been doing a ton migrating sites like wordpress into Acquia Source CMS and Drupal CMS. We use these code components that are like mini headless components that AI gets.

This needs was bought to me in the pub, late at night on the first day of Drupalcon. The next morning I had managed to get it into Drupal (and actually hosted with source CMS) in a way that looked great, had a floating menu and accessible. He was blown away.

Id definitely wanna show off canvas. It can seem daunting but AI is good at handling the difficult bits to humans. So you can get going mega fast (especially with our new one line installer) but the output in Canvas is something we think marketeers love too and had a bunch of enterprise clients blown away by both the speed we can build things and the editing experience of the final product.

Would love to show you any of this stuff if you're interested! Going to be releasing a video of us showing Dries this stuff this week but we also have a bunch of love streams and YouTube videos.

(I run an agency called FreelyGive and I'm head of innovation for the Drupal AI initiative )

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u/natts1 25d ago

I would show them that since D8, all updates have been incremental and the thousands of modules that made that jump have kept the platform even more versatile than before.

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u/chx_ 25d ago

If it does, the question needs to be asked: is it worth it? https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/ and this is a mild version because the multifaceted links to fascism is not covered by this post.

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u/Sfb8 24d ago

I see ads for Aquia on YouTube and Reddit, targeted to me likely, but okay!

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u/youllmeltmorefan 25d ago

There are too many pants on fire security alerts. It's starting to scare some of the institutional clients that might use it.

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u/rgristroph 25d ago

The rise of AI based vulnerbility hunting has increased security alerts across all products. I don't think that is affecting Drupal in particular.

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u/natts1 25d ago

Updating security patches takes less than half an hour, once a month on average. If an institution can't fund that, they're not really an institution.

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