Open Source

We are about 80% complete converting Twin Cities Indymedia from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.10, which has a variety of excellent new features. Fortunately, perilous database conversions went thru will nary a ripple of terrifying errors. Everyone's logins work as before.


Current issues:

• Until the features & anti-spam arrangements are straightened out, comments and story posting are temporarily restricted. No mood for spammers
• Random features not on :)
• All the Drupal "Views" have been deleted, so your various multi-post pages are not necessarily working. Also the newswires at right have to be created anew. All the data is fine - we just need to put in the new ways to show it
• Various bits of the 'art' of the site are out of place, fonts etc.
• A variety of random items will be moved around
• The 'performance enhancing' caching and other toggles are off. However the site should be a LOT faster under Drupal 6 anyway!!

We have now gained a lot of nice design options (in particular adding more democratic measures like possible voting for features, AJAX, WYSIWYG editor (FINALLY!) etc). These are not in yet.

In any case we had to the tricky conversion stuff before getting into everything else. We will try to get it all online soon &
Thanks for joining us & plz give us a feedback!

--Your busy info bees @ TCIMC Tech Collective