I’ve been using Drupal for this blog for most of its life. However, I’m starting to be quite annoyed by several things:
- The Captcha module is seriously broken and opens up the door for various security problems
- The Spam module is there, and works mostly, but is not effective enough to keep spam down
- The badbehavior module is over-aggressive and doesn’t work well anyway
- Spam becomes a serious drag on load of the server
So I’m planning to switch to something else. Something where blogging will be fun again, without all the hassle of tracking down spam. It looks like either WordPress or Serendipity, and I’m leaning towards Serendipity for now.
I’m a big Drupal fan, but I also use WordPress for one of my blog sites. WordPress is fun, though I find it runs a little on the slow side compared to how many features Drupal has. I’ve heard some good things about NucleusCMS too and you may want to consider that site also.
Besides Drupal and WordPress, I also run a forum to discuss and compare various CMS and blog applications. The site is very young, but it might be worth giving a try. The site is