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I'm curious as to what blogging platform you'll consider well engineered. You've already called out Wordpress and Movable Type.
by ilovecomputers 17y ago
I'm curious as to what blogging platform you'll consider well engineered. You've already called out Wordpress and Movable Type.
- blasdel 17y agoLivejournal was very well done, Brad Fitzpatrick innovated a lot on every facet of it: the hosting platform, monetizing it, the social network aspects, privacy features, etc. Before NetNewsWire took off like a rocket, it was by far the most popular feedreader in use (its "friends page"). Tumblr feels pretty well put together too, as long as you fit in with it's opinionated style. As far as open source stuff, the only great ones are the ones you write yourself :). A couple years ago I wrote a tumblr/4chan hybrid for AppEngine that I never got around to using. Both AppEngine and Heroku make fantastic platforms for such things, there are a bunch of good blog engines for each that you could use as a starting point to great success. The problem with Wordpress and Movable Type is that they are simply terrible, no good, piles of shit; full of terrible ideas poorly implemented on crappy platforms. Anything else is better. At least Movable Type committed suicide by license-wank, it's too bad that something worse stepped in to take its place. That Wordpress is becoming a premier application framework that people use to get Accounts+Admin depresses me.
- Qwe679 17y agoYou haven't explained why Wordpress is a pile of crap. Sure, it's simple to say something is a pile of crap, but doing so without explaining why doesn't make your assertion credible.