Minxing Once More

I give up.

I've tried Expression Engine. I've tried Wordpress. I've tried Nucleus and Mambo and Drupal and Postnuke. I've installed blogging packages in phpBB. I've looked at Textpattern and Slash and b2Evolution and a dozen other things that I've happily forgotten. I've messed around with Perl and Pike and PHP and Ruby, with MySQL and SQLite and Postregresql and Firebird.

And I hate them all. (Where's that evil smiley when I need it?)

They all work, it's just that none of them work the way I want. No one package supports all the features we need, and the different packages don't inter-operate well enough to be used together. Plus they're ugly and their mothers dress them funny. (Most of them are written in PHP and use SQL databases. It's a hideous combination for all its popularity.)

Meanwhile, I've resolved all the problems that stopped development of Minx this time last year. I've partly solved the issues with the Metakit database, and there is an all new but fully compatible database under active development.

As far as I can see, and I've really looked, no-one has or is developing the software we need to run mu.nu. So I'm back to writing it myself. Minxing once more...