DISQUS

echo "hey, it works" > /dev/null: What would make a WordPress geek go to Habari ? - echo "hey, it works" > /dev/null

  • Andy C · 10 months ago
    I like the pure unadulterated beauty of the blank canvas of the article editor.

    I like the people.

    I like living on the edge.
  • wilcosworld · 10 months ago
    I completely agree with the Community being a key feature of Habari- just a moment ago I shared a joke between two people- one is Jordan, the other is in Norway. This is due to a silly sense of humour, and a shared interest in Habari.
    Moreover, on more than one occasion I have Twittered "I want to be able to do *this* with Habari"- and within an hour, I've been sent a plugin to do exactly that... you don't get that with any other project.
  • Christian Mohn (h0bbel) · 10 months ago
    Norway? Hrm. Those people are weird!
  • Andy C · 10 months ago
    Jordan (Katie Price) uses Habari. Hurrah !

    This is akin to Stephen Fry using the legacy micro-blogging platform !
  • Christian Mohn (h0bbel) · 10 months ago
    She does? Do I want to know?
  • Christian Mohn (h0bbel) · 10 months ago
    Oh, doh. Yeah, I am that stopid. ;-)
  • Andrew Rickmann · 10 months ago
    I like the structure of it. For example, that the theme functions must be in a class. In particular I love how simple it is to discover things. When you need to know how to add a new post programatically you can just open the classes/post.php and the answer will be in that file. Once you understand how that works it makes developing much easier.
  • Rick Cockrum · 9 months ago
    I would add two more user-oriented reasons to user Habari rather than WordPress.

    First, it has support for multiple database backends, especially SQLite. The vast majority of blogs don't need to use a DBMS as resource intensive as MySQL. SQLite fits the bill perfectly here. It is fast enough for most blogs and backing up your blog's database is as easy as copying a file.

    Second, it is easy to run multiple blogs off one Habari installation. Want to start a new blog? Get your domain name, Create a directory with the the same name as the domain in your Habari user directory. Create a new config file. Then install the blog. From that point on there is only one install of Habari to maintain. Server space is saved. Maintenance is decreased.
  • Morydd · 9 months ago
    The biggest thing for me is that Habari offers a real community not just to the coders, but to the people who make everything else work as well. Contributions to the wiki, to documentation, and translation are actively encouraged. While it's still in early development, so code is driving a lot of what happens, we understand that coders are not the best designers or marketing people and we need those people too.

    And if you need convincing that the community really is passionate about what we're doing, just mention Habari on twitter and see what happens. (I suppose that's where this whole post started, isn't it?)