WordPress, one of the other blogging systems I follow (and host), has gone from 1.2 to 1.5 today. The version number jump was well reasoned.
The new version comes with plenty of new features: improved comment moderation, manage page (non-journal content; e.g. "about me"), a dashboard, and the code base shrank in size (following their "Code is Poetry" mantra).
I've pondered switching Ben's Friends over to WordPress. The only hold up is that lack of support for multiple blogs (which is a rather pivital problem). You can technically only run one blog per WP installation/database. There are ways to hack it to work with more, but then you're stuck with nasty upgrade/patch problems down the road. Official multiblog functionallity is planned, but it won't likely happen until 2.0 is released (no date given that I know of). We'll see.
The WP developers are all rather well known, standards focused kind of folk, so their in product is definitely one of the best blogging software packages available.
Posted by TheIdeaMan at February 17, 2005 04:43 PM | TrackBack