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Back in 2006 I built a custom CMS for golf membership/community to manage tournament listings and registrations along with club news and social calendars. In 2008 I migrated that to Drupal 6 and continued to grow the site from there. Come 2010 I was raising flags about moving to Drupal 7. No. 2011, I recommend the move. No. 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 ...no, no, no. 2016 they complain that the site is old and they want more "management" capability (they had tons a capability). The get sold by some wizbang company and the fancy dancy CMS. I have to hear how great it is bla bla bla. That is until they start to use it. Turns out, it's not a CMS by any stretch of the imagination. They need to know HTML and a page's content in a single blob field. And content can't be repurposed across the site. I now just sit back and laugh at their pain.

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  • 1
    Jeez.. Not surprised. But frustrating experience.
  • 2
    Someone sold them SharePoint, didn't they? 😁
  • 2
    I effin hate sharepoint. It did before too, men someone convinced our IT to build the new intranet in SP. For the first year it took something like 45 seconds to open the start page. After consultants "fixing" the problem it only takes 30 seconds.
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