wrotit status update

09:40PM Jan 08, 2008 in category General by David King

(as always, cross-posted to wrotit)

It looks like Wrotit will devolve into a more generic blogging engine. It won't lose most of its social features (although I'll have to re-decide what those are going to look like; I'm open to suggestions), but I didn't clean up the popularity daemon into a permanent state on time, and I won't be able to do further work on it, so it will lose its current feel.

The popularity daemon had some pretty critical bugs (for instance, there are some circumstances in which voting down an already unpopular article can slightly increase its popularity) that I was in the process of fixing, that I just won't fix in time to declare the code "finished". So the popularity ranking (a la reddit/Digg) won't exist, and it won't have a recommendations system (which is also not in a usable state). It looks like I'll be able to preserve the more technical parts without any trouble, but you probably don't care about those

While I won't be open-sourcing the whole thing in one swoop, I'm happy to entertain questions about how something works.

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