Oh yeah, and I've read about the Movable Type licensing fiasco. I'm not concerned with what they legally "can" do (it's their software, they can blah blah blah), but their hubris offends me. I would immediately change engines if I weren't lazy and/or busy, but as is as soon as I have need to change or upgrade (like when they decide that I'll have to pay them for the copy I'm running now) I've given some thought to rolling my own like Jon.
If so, one cool idea I've thought up (no I haven't researched to see if it's been done) is to make an RSS feed of every reply to every comment by each username that posts comments. Thus a person can easily subscribe to an RSS of all of the comments in reply to their comments. That would be tight :)
If I get comment spammers that could increase the garbage but if I get them, I'd probably whip together a simple setup where you have to acquire a login username and password, but skip the email step and just have a bot-filter. You know, like yahoo's "type the word you see in this farked image" but probably orders of magnitude simpler, like text-based. Since it's custom nobody will write a script to defeat it, even if it would take half an hour, and I'd be able to easily delete the username and ban the IP of any crackheads so it would be a big hassle for them to create accounts by hand. It would be like a car door lock, or zip encryption, or WEP :) And I wouldn't bother until the spammers came knocking.
Posted by jesse at May 20, 2004 05:45 PMA hell, maybe I'll just stick with Movable type, throw up some google ads in a very prominant place, and thumb my nose purposefully at their joke of a licence :] If they contact me and tell me to stop using their software, I'll make a big stick about it so people compare them with the RIAA on my new custom blog with better features.
Posted by: Jesse Thompson at May 21, 2004 12:10 PM