Let me just say, I love that wordpress (WP) is open source, I love the plugin’s and I enjoy the community. These are the strengths which motivated me to join the WP community and use the software on all my sites, however, there are a couple major issues I have as a mature user.
Communication with us normal users (part geek, part human), the group that enjoy a challenge but aren’t enthusiastic with constant challenge.
I don’t like that podcasting isn’t built in, that ajax has only recently found a place as part of the core install, that the Admin interface is always so impossibly slow (admittedly it did get better w/ release 2.1) and why can’t the software auto-update. It is so so very trying to upgrade over and over.
You have to back up everything, download this, update that, etc. A blogger spends at least half his time taking care of IT stuff. A friend of mine Brendan (Slacker Manager) listed as one of his reasons for leaving 9Rules (a blog network) to b5Media was that he maintained his own blog.
Now Brendan and I haven’t ever gotten into intense detail about our IT backgrounds but on the surface we don’t appear to be materially different and I think since I don’t have b5Media backing me up I may just have to switch.
You may wonder ‘Roger, its not like you have published often lately’ well to be honest at least 50% of the reason is because I have so much work to do on my blog that it was just wearing me out. Its a distraction all this fussing, and my site only looks poorer for it.
Anyway I am sure I will piss off more than a few with my opinions on WP, but I don’t think I am alone. I am only on WP even now because the hosting services until just recently haven’t been good enough to take over.
The services I am looking most closely at are Typepad, TeraPad, and Wordpress.com (WP’s hosted solution)
What about you? Are you ever tempted to leave the WP nest? Do you use another provider? Any suggestions?
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Marcus Greenwood 02.28.07 at 3:53 pm
You know you want to use Webjam, Roger
Obviously we’re not yet as mature a blogging platform as any of the sites you mention but you’ll be part of something that will be really great in a few months time! And all the gripes or features that you are talking about are either there already (ajaxy features, slick interface) or will soon be on the horizon (podcasting built into the blog engine). Plus we’re a whole lot more too (social networking, community features, photos, media etc) - but you already know that
Make sure you check out the updates we’ve been making over the past few months.
cheers
Marcus
http://www.webjam.com
http://www.chickerino.com
Marcus Greenwood 02.28.07 at 3:53 pm
You know you want to use Webjam, Roger
Obviously we're not yet as mature a blogging platform as any of the sites you mention but you'll be part of something that will be really great in a few months time! And all the gripes or features that you are talking about are either there already (ajaxy features, slick interface) or will soon be on the horizon (podcasting built into the blog engine). Plus we're a whole lot more too (social networking, community features, photos, media etc) - but you already know that
Make sure you check out the updates we've been making over the past few months.
cheers
Marcus
http://www.webjam.com
http://www.chickerino.com
Roger Kondrat 03.01.07 at 10:54 am
Hey Marcus
Thanks for dropping in and reminding me :))
Sounds like many upgrades and improvements have been made. I always thought webjam was a good product and recommend that my readers take a look for sure.
I will check it out again Marcus and see what is new.
Cheers
Roger Kondrat 03.01.07 at 10:54 am
Hey Marcus
Thanks for dropping in and reminding me :))
Sounds like many upgrades and improvements have been made. I always thought webjam was a good product and recommend that my readers take a look for sure.
I will check it out again Marcus and see what is new.
Cheers
Kate Allan 03.02.07 at 12:57 pm
I’m not a teccie but I moved from Blogger to Wordpress as there were fundamental feed problems with a Blogger blog I had which no one seemed to be able to give me a clue how to resolve. I like Wordpress and would recommend it to other non teccies as you can get a decent looking, functional blog out of it without too much effort.
Kate Allan 03.02.07 at 12:57 pm
I'm not a teccie but I moved from Blogger to Wordpress as there were fundamental feed problems with a Blogger blog I had which no one seemed to be able to give me a clue how to resolve. I like Wordpress and would recommend it to other non teccies as you can get a decent looking, functional blog out of it without too much effort.
Kate Allan 03.02.07 at 12:58 pm
I forgot to say I’m on Wordpress.com. Really not bad considering it is all free.
Kate Allan 03.02.07 at 12:58 pm
I forgot to say I'm on Wordpress.com. Really not bad considering it is all free.
Roger Kondrat 03.02.07 at 2:42 pm
Yeah,
I have used Wordpress.com as a private blog for a few months now. Definitely a good product.
I may start using and migrate everything to it and when I decide I need more I can always move back to Wordpress.org.
I have to say the ability to import and export is a wonderful, wonderful feature of Wordpress hosted or self-hosted version.
Thanks Kate. :))
Roger Kondrat 03.02.07 at 2:42 pm
Yeah,
I have used Wordpress.com as a private blog for a few months now. Definitely a good product.
I may start using and migrate everything to it and when I decide I need more I can always move back to Wordpress.org.
I have to say the ability to import and export is a wonderful, wonderful feature of Wordpress hosted or self-hosted version.
Thanks Kate. :))
BlogSport 05.29.07 at 9:59 am
Wordpress is nice. It’s a bit more flexible than blogspot thats for sure.
Lol
BlogSport 05.29.07 at 10:59 am
Wordpress is nice. It's a bit more flexible than blogspot thats for sure.
Lol