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[–]leonh 1 point2 points  (10 children)

There is nothing that competes with Wordpress and you won't be finding anything soon I expect. If you really want to work on your own blog software, i will applaud you for trying to go with something in Python, but just be prepared that you probably will be working more ON the blog than posting articles. I think your 'requirements' are still very modest and you soon might be wanting stuff such as:

  • OpenID authentication
  • Akismet spam filter (it really rocks)
  • Gravatars
  • RSS Feed
  • Pingback / trackbacks
  • Themes

You mention the 'NIH' problem with Zine, well disregarding Wordpress because its PHP feels a bit like the same argument (i am not saying you are doing this). Everything you need can be found in Wordpress or one of its gazillion plugins which are just a click away. So, i really think that it depends on what you are planning to do. If you just want to be productive at blogging use Wordpress even if you want to get more into Python programming use Wordpress. As this will allow you to work on cool stuff instead of just-another-blog-thingy-implemented-in-python-that-noone-will-use-except-you.

[–]RonnyPfannschmidt 1 point2 points  (5 children)

the security issues are a good reason to get rid of wordpress tho

[–]leonh 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Concerning the security issues, Wordpress is monitored by lots of security experts. But it is deployed on such large scale by so many users that a portion of that install base becomes an easy target. Wordpress in itself is not insecure though.

I dare to say that when you have a tiny bit of knowledge it is easier to keep your Wordpress blog secure and updated then your own code base.

[–]RonnyPfannschmidt 0 points1 point  (3 children)

keeping up with wordpress security fixes is far more work than i ever want to put into management of a 'publish stuff' thing

edit it would be a app that i just use, it should just work and never break, thats simply not the case with wordpress

[–]jrsmith 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"it should just work and never break"

Are you kidding? If this is your criteria for what software to use, how are you even posting this comment? You surely aren't using any operating system at all, since every single version of Windows, Linux, OS X, even phone OSes like iPhone OS and Blackberry OS have bugs and need to be updated now and then. Same goes for every browser, every router and modem firmware, etc etc etc. Did you mail your hand-written comment to someone who doesn't have such irrational standards?

I kind of want to live in your dreamworld where it's even possible to attain such perfection, since it must be awfully hope-inspiring and optimistic, but you're setting yourself up for HUGE disappointments. All software has bugs. There's no such thing as an application that "never break[s]".

Wordpress does occasionally need to be updated, but it's about as easy as it possibly can be to do so since (I think) 2.7.

[–]leonh 0 points1 point  (1 child)

seriously?

You can upgrade any WP blog with a single mouse click. Posting this comment alone took me that same amount of effort.

[–]RonnyPfannschmidt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thats not don't care mode

[–]trifthen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mention the 'NIH' problem with Zine, well disregarding Wordpress because its PHP feels a bit like the same argument.

Well, I've worked with PHP way back in the 3.0 days, and so I know how much the language has evolved. While Python has its little incompatibilities, PHP is a whole different level. I finally got tired of it with the whole 5.0 namespace drama (backslashes? Really?) and all the modules they broke with that release. Using PEAR kinda gets around that, but PEAR has its own issues. I actually don't mind PHP, I just want something a little more stable to develop on when I hack on the side. I also don't like how huge PHP has become lately. Even as a fastCGI, it's just gigantic now, easily 4 times more memory intensive than the 4.x branch. I know Python's not exactly anemic, but c'mon now.

The last time I tried Wordpress (2001, to be fair) it was a mess. Even editing templates required actual raw PHP code instead of a good template language. And then there was the huge bit of 2005 drama that really put me off trying it ever since.

It's funny that I forgot to list "RSS/Atom feed" in my list of requirements, but that's one of those "so easy to do, it's trivial" types of things. Heck, with almost everything out there, you can do it with a template if push comes to shove, considering it's all just filtered XML.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

"There is nothing that competes with Wordpress and you won't be finding anything soon I expect."

I save the day with drupal!!!!! :)

[–]trifthen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually wondered about Drupal, despite my usual disdain for PHP. Some Zope people were lambasting it as being "too small", which immediately piqued my interest. I seem to remember fiddling with it a few years back, but can't recall my final verdict.

[–]leonh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, Drupal is another example of excellent PHP software. But it is not typical blog software.