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Good insight

Authored by: Tony on Friday, November 02 2001 @ 06:05 am EST

Given all the work you\'ve put in in evaluating all the weblogs out there, where do you think Geeklog falls short? What areas can it improve in?

Yeah, of the ones you\'ve listed, Scoop seems by far the most polished both in terms of code layout (despite it is a language I\'ll never fully learn) and in design layout.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, November 02 2001 @ 08:13 am EST

I went out for the same task and installed a little zoo with some portals.

After a bit of playing I sort of reached the same conclusion. I am hesitating now between PhpWebSite, PostNuke and GeekLog. I'd add phpweblog to the list of nice systems it you don't want a good user/admin system. Though 0.5.3 adds simple user levels.

What I found interesting is that most systems now try to be modular at the "API" level, I mean it's become easier to add modules ("modularity" in the sense of code being nicely rewritten is another issue). Almost every system I looked at just came out with some major architectural improvements. That's good. What's bad is that between all the things announced for "any time soon" and the preasure of having something now I feel a bit stressed :)

Concerning Geeklog: I can see: Better language support (e.g. users can select their UI language. Full multiple language support would be even better (support for stories in different languages), but difficult. Also, I tried to get Geeklog 1.3 from CVS, but was permission denied.

- Daniel

PS: I have a simple webpage with some pointers.

Good insight

Authored by: Tony on Friday, November 02 2001 @ 08:36 am EST

Language support will be addressed with 1.3. You can expect users to be able to select their language from their account preferences section. However, don\'t expect stories to be converted anytime soon. That will be difficult (dare I say almost impossible) to do with any sort of accuracy. Maybe, at best, we could provide hooks in Geeklog to allow you to use some of the online translation services for the story portion.

I too have noticed the modular design everyone has taken. I think it shows the maturity of this class of software. First, it was just a bunch of proof-of-concept code (ala Slashdot) munged together to do something new. Now weblogs are anything but new and to keep user bases and to encourage others to join in development we are having to make the code modular and maintainable. Geeklog is no different.

Ok...I better get back to coding now ;-)

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Good insight

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Sunday, February 24 2002 @ 10:50 pm EST

Actually.. If I could clarify that statement of Geeklog\'s origin a bit. Geeklog originally was a fork of phpWebLog. JasonW contributed many thoughts and ideas to phpWebLog before deciding to take it (phpWebLog v0.4.2 i think), and rewriting.

Much of the design faults you see in Geeklog today are legacy issues from phpWebLog\'s own design limitations. phpWebLog was designed to be a simple weblog, that\'s all.

Good insight

Authored by: Falkware on Wednesday, November 07 2001 @ 01:41 am EST

I could add timezone selection to the list. For some reason choosing your timezone and have all stories and times reflect your selected timezone has yet to be included.

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