5 years of Thunder: 10 lessons learned

Thunder is one of Drupal’s most downloaded distributions — and after five years, we summed up the ups and downs in this journey.

When the German publishing house Hubert Burda Media started building a Drupal distribution in 2016, this was meant to be our internal answer to a growing portfolio and diversifying requirements. Meanwhile, numerous websites run on Thunder, and not only traditional publishers! Thunder has become THE distribution for professional publishing.