I really wanted to use MU, but I can't... They FORCE you to not use www urls; and with how I like how I have things setup I need them; I tried to weed them out through their coding, and i b0ged something...

:sigh:

well... i consider that a challenge

/me peeks under the MU code's hood

Yeh, I challange you!

I want to be able to set my url as:
http://www.undergroundnews.com/blogs/

And have it so members blogs are contained within, such as:
http://www.undergroundnews.com/blogs/gizmo/

get me conformity, and I'll love you :nods:...

they USED to just have it so the .htaccess file would redirect you to "non-www" urls, but they found out that users where "easily" defeating it, so they integrated it into the installer several ways as well as numerous areas throughout the script...

The problem here is, I force my users to use www urls; so when i hit these "nonwww" urls, they get redirected to the www, which redirects back... so problems arise where it times out lol...

BTW, I totally agree with "approving" and "recommending" standards; but forcing them down your users throat is crazy...

I've heard of many reasons many people use "www", and a main one being when univ's or org's use www for their internet and non-www for their intranet...

MT has had a multi-user feature for years

Allen true... there was always something about MT that i didn't like and i guess it's because i was finnicky ? :shrug:

But when i was in my 'read 100 blogs a day' mode, i saw a noticeable trend where users were moving away from MT to WP...

It could just be that i wasn't giving MT a fighting chance though..

The reason a lot moved from MT to Wp was that MT changed their licensing a while back (v3?) and began charging for the product - this created an uproar (the NERVE someone would want to make a living at what they're good at and had been giving away for years ). MT backed down and still offer it for free for non-commercial use, but a good number had already left by then...

Plus, it's still mostly perl, which isn't seen as cOoL by those who wanted php and now want ruby

cOoL <-- Allen, you are soooo web 2.0 with that

thanks for the info.. that makes sense!

'eh I just want something we can use and offer free to users; not like we make anything off of it lol... Just want conformity ...

I haven't got any blog yet, and I think it's time to get one.

Blog Fight! - MovableType and WordPress start throwing food and hissies

Wordpress 2.5 is being readied for release, quite a bit is new, including some major usability improvements with the help of Zeldman, Santa Maria, et al:

http://www.zeldman.com/2008/03/19/wordpress-2-5-preview/

is this comby possible yet?.. wordpress and ubb.

I don't think anyone is working on a bridge. ubb.threads 7.5 or so is supposed to have blogs built-in tho.

fingers crossed

I don't know that it's that difficult - it's really nothing more than a personal forum where one member can start new posts and others can reply - toss in some template changes and rename a few files and voila!