Goodbye Habari
I've just switched skippy.net over to Habari, and I'm already sick of it. I know there are bugs in all software -- especially alpha software like Habari -- but this is beyond the pale. I can't get the list of pages to sort in alphabetical order, for example. I mean, that's such a basic, trivial aspect of output that I shouldn't need to spend any time on it!
Habari is also wildly complicated compared to everything else (except maybe Drupal). There are up to five levels of abstraction, making you search through class file after class file to figure out what happens where. Oh sure, Owen was able to produce recent comments in 7 lines of code, but he's a maniac programmer. The average blogger is never going to be able to do that. I wrote the bulk of the multi-site system for Habari, modeled closely after Drupal's, but the inability to use a single user table between sites is a tremendous shortcoming. That deficiency means I won't be able to use Habari for my kids' blogs.
Just as soon as I can, I'm going to install and configure ForkPress. Owen has graciously allowed me to glom onto his project, and I'm excited to spend some time focusing on my new passion: K3! I'm going to take a break from all of this PHP and try my hand at CSS.
First Owen, and now you.
As I said over on Owen's site, I would have really preferred some warning from you guys before you jumped ship.
I hope that you find the new projects more conducive to your happiness.
Well, nice going, Mr. Skippy. I wonder when you'll jump ship to the *next* big thing. Hope your ForkPress friends know just *how* Skippy you are!
Oh, and that K3 thing is a stupid idea. No one wants blue! Olive green is the new black!!
lol @ K3
I do have one gripe though, there's too little blue.
And also, why does the world need *another* forum software? I mean, come on, there is bbPress already! Why do you people feel the need to rewrite *everything*?!
Um... before you guys go biting Skip's head off - I'd like to point out that it *is* April Fools Day, k?
Unless you were all aware of that and your responses are even more sophisticated April Fools jokes in reply - if that's the case I feel dumb for pointing this out. ;)
Happy April Fools Day!