I'm using more and more views on DrupalMU and I needed a way for the pages and blocks to be blog-centric. When you're on a specific blog you only want to see the recent comments on that specific blog, or only see the archive of blog entries by that owner. You also want the blocks to appear on any page of which the blogger is the owner: the user's profile, his blog entry listing, a specific blog entry, the comment page of that entry, ...

It's been two years since Wordpress MU got released. In my review of the product it became obvious that Wordpress MU provided end-users with all the user-friendliness of a regular Wordpress installation, but that the engine that ties the different blogs was an ugly duck. I also had to admit that Drupal 4.7 was not the perfect solution for multi-user blogging either. In these two years the Wordpress MU engine hasn't changed much but four other software packages didn't stand still.

Last year I did a comparison between Drupal and WordpressMU in terms of how both relate in terms of the multi-user blogging experience. The conclusion was that WordpressMU had all the bells and whistles and that it was clearly more experiences in terms of end-user friendliness and usability, but that it lacked the much more mature technical implementation that Drupal could offer. I made it my personal battle plan to set up an installation profile for Drupal, developing any missing modules in the process, to bring the best possible multi-user blogging platform both in terms of usability and technical stability. I dubbed it DrupalMU.