Blogging Software Faceoff

15th of July, 2006

While I love Wordpress to bits, I’ve never tried anything else. But why fix what’s not broken? It’s much the same as me never having tried anything else at Subway because I just love the meatball so much, I don’t want to risk getting something I won’t like when I know I like the meatball and can have it.

So I’ve decided to try them all at once, there were a few conditions, it had to be free and self-hosted. Here’s what I’m testing:

To make it a little more interesting for you all, I’ve uploaded and installed all of them on fightingfriends, not only so you can see the default front end but I’ve created open user accounts so you can all have fun with the back ends, the important part! So here’s the details for all that:

Well, seeing as though that took almost all day to upload and install all those I’m going to have to wait until later to write about them all. I sure have a lot to write about, some installation procedures were much (much) easier than others. Some came with a million languages pre-installed in a massive mess of language packages. I’ll write about it all later. I’ve barely even tested any of them myself.

For now, have a play with those.