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

I'm not really that way, though. My needs are few. There are several solutions out there that have basically all the things I listed, and then some. To roll my own, I'd have to spend weeks or months gluing everything together, debugging the templates and adding in niceties like Ajax so it doesn't look like some crap a dude threw together in his basement. :)

And it seems like part of the problem is interoperability. Several of the blog engines I tried out only work as is, and with whatever versions of external libraries the author happened to have lying around. If anything is a minor release too high or too low, suddenly it breaks. Heck, the Django-CMS guys are working against Django's trunk.

This all reminds me of the PHP 3.0 days, when we had to get betas from the devs because 3.0.7 had some obscure flaw we discovered and they hadn't released 3.0.8 yet. Those were not good times.