And would folks please stop calling Wordpress open source and stating that Matt develops open source software. That’s far from the truth. One simply has to look at wp.com to see so.

Please visit the Habari Project site to see how our project is different - hopefully you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Akismet is not open source (the service, not the plugin) and benefits from the the failure of WordPress to combat comment spam natively.

You can keep copy/pasting this idea, but that doesn’t make it true. Note that there are two non-Automattic employees with commit access to WordPress (I am one of them). We don’t have the conflict of interest of which you’re accusing Matt. We’re not facing pressure from Matt to keep anti-spam improvements out of WordPress. That’s a straw man. If you haven’t read the response I wrote the last time you brought up this particular accusation, you should do so now.

I’m excited about 2.5 but not holding my breath… although I’m sure it’s going to help attract new users.

http:/www.habariproject.org/ *

*(unfortunately, you may have to visit some other time since there appears to be a bug with the site

WP’s widgets, dashboard, UX and API are weaker than they should be this long after Automattic “getting serious” and Toni joining the team. I love WP to death, just saying…

The infamous database connectivity problems are also very embarrassing. WordPress isn’t designed to handle more than a handful of simultaneous visitors without massive tweaking or caching. It gets even worse when plugins get involved.

I also started getting pissed off at Matt whathisname. First, using wordpress.org to host spam pages to make money. Then stealing a guy’s wordpress.com blog. Lying to users about his conflicts of interest. Actively interfering with alternative spam control methods.

I didn’t like Movable Type, but I decided to give it a try. It’s biggest plus was that Matt’s name was not attached. My site now loads instantly…even in dynamic mode (which uses PHP).

I miss some of the features of WP, but having seen what they’re doing with WP 2.5, I’d be missing out on those features in WP anyway.

– Pissed of former WP user.

fwiw, i use both companies’ products (Wordpress, Typepad) fairly regularly, and while there are many great points about both, i also think everyone needs to continue to aim higher…. there is certainly more to be done for making the web publishing user experience simpler & better.

to be honest, the overall pace of innovation that’s occurred since the original FrontPage product was introduced by Vermeer back in ‘95 has been relatively slow.

so matt, anil, others… feel free to wack those nerf bats all over the place, if that’s what it takes to keep you motivated

- dave mc

No problems here. Have you tried it from multiple locations to be sure its not just something on your end.

“He should probably file a ticket with MT support, since he cannot fix that problem himself.”

Come on, really? That sort of baseless comment doesn’t support your argument it undermines it.

If I had nothing to do all day like Six Apart and write passive-aggressive comments and posts spun by marketing all over the blogosphere all day, instead of helping my business and community of users succeed everyday in a very real way, one would have to think about where all their clients and users are/have been going. I think it’s pretty obvious, don’t you?

Six Apart does all this with 100+ employees, and Automattic, with less than 20 employees, have really been giving them a run for their money. Bottom line is that Six Apart is pissed that such a small company can take down such a lumbering, grossly inefficient one.

And, I thought I’d mention that Anil’s site is down as I type this comment.

He should probably file a ticket with MT support, since he cannot fix that problem himself.

It’s ironic that you compare Automattic business model to MySQL since that is the same business model Six Apart is following with MT and that Matt and Lloyd Budd criticize 6A as not being sincere or real open source. I’m not saying you have to like either business model, but Automattic lashing out is the pot calling the kettle black.

@Rob Poitras

“WP and rails are still both 100% open source.”

Is 100% of the code behind Wordpress.COM open source though? As an outsider to that community its been very confusing to me. I understand .org is 100% opens source and GPL’ed. I understand wordpress.com is a hosted services. I also understand that Automattic holds controls (legal right) to the “WordPress” name (as a trademark? Unclear on this also.) If I wanted to create a wordpress.com clone today — could I do it? Is 100% of the code available and is it what I see at Wordpress.org. The way people site the way WordPress can thrash a server under load it seems like some major architectural changes and code had to be made. (This is similar to what happened with TypePad which began as MT and was modified for a massive distributed hosted environment.)

Couple that with Automattic controlling WordPress as it was its own
The same goes for DHH and rails, but WP and rails are still both 100% open source. Without leaders the software wouldn’t have grown.

Duncan, how about more original posts instead of responses to other peoples blog posts?

Please check out Graffiti - http://graffiticms.com

I am a developer on the project. It is super simple to use, yet elegant and poweful. V1 was just released last month, and some great plugins are being built right now. And with its plugin architecture, many don’t even need to hit the database as the necessary data is passed to them by Graffiti.

haven’t used cgi-bin for sooooo looooooong that even forgotton how it’s called!