[leejoramo]

I worked with Zope/Plone for about 10 years in the 2000s. Without reading the story, I loaded the larger version of the graph and looked for a cluster for Plone.

On my third click, I found it.

Then I read the article which actually stated that Plone is one of distinct clusters. Pretty amazing for a 20+ year old technology

[BiteCode_dev]

My first job was with plone. I hated it. Then I learned the twisted ecosystem and had a moment of crisis.

Those are the devil pits of the python world.

Thank god for django and asyncio.

[leejoramo]

Python programming Plone was painful.

However, I learned so much from the entire system.

* The CSS of the Plone theme was a Masterpiece. There is a very good reason why Wikipedia used a near direct copy Plone’s CSS for most of the 2000s. Using just a layer of CSS and minor changes to the templates, I could radically re-theme an entire site in a short amount of time.

* Plone enforced semantic HTML and used XHTML. Regardless of what you think of the value of semantics and XHTML, it thought me how to create well structured HTML at a time when the web was full of very broken HTML4

* While programming was painful, Plone’s UX for content managers was first rate. I was invoked in testing Plone, Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. Plone got top marks by a large margin

* Again too marks for Accessibility. In 2005, I built a Plone site for a nonprofit that worked with the blind. I remember users saying they could not believe how easy Plone was to use using the Jaws screen reader

* Multi-lingual sites with workflows for translators. Last year I ran into a translator who used a Plone site I build 20 years ago. They lamented that none of the sites the work on today are as good as that old Plone site.

* etc