Ask YC: What Blogging Software do you use?

by dawie on 4/25/2008, 12:39 AM with 22 comments

If your blogging software is mentioned, vote for it otherwise add it to the list.

  • by bkbleikamp on 4/25/2008, 1:01 AM

    I have used WordPress(.org) & MoveableType.

    Of the two WordPress is by far my favorite. The caching helps it scale nearly as well as MoveableType and there are a lot more themes, a ton of plugins, and a very active community to help with anything you need.

    Also WP is written with PHP and is a breeze to setup. MT is Perl and most people who aren't hackers tend to get scared away from the config files.

  • by Milansoc15 on 4/25/2008, 1:20 AM

    I use blogger with my own domain. Started the blog as part of a college class, use it more for personal stuff now

  • by JulianMontez on 4/25/2008, 1:18 AM

    Using Chyrp http://chyrp.net/ . Nice open-source tumblelog software. :)

  • by cperciva on 4/25/2008, 12:56 AM

    I wrote my own shell script for taking a directory containing posts and rendering my blog.

  • by brlewis on 4/25/2008, 3:06 AM

    OurDoings (my own). It started out as a photo-sharing site, but it grew into blogging. It now integrates with Disqus for comments and Technorati for trackbacks. It also integrates with FriendFeed (ff) using a push system that automatically includes thumbnails of photos related to your posts. In this way it's better than letting ff pull from your blog's feed, because media RSS is not yet supported by ff.

  • by generalk on 4/25/2008, 2:03 AM

    Using Wordpress right now (voted for that one) but I'm looking strongly at Mephisto. Written in Rails and has a badass name? Sign me up!

  • by apgwoz on 4/25/2008, 2:16 AM

    a custom built django application powers photub.com.

  • by borga on 4/25/2008, 3:30 PM

    Wordpress, but I used MT in the past. I prefer Wordpress due to the amount of nice add-ons, themes, etc that are available.

  • by azsromej on 4/25/2008, 4:22 AM

    I wrote my own, but I did end up copying 2 functions from WordPress (wpautop and some kses input stuff).

  • by jrockway on 4/25/2008, 3:52 AM
  • by 1gor on 4/25/2008, 8:03 AM

    RapidWeaver on mac os x. (Similar to MovableType but less hassle).

  • by Readmore on 4/25/2008, 1:33 AM

    Wrote my own with Rails.

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  • by BostonDave on 4/25/2008, 11:02 AM

    Wordpress (huge fan) but also considering Drupal as well.

  • by bigtoga on 4/25/2008, 12:52 AM

    Blogger for personal, Typepad for business.

  • by Mrinal on 4/25/2008, 1:17 AM

    Typepad for business and Vox for personal

  • by wastedbrains on 4/25/2008, 1:53 AM

    Movable Type

  • by mattdennewitz on 4/25/2008, 1:09 PM

    writing ones own blogging software has become a "coming of age" experience anymore :)

  • by cmm324 on 4/25/2008, 3:09 AM

    blogger for personal and corporate

  • by izak30 on 4/25/2008, 1:35 AM

    Servee(.com)

  • by jamesbritt on 4/25/2008, 2:02 AM

    Mephisto

  • by khangtoh on 4/25/2008, 2:02 AM

    memphisto