As you may or may not know, I’m now part of the core development committee of Habari. Habari is a next generation blogging platform written in object-oriented PHP using the model view controller design pattern. There, enough buzzwords?
Not having to support a huge installed codebase with a lot of legacy, we have a chance to “do things right” with Habari. Using MVC is certainly a good start, as is using PDO (now programming SQL injections takes effort). But the nicest codebase still doesn’t make a good product …
… which is why I’m asking you all:
- What does a blogging platform absolutely need to do for you?
- What would be really useful features to you?
- How are you, personally, using your current platform?
Please feel free to write lengthy comments, send me mail, etc.
We are currently aiming for a developers preview release at the end of month, but there’s still a lot of work left to do. If you’re interested, have a look at the mailing lists, or just drop by on IRC, in #Habari on irc.freenode.net.
I want it to make toast and tea for me in the morning, but then stay out of the way when I actually start to write on the blog.
We need Ninjas.
Better image handling! Mine’s too complicated. It inserts it at a default size, and I have to mess around with it until it looks just right. Be nice if it could have pre-defined settings that insert a picture which fits the width of the blog without me having to guess and fiddle around…
Just saying..
Jen, have a look at Michael Heilemann’s Habari Media Manager sketch. It’s pretty.
Hey, that looks really nice. What about small and convenient effects like mouseovers? Are there any cool built-in features planned for Habari? You know how they are supposed to work from my site… 😉
Or… well… How I’d like them to work at least.
Do you mean mouseovers as in the CSS :hover pseudoclass, or those little tree controls you got on your site? I think the latter is impossible to do without JavaScript. In any case, that’s a Theme thing IMO.
I meant the first one, my not so standard mouse-over tool tips. I wouldn’t want to do without them if I changed to a real blogging framework. 🙂
Hey Matt, I just followed your advice and got a new blog. In english and at wordpress. The layout is not the best and it wont get any better because I’m just tooo lazy to get a better one. So, amigo, please change the link here =] AAAAnd, another thing, how do I get these clouds stuffs? I want one too 🙁 =]
Sooooo…. how do I convert from wordpress to Habari? That media manager is sweeet!
Do you know that I have to click on ‘track this conversation’ to actually post something? Otherwise I get a ‘could not process submit’ error…
Habari is quite some way from being ready for primetime, and the media manager is but a mockup at this stage.Once it’s done, though, … we got a WordPress importer 😉
I can’t reproduce the coComment bug. If you get it again, can you please note the error message?
So if I hit ‘submit’ right away, I get : Could not process submit, please try again
If I check ‘track this conversation and click on the link ‘learn more’, then there’s a message saying ‘submitting to server’ and it works. Of course then I have to bother with a pop containing the ‘learn more’ stuff…
Better third party tool support for stuff like Ecto. Spending 3 hours for every WP point release getting Ecto and UTW working is a nightmare.
Take UTW, rewrite from ground up and include in core. Tags are too important to be left to one person to develop.