DesignBump Moves Away From Drupal Drigg Social News Platform
DesignBump a popular social news website dedicated to the Design Community is going through some big changes at the moment with the largest being moving away from the Drigg set of modules for Drupal upon which DesignBump was originally built.
John the owner of DesignBump has recently written a blog post detailing why the changes over at DesignBump are much needed, One of the reasons John gives for slightly neglecting the site over the past few months is his recent marriage (Congratulations John).
Other reasons included Drupal and the Drigg set of modules consuming lots of server resources and making the site slow to use, something I personally each day when visiting DesignBump. John has now recoded DesignBump from the ground up still using Drupal but with a custom content solution that contains no Drigg modules or code-base.
Two of the things in Johns blog post that are a little disappointing is all the old URL paths on designbump have changed during the recode, this isnt good for any old submissions that ranked highly on google and could really impact DesignBumps and it’s users referred traffic. The second feature missing is the external vote button is no longer available for content producers, if your running a site that is built upon user submitted content an external submission / vote button is almost certainly a must for success, lets hope another button solution is developed in the future.
Being pretty experienced with Drigg after developing and launching WPscoop back in 2008 I can see why DesignBump needed to change platform to grow and most probably survive. Drigg is very server intensive and with lots of visitors can become a battle between functions vs speed, without spending lots of money on servers, memcache etc the more speed you want it seems to be the case the less function you can have. Spam is also a huge problem with Drigg Drupal taking far to many hours to moderate no matter which spam solution combination of solutions you utilize for drupal.
You can read Johns full blog post on the changes to designbump here. What the hell is going on at designbump?
