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@ -78,10 +78,31 @@ With Drutopia we also tried to go a bit further to make it a flexible distributi
We didn't go as far as i would have liked, which would be to make the idea of a base distribution obsolete. I wanted to explode every requirement into its tiniest component part: Does a feature need a given role? It depends on a feature module that provides that role, and nothing else. An image style? Same thing, a feature module providing just that image style. We didn't go as far as i would have liked, which would be to make the idea of a base distribution obsolete. I wanted to explode every requirement into its tiniest component part: Does a feature need a given role? It depends on a feature module that provides that role, and nothing else. An image style? Same thing, a feature module providing just that image style.
Reasonably rejected as impractical, we still went to a lot of work to be able to Reasonably rejected as impractical, we still went to a lot of work to be able to enable, disable, and potentially swap out various features, including:
* [People](https://gitlab.com/drutopia/drutopia_people ) content type and listing page
* [Campaigns](https://gitlab.com/drutopia/drutopia_campaign )
* Actions
* Events
* Articles
* Blogs
* Comments
* Landing pages
* Resources
* Faceted search
* Collections
* Storylines
* Related content
* Webforms
* Groups
* SEO tools
But not many heeded our call, and distributions are essentially incompatible with each other. But not many heeded our call, and distributions are essentially incompatible with each other.
#### Base theme
To make all this functionality and configuration easy to work with out of the box, we provided, Octavia, a theme based on the flexible, flexbox-based Bulma CSS framework.
#### Upgradeable #### Upgradeable
The other thing we (read: Nedjo Rogers) put a lot of time into is trying to make it so that when The other thing we (read: Nedjo Rogers) put a lot of time into is trying to make it so that when
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So again: More central platforms, under control of the people who use them, are a real, valid solution for where we find ourselves in the year of hindsight, 2020. So again: More central platforms, under control of the people who use them, are a real, valid solution for where we find ourselves in the year of hindsight, 2020.
But four years since Drutopia launched, in part to save Drupal from itself, we have to acknowledge that people have spoken. Most development shops sticking with LibreSaaS choose WordPress— that's pretty much always been the case, but the gap is growing, mostly because Drupal isn't growing at all.
[Backdrop](https://backdropcms.org ) has a small but very healthy community and is the clear place to go for people who like "Drupal Classic".
Historically, under pressure, many people have turned to forming cooperative associations. Historically, under pressure, many people have turned to forming cooperative associations.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles many of these. Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles many of these.