Mephisto is an open source blogging software free for download and of course always open for people to contribute. What’s different from this blog than say Wordpress or any of the other big open source blogging platforms? Probably their philosophy. Here’s what it is:
“I wrote Mephisto with a basic idea that I had: the idea of articles belonging to multiple “buckets,” or “Sections” as Mephisto calls it. But, instead of accessing these sections like tags or categories, like other simple blog engines, they’re treated like first-class citizens of the site. “
That is slightly different from the other blogging open source platforms. Something interesting! And this difference in approach may be what you are looking for your business or concept in blogging. Who knows. Here are a list of features that they listed on their site:
- Beautiful admin interface
- Slick Asset Management
- Flexible Liquid templating system
- ATOM feeds
- some tagging, some ajax, yadda yadda.
- immature plugin API (+)
- converters for wordpress, typo, movable type (+)
- dodgy xml-rpc api support (+)
- lots and lots of ruby on rails codes (+)
I think this group has something pretty neat with their blogging platform but it definitely could use some help from other contributors. I am going to attempt to contribute as much as I can. If you any of you developers see this as a challenge that you would like to take have at it. It would be cool to build another powerhouse in the blogging spectrum.
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