Comments on: WordPress is The Most Innovative Open Source Platform Yet Part 2

By: jgovernor

jgovernor — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:39:22 +0000

thanks Matt. What can I say - you’re making life better for a lot of people.

Mike Dolan and Jay Pullur - rock on guys.

Ian Skerret- what did we tell you?

Chris- I wonder if you could suggest working with CommunityServer to better integrate with external APIs?

Mike Gotta - Traction is cool, and I can see a real utility. But it doesn’t have the community or extensibility of Wordpress.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:01:29 +0000

I appreciate the kind words.

By: Mike Dolan

Mike Dolan — Wed, 09 May 2007 00:05:24 +0000

+1 James. I wrote my own blog/site system and used it for quite some time. Once I tested WordPress, the idea of ever going back was gone. I can get thousands of spams in a month and Akismet catches most of them… that’s a lot of time saved - heck, I would have in the alternative just turned off commenting altogether.

By: Jay Pullur

Jay Pullur — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:26:56 +0000

I agree with Andy. Akismet does a wonderful job on filtering. I have checked several times in the spam bin and found it to be waste of time digging through it. Overall, Wordpress is great.

By: Chris Dalby

Chris Dalby — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:34:20 +0000

What I would like to see is a .NET community platform that ticks all the technical boxes, but also allows integration with all the best community features like flickr, delicious, technorati, feedburner, last.fm. etc.

Name the top 10 blog platforms, and a .NET system would not be there.

By: Ian Skerrett

Ian Skerrett — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:04:46 +0000

I agree Wordpress and Akismet rock! I am sooooo glad to be off of Blogger.

By: Mike Gotta

Mike Gotta — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:15:19 +0000

James, Although not an open source platform, you might check out Traction Software - comprehensive hypertext underpinnings. Also hear good things about blogs and Drupal from clients who are using open source and want synergies between their blog decision and overall ECm efforts.

By: andyp

andyp — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:05:02 +0000

Indeed. Akismet has caught so much spam for me that I don’t bother to check for false positives now, it would be too hard to identify them