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Kind of a more loosely structured WikiPedia, with fewer rules and a lot more opinion. It's probably more comparable to the original wiki wiki web, by Ward Cunni

Kind of a more loosely structured WikiPedia, with fewer rules and a lot more opinion. It's probably more comparable to the original wiki wiki web, by Ward Cunningham (c2.com, which contains a little bit of everything, kinda like everything2), though it evolved in different directions. It developed more focus on creative writing and commentary over the years, with less emphasis on encyclopedia style articles or technical articles, though I haven't paid attention to it in like a decade. I was very excited about it when it first came about, though. It was closely related to Slashdot, but when Slashdot was sold, E2 remained independent.

chromatic 12y ago
when Slashdot was sold, E2 remained independent. Some of the profits of the Slashdot sale went to Blockstackers as an investment to develop E2. Unfortunately, the dot-com crash (and, to be fair, not enough effort spent marketing the software) meant there was little market for the underlying CMS.
- alxndr 12y ago
  And the underlying CMS was pretty messy if memory serves.
  - SwellJoe 12y ago
    There was a time when everything that managed content in some way was being renamed "CMS" in order to fit into a category that was selling at the time. Fitting sometimes very oddly shaped things into the category was common, and I think a lot of cool software got needlessly mangled (TWiki also went off in a lot of weird, occasionally "CMS like", directions to satisfy some sort of enterprise dream that hurt its usability in a lot of ways).
  - chromatic 12y ago
    It wasn't great, though for 2000-era mod_perl code, it was decent. It had a lot of solid ideas that predated the Rails-wave of web development, but they could have used a lot more polish.
    - alxndr 12y ago
      That's good to hear. It (and a python-based rewrite) was one of the first software projects I looked at and had a chance to mess with when I began to learn to code.

chromatic 12y ago

when Slashdot was sold, E2 remained independent. Some of the profits of the Slashdot sale went to Blockstackers as an investment to develop E2. Unfortunately, the dot-com crash (and, to be fair, not enough effort spent marketing the software) meant there was little market for the underlying CMS.

alxndr 12y ago
And the underlying CMS was pretty messy if memory serves.
- SwellJoe 12y ago
  There was a time when everything that managed content in some way was being renamed "CMS" in order to fit into a category that was selling at the time. Fitting sometimes very oddly shaped things into the category was common, and I think a lot of cool software got needlessly mangled (TWiki also went off in a lot of weird, occasionally "CMS like", directions to satisfy some sort of enterprise dream that hurt its usability in a lot of ways).
- chromatic 12y ago
  It wasn't great, though for 2000-era mod_perl code, it was decent. It had a lot of solid ideas that predated the Rails-wave of web development, but they could have used a lot more polish.
  - alxndr 12y ago
    That's good to hear. It (and a python-based rewrite) was one of the first software projects I looked at and had a chance to mess with when I began to learn to code.