Why Does All Blog Software Suck?
Why does all blog software suck? I don’t mean the server-side, like MT & WP, but rather the client side, the part in which one authors posts.
I’ve tried a few clients — iBlog, MarsEdit, etc. — but they all suck & only had a subset of usable features.
My wants seem pretty straight forward:
- WYSISWYG
- Reasonable keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-B to toggle bold, etc.)
- Spell checking
- Embed graphics & handle them intelligently (e.g., allow me to point the original source or copy them locally to someplace logical like
/blog/img.
- Save drafts
- Integrated publishing to my blogging platform (e.g., MT, WP)
None of this seems too demanding, especially by modern standards. For fuck’s sake, Microsoft Word has a theme functionality and a dancing paper clip. Is there something I’m missing or is there just no market for it?
August 14th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
I don’t know but I empathize. I actually don’t use any of those (I use the Web UI for WordPress), but I have really wanted to find a mobile blogging client for the Treo 650 and they all suck in one way or another. I’ve tried u*Blog, mo:Blog, HBlogger, VagaBlog, plogit, and had some problem with all of them. u*Blog is my current fave, but it has diffculties in navigating and with long titles.
August 14th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
and porn. where’s all the fucking porn? i clicked everywhere and all i get are these fucking blah blah blah. put some god damn slide shows up of like those japanese puke videos or something. you know who should have blog? dan casey. he wouldn’t complain about dancing paper clips. he would ask “have you ever put a paper clip up your ass?” now that’s content.
August 15th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Apparently Microsoft has a new blog client out… ;-)
August 16th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
W bloggar is pretty good, though unfortunately their website seems down. It was free, spell checking, good shortcuts, etc. I think the only thing it didn’t have (though I’m not sure) is embedded graphics.