Ulitzer.com in Drupal (in 2008)

A bit old news but I have some backlog in mail, bookmarks, word, upgrades, visiting friends and even sleep.
Web 2.0 Journal is writing about Ulitzer choosing Drupal as their CMS:

Ulitzer.com, which will be launched in 2008, with 5,500 authors and more than 550,000 original articles, is looking for enterprise software architect(s), programmer(s), and Web app developer(s). The site will offer original content in more than 2,000 topics ranging from AJAX to Zebra.

If ulitzer.com would start in 208 and would use Drupal, I think it will be the largest Drupal ist in number of nodes out there:

Launching with 5,500 Authors & 550,000 Original Articles!

At least, I dont know of any site with half a millions "nodes". Drupal.org is nearly half way there, do you know a site with more nodes? If so, drop a comment (will be moderated and publish within 8 hours).

Who will qualify working for them:

Are you the person who wrote most of the Facebook or MySpace code?
Were you the main architect who converted Yahoo! code from a proprietary system to PHP?
Is your Google badge number smaller than 100?
Have you delivered a large-scale CMS on Drupal, Django or another popular open source platform?
Do you agree that CMS would be more appropriately defined as "Community Management System"?

No, I am not Ulitzer material. But at least I have one of the points right:
Old posting on my site:

"My prediction, within 3 years the acronym "CMS" wont mean "Content Management System" anymore but will be redefined to "Community Management System".

I might even be the first.

mylifetime.com

Lifetime Television (mylifetime.com) has 453570 nodes and 360111 active Drupal users and well over 2 million registered users.

By slantview (not verified) at Wed, 09/01/2008 - 12:26am | reply

musicbox

The Sony Musicbox website (http://musicbox.sonybmg.com) is gettin' there, with 246K nodes. And daily we're pulling more in from Amazon for our Albums and Tracks, so we're pretty high up there.

Daughtry's website (http://daughtry-official.com) is pretty insane for just an artist site. His fans just flock there though and since forums and comments are nodes, we're rapidly approaching 270K nodes.

By sirkitree (not verified) at Wed, 09/01/2008 - 12:31am | reply

Of course, there are sites

Of course, there are sites with more than 550,000 nodes. For example, at Sunnyvale Drupalcon, someone was talking about an (internal) Drupal system used at a defence contractor, that had a node for every single part in each of the jet fighters produced by that manufacturer. They were talking several million nodes.

I know of a few other sites that are under development, that have these sorts of numbers. Usually where data is mass-imported from some other source/database (like geographic information, a product catalog, book indexes, etc)

By lyricnz (not verified) at Wed, 09/01/2008 - 2:36am | reply

My-ANI has just launched and has more than 500.000 nodes

On My-ANI.com we have 560.000 nodes of which close to 515.000 are currently published. The articles come from 7.000 authors and we are adding 5 to 10 thousand articles every day! So by end of January we should reach 600.0000.

This is all driven by Drupal which is doing an outstanding job!

By jurgenhaas (not verified) at Wed, 09/01/2008 - 8:51am | reply

Node count

SavannahNOW.com (Drupal 4.6) is up to 427K.

http://savannahnow.com/node/427170

By Ken Rickard (not verified) at Wed, 09/01/2008 - 7:48pm | reply

Line Rider

Line Rider (http://linerider.com) launched about two and a half months ago and has about 200k registered users each with a profile node plus forum posts and videos puts it at 207k. At that rate 500k ought to be reached in another 2-3 months.

As lyricnz states, someone at OSCMS mentioned a site with many millions (over 10 million if I recall correctly.)

By Chris Bryant (not verified) at Sat, 12/01/2008 - 10:12am | reply