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.

*Update Sep 18, 2008* In my progress on writing a multi-user blogging installation profile for Drupal, I launched drupalmu.org as a showcase.

On October 23 2006 Wordpress released Wordpresss MU. From their release statement: "WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. It?s the software that powers WordPress.com, for example." Now, with a couple of modules Drupal could be made to act just the same way. Or could it?