Wanted: Victims Guinea Pigs Adventurous Souls

I'm looking for a few people interested in trying out a new blogging system - LifeType.

I've set it up at my.mu.nu. At the moment, blogs there will appear at my.mu.nu/blog/blogname or my.mu.nu/user/username, such as my.mu.nu/blog/trixielicious, my grand-daughter Trixie's new blog, which also appears at my.mu.nu/user/trixie. It can also be set up to provide proper subdomains like trixie.mu.nu, but I haven't done that yet.

It's got lots and lots of features, which makes the user interface a bit confusing, but that can be tweaked. (In fact, it can be changed completely; the user interace is templated just like the blogs.)

This is the closest thing I've seen to what we need here at mu.nu (apart from Expression Engine, which we're not allowed to use due to licensing restrictions). LifeType on the other hand is open source, and we can use it any way we want.

If you'd like to play around with it, leave a comment here or email me.

By the way, it's worth mentioning that (with the raft of plugins I've installed), LifeType's anti-spam features include Bayesian filtering, captchas, forced moderation, open relay blacklists, hidden input fields, trackback validation, the rel/nofollow thing, and host and content blacklists. All of which can be turned on or off for each blog.