Posted by cptX on Mon, Feb 15, 2021 - 7:47am

From the beginning working with Drupal, I never understood why we have this parallel system of forum/taxonomy structure? Why can't we build a structure only for forums and eliminate completely the dependance on taxonomy terms? Even better why a forum could not be a content type for example and then have all the benefits content types are having?

I know this comes from Drupal concepts but now in Backdrop theoretically we are free to do whatever we want so wouldn't the independance of the forum from the taxonomy system give us many benefits?

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Mon, Feb 15, 2021 - 10:19am by klonos

but now in Backdrop theoretically we are free to do whatever we want

Well, that's not entirely true. According to our principles:

Backwards compatibility is important. Backdrop will attempt to keep API change to a minimum in order for contributed code to be maintained easily, and for existing sites to be updated affordably.

Having said that, if there is a way to implement this as a feature/option, while at the same time making sure that sites upgraded from D7 do not break, then that would be ideal.