project: blogging softwarey

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Christopher Browne wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Elcomb <psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I've tried Wordpress and a number of other blogging and found them a
>> little lacking.  Recently however I started playing around with
>> b2evolution and have to admit I'm quite impressed.
>
> I'm a little curious as to what could be "lacking" in such systems.
>
> The essentials to a blogging application ought to be eminently simple:
>
> * The *first* purpose is to allow the author to record "diary" entries
> that are publishable as HTML and RSS/XML.
>
> * A second purpose, that I'd consider pretty secondary, would be to
> allow the public to add comments to your diary entries.  I am not
> certain this is actually a good idea; I would tend to think that if I
> want to comment on someone's blog entry, I should put a blog entry on
> my own site.

    If you don't want to allow comments, all that's needed is a few
    lines of shell script.

    Unless you are writing an article every hour (and probably not even
    then), you do not need a database to store your articles.

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