[IMC-Tech] Re: Indy CMS Software:

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi Strypey,

Thanks for input, I'll pass it along to the rest of the UCIMC tech crew.

In solidarity,

--Sascha

strypey at riseup.net wrote:
> Kia ora Sascha
> 
> An impressive effort. A couple of suggestions. It took me a while to
> find the newswire. This is IMHO the most important part of an Indymedia
> site, because it is coming to the site to post news that then makes them
> hang around and read news. Maybe there's some way to emphasise this?
> 
> Second the block style of listing all the Indymedia sites is very spiky.
> Aotearoa.Indymedia.org recently upgraded to the latest version of
> DadaIMC (no spam now thanks to captcha-style spamblocker) and I really
> like the way it renders the global list by openable sections. Check it out.
> 
> Love and Rage
> Strypey
> 
> Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The Urbana-Champaign IMC has developed and implemented a Drupal-based Indymedia 
>> website over the past two months: www.ucimc.org
>>
>> It has cut our spam from over 800/day to roughly 5 over the past three weeks. 
>> It also handles multi-media and has all of the functionality of our previous 
>> website plus tons of options for additional features.  We're happy to help folks 
>> out and could provide a ready-to-install version for IMCs that would like to 
>> implement it -- so if anyone here would be interested in using this software 
>> package, just let me know.
>>
>> In solidarity,
>>
>> --Sascha Meinrath
>> Urbana-Champaign IMC
>>
>>   
> 
> 

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