The Drop Times: The Catch with Easy Starts

Drupal has attempted to package reusable site builds before, remember distributions? Most of them either broke over time, went stale, or required more effort to customise than starting fresh. The new Template Marketplace looks smarter on paper, leaner “site recipes,” less overhead—but there’s still a real risk of history repeating. A template that works great today could still fall apart in two years if it is not maintained. If there’s no clear accountability for updates, we’re just shuffling the same deck.

For agencies, though, this might open a door that’s been closed for years: a way to productize their internal boilerplates. Agencies already build site kits in-house to speed up work. If the marketplace makes it viable to share (or sell) those setups in a standardised format, they could stop reinventing the wheel on every project. But this only works if the process to publish and support templates is dead simple and scoped because no one wants to sign up for extra maintenance overhead.

And let’s be real: Drupal needs this to help new users stick around. Right now, too many devs bounce after install because it feels like getting a toolbox with no instructions. A solid set of community-maintained templates could finally give people a usable starting point. Unless there’s a clear plan for upkeep and trust, the marketplace could fade into something people stop relying on.

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