[Kuinox]

As always, they boast a lot how they are good.

I heard the message.

> The new "5.0" version of the GamersNexus website is now live, ad-free, and function-focused.

Here all the trackers that Privacy Badger blocked: googleads.g.doubleclick.net static.doubleclick.net play.google.com www.google.com www.googletagmanager.com fonts.gstatic.com cdn.jsdelivr.net o23210.ingest.sentry.io

Edit: oh god, it's a drupal website.

[rchaud]

That may be because they have a Youtube video embedded in the post. All those scripts are Google related. Tag Manager is likely theirs however, for loading Google Analytics.

[lousken]

i would say the same about wordpress and joomla, unless it's statically generated it'll suck. The issue is regular people should be able to administer the site and add content to it. So drupal seems like a reasonable choice.

with regards to other things mentioned - youtube-nocookie should have been used but other than that i don't see a problem?

edit: drupal 10 is already out and they are still using 9 and not even 9.5

[PartiallyTyped]

> The issue is regular people should be able to administer the site and add content to it

Why not markdown + static site generator?

[lousken]

markdown makes sense for things like documentation, but with these sites like gamersnexus i think there are some issues

1) how do you migrate all the existing content from joomla (which they do want to migrate) - would it be in some terrible html only format? would it be a mix of html and markdown?

2) how do want to use markdown for articles like https://gamersnexus.net/features/inside-collapse-artesian-bu... ? it would be highly customized markdown anyway, and the more markdown additions are, the less markdown makes sense anyways since portability becomes an issue

I think their current approach is fine - render once and cache is pretty normal. With that being said less is more and I hope they did not implement a lot of plugins or custom code that would require maintenance every other php/drupal upgrade.

What I would like to see instead is using svg graphs with high accessibility instead of just pictures.

[askonomm]

What's wrong with Drupal?

[Kuinox]

It recall me bad memories when I tried to maintain a drupal website, it was hell, it's a dedicated job.

[Incipient]

That still doesn't explain what's wrong with it.

[akoncius]

when it was? 20 years ago?

[Kuinox]

About 4-5 years ago ?

[threeseed]

Last three are not trackers: Google Fonts, JS CDN and Error handling.

[Kuinox]

Google Fonts leaks your IP to google, it's also not GDPR complient.

JS CDN leaks your IP to a third party, they already have a CDN: cloudflare.

Saying sentry.io is just "error handling" is wrong, it's a monitoring suite.

[threeseed]

That's a pretty tortured definition of tracking. Your IP gets leaked when using any third party service.

There is no evidence that any of those listed use your IP for advertising purposes.

[Kuinox]

A tracker doesn't mean it's for advertising purpose.