Turning LSQL (or GForum, as raised in this thread) into a blogging tool has also been an idea I have played with.
Being a blogger myself, I do see a lot of challenges here, however. It's hard to explain exactly what makes a good blogging tool, but so far, I haven't been able to make LSQL a good blogging tool. I think LSQL in many ways is a bad blogging tool because it's too complex and powerful
I prefer to use a state-of-the art dedicated blogging tool (MT) for my blog - it does exactly what it sets out to do, and does it very good. But it has many limitations, one of which is its poor scalability. I use it to run around 20 blogs (only 3 active) with one installation, and don't think I want to it it much further. I know they're working on a hosted blog service, but also that they got a chunck of rare VC going to realise this.
Speaking of blogging, I have used several ideas and innovations that have come out of the blogging movement - such as XML syndication and publishing bookmarklets - with LSQL. Rather than making LSQL into a blogging tool per se, I think it is more interesting to look at what blogging technology can do for LSQL. More concretely, I'd love to be able to have LSQL do trackback pings, autodiscovery, and much more.
Oh, another thing LSQL or rather this community could learn from the blogging world is the use/development of plugins. Here, almost all plugins are commercial, but in the blogging world, most if not all are free.
John
Being a blogger myself, I do see a lot of challenges here, however. It's hard to explain exactly what makes a good blogging tool, but so far, I haven't been able to make LSQL a good blogging tool. I think LSQL in many ways is a bad blogging tool because it's too complex and powerful
I prefer to use a state-of-the art dedicated blogging tool (MT) for my blog - it does exactly what it sets out to do, and does it very good. But it has many limitations, one of which is its poor scalability. I use it to run around 20 blogs (only 3 active) with one installation, and don't think I want to it it much further. I know they're working on a hosted blog service, but also that they got a chunck of rare VC going to realise this. Speaking of blogging, I have used several ideas and innovations that have come out of the blogging movement - such as XML syndication and publishing bookmarklets - with LSQL. Rather than making LSQL into a blogging tool per se, I think it is more interesting to look at what blogging technology can do for LSQL. More concretely, I'd love to be able to have LSQL do trackback pings, autodiscovery, and much more.
Oh, another thing LSQL or rather this community could learn from the blogging world is the use/development of plugins. Here, almost all plugins are commercial, but in the blogging world, most if not all are free.
John
