Blog Tool
Posted: Thu 15 December, 2005 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts, Work-related |5 Comments »Wow, that’s scary. I’m now a good 90% of the way to having written a complete multi-user (and I do mean seriously multi-user) blogging tool. It’s “just” comments to go now.
Of course, this is just version 1. There’s a lot of development still to go on with it, but the basics are there and running.
Who knows, I may even end up using it myself – although for the moment WP is sufficient for my needs.
And before anyone asks, there were major reasons for supposedly re-inventing the wheel on this one. Not least that nobody short of typepad has come up with anything that works in even vaguely the same way. (i.e. multi-user, all using the same basic domain – so blogs appear at username.site.com , and a bundle of other things.)
Sometimes I’m so geeky I even scare myself…
Are you sure that it’s not very very crufty?
Ah, comedy.
I bet you wish that you’d selected something else to be your word of the day now.
No, it just shows that some people are cruftier than others 😛
There is *one* free multiuser blogging system I know about that might have been able to do the stuff you were looking for. It’s called Elgg, and it’s mostly pitched at educational community-building.