Chyrp theme development has been put on hold for some days, as Chyrp will be updated to PHP5 and PHP5 only.
None of the themes I will release for Chyrp will support IE6. There are enough of reason to upgrade to IE7 and if you can’t upgrade you should whether buy a legal Windows XP or not waste your valuable company time blogging.
Platforms such as Windows 2000 are not supported by MS anymore, there’s no reason to provide a backward compatibility for non-supported systems.
Period.
I could list many reasons why I have switched from WordPress to another platform, but the biggest annoyances were following:
The mix Automattic/WordPress confuses me. Although the whole wordpress.com platform, as marvelous as it is, totally falls within the GPL principles, I think a huge greyzone has grown around the business side of developing WordPress(.org). It is clear that every code change made to the WordPress(.org) change can directly be used by the Automattic team for their wordpress.com platform. Automattic themselves, maintain a stranglehold on the plugins and themes directory, with Matt Mullenweg actively demanding that everything is released under the GPL License.
WordPress is a solid platform and certainly has become very flexible and rather extensive. With a little of WordPress knowledge, you can build platforms as big and customized as you want. No limits are set, even not the sky. Suffice to visit All Things D to admire how customizable the platform is. All I want here is a blog.
I went ahead and deleted the WordPress installation and installed Chyrp. Note that this was a thing which had to happen, already last year I had a period I played here with MT, not to forget my several rants around the mentality, spirit of the closed garden that Automattic is.
I am looking forward to play around with Chyrp and prepare a new design, with more color than before, I might stick to my Cutline rotating header images tho. For now tho, I am happy that I am not on WordPress anymore.
Now I must play sleep.
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About Chyrp, WordPress and Early Adopterism
Some weeks ago I wrote about the reasons behind my switch from WordPress to Chyrp, but I had forgotten one aspect, I had made a huge error. Chyrp nowhere is in a state ready for prime time and that doesn’t concern the platform, the code behind chyrp.
The error I made was to jump on the bandwagon based on the technical aspect of the platform and even a small, but rather active community. Most important factor though, the main developer behind the platform, was an element I didn’t analyze well enough before making my choice and decision for Chyrp.
As beautiful as Chyrp may be, its problem lays in how Alex Suraci rushes, or not, things.
Alex is a talented coder and has built an awesome platform, but sadly his ambitions are too personal and too little focused on Chyrp for the lightweight blogging platform to become really successful. Alex is ambitious and as a young developer, constantly learning and discovering new coding languages. This sadly to the inconvenience of the Chyrp community and adopters. Some details: a PHP5 is coming… and pending. So is a Ruby port.
The community forums have been changed to a new, non Chyrp related, and unmoderated location at toogeneric. All in all Chyrp is a nice platform, one I will continue to watch, but for now the uncertainties made me switch back to good ol’ WordPress.
I should have known better being a regular early adopter.