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by boxed 1041 days ago
The Django admin has unfortunately stayed stagnant for 15 years. We built a replacement admin in iommi first almost as a joke, but now it's a serious part of the framework. Our admin is 645 lines of code (54 of which are imports!) while djangos admin is 5307, and still our admin is way more customizable. Not only that, but you can easily reuse all those customizations if you want to lift stuff out of the admin to your own stand alone view, unlike with the Django admin.

It's all about great abstractions. Django never extracted the table/filter stuff from the admin into a usable stand alone component, and it really shows.

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Could you consider releasing it into the open source?

Django admin is stagnant mostly because of lack of uptake in support from companies. Everyone makes their own admin solution rather than collaborating.