WordPress: The cheerful opportunist, and others waiting in the wings

[foxfirefey]

When LJ went though its grim staff purge at the start of January, WordPress made a post with instructions on how to import from LJ (LiveJournal Migration Made Easy). After January ended, they observed that 7,111 blogs had been imported, despite the clunkiness of the process (January Wrap Up). Apparently the demand inspired them to make a much

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[rosicrucian]

I have been so excited about DW. I can't wait to be able to beta test it.

Also, inksome is becoming very popular as an alternative.

[azurelunatic]

Kit is good people.

[foxfirefey]

I AM BETA TESTING IT, WOO. And running the wiki! And I just registered memewidth.org!

Inksome is still getting off the ground--they currently have 3459 active users with posters at 1268 for the past month and 540 for the past week. IJ is still the LJ Clone juggernaut. And I also I think I've heard that at some point, Inksome will be switching to the DW codebase. I think switching is going to do any clone a world of good, in terms of bugfixes, documentation, and upgrades, not to mention a stronger open source community. Squeaky might want to consider it, if he can. It'd be nice if the JournalFen people could, too--DW already has a working built in invite and pay system included.

[janinedog]

What's memewidth.org going to be used for?

[foxfirefey]

Brainstorming about it here!