Meta: Drupal 6 End of Life

Submitted by lakeside on

Drupal 6, the content management system and version MGoBlog runs, has reached its end of life. No more support for bug fixes or security patches [LINK]. Beside the inevitable hacking of everyone's social security number, credit card information and first-of-kin PII, I take this to be a harbinger of good things. Need is the mother of web-development progress and we're now much closer to getting a new MGoBlog.

Blazefire

February 25th, 2016 at 12:25 PM ^

I just got asked to do an SEO quote for a client whose website "wasn't coming up in google at all". I checked a couple of engines, and they were correct. It didn't exist in search.

domain.com/robots.txt > User-Agent: * Disallow: /

I'm thinking about suggesting this job will take at least 80 hours to clean up and get them ranked, and then "working from home so there's no distractions" while I "fix it".

laus102

February 25th, 2016 at 11:45 AM ^

that the general layout of mgoblog doesn't change.  I don't like the stupid hipster-y .io web sites that flash their HTML5 and CSS3.  I like how mgoblog is structured, God knows i don't want it looking like eleven warriors or the like.  

bluebyyou

February 25th, 2016 at 12:08 PM ^

I'd sure like to have threads on MGoBoard stay on the front page based on activity and on not date of creation.  Often lively conversation dies because the thread is not visible unless you choose to open it in another browser window and then, activity is virtually gone.  

It would also be nice to have embedding, highlighting of quotes, spell check, and other features native to most blog sites included in the next upgrade.

BornInA2

February 25th, 2016 at 12:42 PM ^

Please, please, pretty please:

1. Ability to get to page two and beyond of message board without Jackie Chan Web-fu.

2. Ability to embed media without getting help from Jackie Chan getting help from the (not sad) Ghost of Steve Jobs.

3. Links to my posts that actually go to my posts instead of the approximate location on the page where my post was before 1200 other posts got interspersed. As-is, I have about as much chance to find my posts as an average linebacker had of tackling Barry Sanders.