What did you use before MODx?

I had to use some older version of Joomla and had a negative experience. Then I did some search on the net and got (a lot of) CMSs lined up by features and looks. So I chose MODx and decided to learn a bit about it. So far I like it, but what I think MODX misses is a big community. I think there should be more team members on the forum. IMHO if you want to be in the top 3 you have to have top support.

P.S: Can’t wait for 2.1 final to be released.

Hi modxers...

I use MODX since February this year. Before that I used for my work, cute news, soso vn, joomla ...

My happiness is that I was my boss and a friend from work, said the MODX and actually persuaded me to start exploring MODX. I am very grateful to him, because after I made 4 months 4 sites with MODx and with each new page, I learn something new.

Openness is a very good thing, too, communities, and Documentation are great.

Sorry for my English...

gr00,

The entire core team contributes to the forums daily but I don’t think people realize that it is primarily opengeek and splittingred and netProphet who work on and build MODX along with a number of other community contribs. Each of them read and respond to the forums everyday. The MODX community has more than 30,000 registered users and a large number of active users everyday. When you compare to most other FOSS communities you’ll find it very responsive, positive and helpful. Raw size of community is not enough. Other communities are much bigger but lack the helpfulness or supportiveness. Not saying the MODX community is perfect but it’s pretty awesome.

neeho,

Glad you like modx and that it works for you. Have fun with it and do well.

Hi! newbie here. =)

I did use wordpress, joomla before i have ever heard of ModX CMS, but now i’m turning to ModX CMS because it can do a awful lot!

I’m also a fresh when it comes to modx cms, but what i seen of it i think it’s a great tool

I've used Drupal and Wordpress extensively before...

Wordpress... too... messy? contains a lot of code, hard editing themes/templates... had to "Hack" it... but then couldn't really (was scared to) update it, because my hacks might break... so didn't really keep it up to date. (Which gotta update it like every couple weeks... come on!) But it was too popular, so scared it wasn't secure if don't update it...

and can you say spam? It's the "Windows" of the CMS world...

Drupal... hackers wet dream? What can you do with it? (What Can't you do with it!) But... you can do too much... it's not easy to do easy stuff... everything is programmed correct... hundreds of classes and modules... it was too "perfect"... hard to do everything, but I can see how programmers could enjoy it... but you got to love the project you are creating with Drupal... it'll be a custom job.

Rolling out many Drupal sites and maintaining them could be trouble... it's hard to make things perfect... and my gosh all the options, fields, parameters, and customization... fields oh my. It's like the "Linux" of the CMS world...

Then there's MODX... I've only been using it for a short period of time right now... but everything seems to be sweet as sauce... Has a very small footprint... I love the default theme... which as you all might know, it's nothing!

Simple yet powerfully expressive... kinda reminds me of the Python programming language. You got your Templates, Chunks, Snippets, TVs, and Plugins... seems like this is all you need... no messy fields to mess with... unless you want to.

It could potential be the "OSX" of CMS world... still great for developers (like OSX is, which has roots in FreeBSD) Simple yet Powerful. It let's you do things exactly the way you want to do it. No excess, no waste.

With better installation... easier way to do menus / blogs and maybe a little better interface, (It already has a killer back-end, and conceptual) it'll BE the "OSX" of the CMS world.

I've used Joomla, e107, played with Drupal, and I still rely heavily on Simple Machines for several specialty forums. Oh yes, I can't forget WordPress (although I'd like to) Our former graphics artist/developer thought all websites should be crammed into a WordPress framework. Turns out it was the only tool he knew, so the generic answer to any website question was "Use WordPress!"

None of the come close to touching the flexibility of MODx. It's pretty much a "blank slate" where I can do what I want. Sure, I have to learn some coding along the way, but if I have to learn something, it might as well be how to do things right instead of struggling through the quirks of each one of the others only to find I'm pretty much limited to whatever other people think I want.

I first found etomite, and then discovered modx .9x and then left etomite alone pretty much after that. It was a great starting point, but I found modx to be better, newer and refreshing at that time. Glad it's a fork that didn't die. Well done modx guys! What ever happened to the old forums? are they still active?

Wordpress (and I still plan on using it). I've also dabbled in Drupal and I wish they Drupal team focused less on engineers and more on other types of users.