ExpressionEngine is a new high-end blogging package from the folk who wrote pMachine. It looks like it does most of the things I'm planning for Minx.
I'm going to download the beta and give it a whirl. It's commercial software, but it's priced per-installation rather than per-blog, so one copy would do for all of Mu.Nu.
If it looks good to me I'll ask a couple of you guys to give it a try as well.
Meanwhile, I'm doing some performance tests on MT to see if I can work out why it is so darn slow. 'Cause that's really the only problem I have with it. Some tests I ran last night, importing all of Ambient Irony on my home mail server (a little Celeron box) showed absurd levels of I/O activity. That might be MT, or it mught be related to using Berkeley DB as the storage system. I'm going to try it again this weekend with PostgreSQL.
Apart from that, I have... Seven? Eight? Nine? Ten? More blogs to set up, and I need to dig out my Blog-city -> MT file converter that I wrote long ago.
Next week won't be too busy, and after that I'm off work for ten days, so some concentrated MuNuing is coming up!
Posted by Pixy Misa at April 2, 2004 12:22 AMDearest, sweetest Pixy Misa--if you dig out the blog-city converter, may I please ask you to bring my old files over, too? Pleeeease?
Posted by Jennifer at April 2, 2004 02:13 AMPixy...by any chance are any of those blogs you have left to set up Paul from Light and Dark?
He definitely wants to come over. He said he's emailed ya, but I've got his if ya want it...home phone number, too, for that matter.
I so don't wanna see him lost in the rush...lol.
Hugs and thanks again!
Oh yeah...and which one of these excellent new blogs is Margi?
I seem to have lost her...(which is what put me in the mind of not losing Paul, too....lol)
Oh MARGI, Darlin'!!!
Where is you?!?
Yep, Paul's been in touch and I'll be getting him set up soon.
Margi? Margi who? No Margis here. 
(I'll let you guess. 
)
Re: Paul....EXCELLENT!!!!
Re: Whom?...siiigh. (lol)
I'll find 'er.
Eventually.
(lmao)
I'm lookin', Lovely Lady...I'm-a lookin'....
Posted by Stevie at April 2, 2004 09:12 AMWell, Expression Engine isn't the answer. I think it's designed more for corporate sites.
It's nice and fast at updating, but relatively slow at actually delivering pages. Which isn't good. You can turn on caching to speed things up, but the cache doesn't update automatically when you post a new entry, which is just plain dumb.
Back to Minx...
Posted by Pixy Misa at April 4, 2004 03:36 PM