TechnocratTechnocrat’s Random Thoughts

I was talking to someone who was writing a blog post about different CMSs.  I am sure they are wondering why they picked me after my comments during the conversation.  Here are some of the things I responded to.

How do you think Nuke-Evolution is seen in the CMS world?
Very poorly!  We have never got any respect from anyone in the CMS world.  For example we have been a packetpub finalist twice.  TWICE!  How many other nuke versions have done that?  None!  Yet places like opensourcecms.com refuse to list us.  Why!?  I wish I could tell you but they seem to generally ignore us.

The people at Wikipedia didn’t feel that we had enough of a following to have our own page.  Really!?  We have the second highest user percentage behind only the original nuke flavor.  We are in the top five of total users on a nuke site.  We have had many translations and sister sites in different countries.  What else do you need to qualify?

I still get a bunch of grief on different sites when they find I work on a phpNuke project.  Their biggest argument is that it is insecure.  Well the original flavor was (probably still is) for sure.  Do you know how many times a major secruity flaw has been found that would allow hackers into your site with Evo?  Once.  One time and it was in the original Evo release.  We patched it one hour after it was found.  I don’t know for sure how many sites were affected by the number that were reported to us was 5.  5 sites seems like a pretty good number when it was downloaded 5,000 times at that point. Sure there have been other security issues found but none of them have the ability to get past the security we have implemented.  So the argument of poor security doesn’t fly.

They also state the phpNuke is slow and outdated.  That’s true to a degree.  We have done so many things to strengthen and improve Nuke that we barely recognize as it once was.  Evo and Nuke are not even in the same league anymore.  Is Evo perfect, no.  But I think it can hold its own against other CMSs.

What is the future of phpNuke?
There isn’t one.  Nuke is dying a slow death.  FB (the original author of Nuke) let Nuke fall apart.  He didn’t listen to his users, ignored security issues, and let the project become stale and outdated.  Now with phpBB ending the 2.0.x branch there is a nail slowly being hammered into Nuke’s coffin.  Is it the final nail?  Hard to say for sure.  My opinion is yes.

Nukes days are numbered.  I am not sure how big that number is but it’s counting down.

There were some other questions but they weren’t anything big.  I wonder if he will actually post this??