After one of my wordpress blog posts received over 50,000 hits in an hour
and my host's server failed to keep up I realized that I need to go with a
lightweight blogging engine and Habari is an excellent piece of kit. I
really do like customizing everything myself as it allows me to create a
much leaner blog than I could using wordpress.
I am listing things I find frustrating because they are obvious barriers to
user take-up. I am capable of contributing myself but I figured that the
middle of a migration is the best time to stop and take stock of my
thoughts as these things are barriers to user take-up. Everything works and
is very fast but here are my gripes:
- The Wordpress importer doesn't import images or videos so post image
links are still pointing to their old URLs. This means that after importing
I need to:
i. Download the images from their old site.
ii. Upload them to my new site.
iii. Change the image & video URLs.
- No HTML5 video plugin (with swf fallback), it seems like the silo plugins
all use flash.
- No Lightbox plugin.
- The recent comments block simply lists usernames and post titles. This
means that if I publish a new post then the same URL is listed a bunch of
times in the sidebar. Options to display username, post title and x
characters from comment would be perfect.
- The silo plugins insert [almost] invalid paths e.g.
http://beta.flailingmonkey.com/user/files/./freedom.jpg - of course,
relative URLs would be best.
- http://habariproject.org/ has a heckuvalot of broken links, especially on
the wiki but I can see that there have been changes over the last couple of
days, great job.
- It would be great if there was some kind of lazy loading system where js
and css files could be combined plus js files could be optionally lazy
loaded.
- The disqus plugin seems to be broken for me, probably because my comments
include has a different name ... this is one of the main plugins that
people may want to use. In the end I decided against using it because we
can use our own anti-spam plugins.
- It is very hard to find compatible plugins. Maybe the plugin xml files
should include min/max version numbers?
- It is very frustrating finding out which plugin to use e.g. does it work
with my version, what does it do (not always obvious by the name), is there
any user feedback, are there any known issues, reviews etc.
Of course, when I have finished migrating I will push my plugin changes
etc. to their appropriate locations and blog about my experience.
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