When comparing Superdesk vs Plone, the Slant community recommends Plone for most people. In the question“What are the best open source headless CMS's?” Plone is ranked 3rd while Superdesk is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Plone is:
Not only does this provides complete transparency to the user, it also enables a large base of developers to work simultaneously on solving any arising the issues and improving the platform.
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Pros
Pro Visual
The interface is clean and well designed. You can tell someone with a UX background worked on it and not just software engineers.
Pro Easy to use
Putting together an article is straightforward: you type the text into the main fields and then use drag and drop to add photos.
Pro Publish to more than one website
You have the option of setting up publishing routes to choose where something gets published in case you have multiple websites.
Pro Customizable
I like that you can set up a personal workspace and also add different widgets to your dashboard depending on what you’re interested in.
Pro Newsroom automation
Superdesk can aggregate and automate multiple mundane newsroom jobs.
Pro Open source
Not only does this provides complete transparency to the user, it also enables a large base of developers to work simultaneously on solving any arising the issues and improving the platform.
Pro Remarkable level of security
Plone has been around for almost two decates and to date less than 50 vulnerabilities were discovered in the platform. That's at least ten times less than any of the popular alternatives, including Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla. In fact, government agencies, such as NASA and FBI use Plone for its high level of security.
Pro Can run on virtually anything
Plone runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebooks, RaspberryPi, servers, and cloud services.
Pro Multilingual UI and documentation
Plone platform along with all documentation is available in more than 40 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Cons
Con Sometimes buggy
Sometimes, when trying to publish a post I was getting errors which was a bit annoying. However, after we updated to the latest version the instance was running smoothly.
Con Not one-click publishing
At least in our company’s system you need to do a couple of extra steps to publish an article.