I want to build a larger community, but it seems like a really big step to go from WP to Drupal, maybe I'm dreaming.

WP is almost too easy to use:
1. Check for new sidebar widgets
2. Write
3. Publish

"No support requests here!" - if my site ever breaks, that's not the type of community I want to turn to when I'm on my knees begging for help.

Writing lots of content in Wordpress and waiting for bbPress to mature seems like the best thing to do... Automattic just got a cool 30 million in venture capital, bbPress should be really good soon, right?

I'll keep crying myself to sleep while I wait for something terrible to go wrong and force me over to Drupal.

Great presentation. I mean that. There were no bullets that I can recall, less than 10 words on each slide, and illustrations. Fantastic, really.

:)
 

Cool presentation. One comment about the search feature on drupal.org:

This is restricted because search is about the most massive resource hog in all of Drupal. In busy times, drupal.org had to disable search entirely so that the site doesn't collapse.

So while your analysis might be correct for Drupal at large, I'm sure that locking out the "pure user community" wasn't the intention behind disabling the search feature for anonymous users.
 

Hehe, very funny in the beginning. Only shame that the rant about the Drupal backend did not go on longer, I was laughing my head off.

Good stuff.
 

Great post. I'd like to more like this, especially something about moving from Wordpress to Drupal. I love WP, it's great and is a fast, effective solution for small business / brochure sites. I have stoked many of my friends with their own lightweight CMS using WP pages only. But for a whole community - my corporate intranet - Drupal quickly became the obvious choice. But I have to say, the goings been rough. It's not obvious how to get started, especially if you have no large-scale CMS experience. Once I understand it better I hope to create "the tutorial I wish I'd had".
 

You said that both pieces of software can do the same thing...with enough work. That's not true at all and especially if you consider backwards compatibility. To get WP to perform some of Drupal's more advanced features you have to hack the crap out of it. Once you've hacked WP, if you want to upgrade for security reasons, you have to re-hack the next version. WP is fine for people who want basic blogs, but it CANNOT do everything Drupal can. For example,

Proximity Search
KML file generation
Multiple Content Types with configurable fields.
etc...
 

You said that both pieces of software can do the same thing...with enough work. That's not true at all and especially if you consider backwards compatibility. To get WP to perform some of Drupal's more advanced features you have to hack the crap out of it. Once you've hacked WP, if you want to upgrade for security reasons, you have to re-hack the next version. WP is fine for people who want basic blogs, but it CANNOT do everything Drupal can. For example,

Proximity Search
KML file generation
Multiple Content Types with configurable fields.
etc...