It's been since October with these Habari people, and I'm totally through. It's not worth it any more.
Day after ceaseless day, the agony of having decisions by committee... It's finally gotten the best of me. I thought I could handle it, but it's just not working out.
The latest straw to break this camel's back is the rush to release the Developer Review. I'm not sure what the all-fired hurry is to release software that is obviously not ready for prime time. Nevermind that we could have released at the end of January had we not wasted all of our time bickering over logos, default themes, HTML vs XHTML, and other irrelevant claptrap. 100+ messages about whether Habari should use HTML or XHTML. I mean, is that really necessary?
People have questioned whether the team could really pull off the release, and I told them, "No, no, we've got a great team. We'll release something soon." And I said that every day for months, and nothing happened. And then, out of the blue, they want to release this codeset? Forget it!
Well, clearly, I can't use WordPress any more, and I can't use Habari, so my only other option is to go it alone. So, here's my big news...
I've been working on a separate project for a few weeks now, but I haven't said anything because I hadn't really committed to it. But I've finally had enough, and I'm ready to announce it and maybe throw off those Habarians' developer release. My solution is more robust than Habari simply because I've not had to put up with the committee approval on every decision.
I've gotten a couple of folks to fly my banner, including skippy, and we've set up more support for our users in two weeks than Habari has even considered since October.
So, I'm kind of sad to see Habari go, but I'm glad to be rid of the bureaucracy. I hope people are as welcoming to ForkPress as they might have been to poor, doomed Habari.
Brilliant. ;-)
tee-hee, ForkPress.
:D .. We aint gonna buy this .. :D .. Even if you sell it for free .. :P
Best of luck for your ForkPress ... :)
No offense, but I think I'd change the name. If there is so much as one little teeny weeny bug that causes grief to the masses, people will rename it for you in every post they make...F-ckPress.
Just my two cents...Good luck with the effort regardless of the name :-)
Shall I tell them? No...
No, let 'em be.
I hate this day of the year.
Luckily this day only comes around once a year ....... :)
ForkPress. It sounds like a weight watchers gym team.
But for some reason something doesn't seem quite right... What could it be... ?
LOL :mrgreen:
I was like, what the heck is ForkPress ... but then I remembered...
April Fool?
You know, you could have given us a little more warning about this. I am sorry to see you go, but I would rather you be doing something you believe in.
Oh and I agree with Don, change the name.
Brilliant. Hehehehe.
april fool!
lolx.... hahas... tell me its another AF joke...
Spectacular.
so nice to have skippy in your team too.
Will it be able to handle what WPMU can a month after today?
April Forks.
I agree with Don, you'll get slammed every time there are bugs and issues with ForkPress. Change it now before too many people get used to the name.
How about yapPress? Yet-Another-Press Press :-)
I hope you're happy now.
I see that on the Forkpress site, there's also a bbq-press.
Could you tell us more about that one, please?
will there be more culinary releases? Winepress? Coffeepress (running on Java, of course) FastFoddPress? Wurstpress (German edition)? Maybe one every April 1st?
Looking forward to further enhancements and the oncoming plug-ins (bbq-sauce, soup-spoon...?).
Your sidebar still says you're coding "the software that displays it", and links to Habari. Might wanna change that.
Is this an april's fool joke?
I hope this is a clever April Fool's Joke.
Clearly you've given this a lot of thought. Normally I throw my prodigious weight of support behind products with a cool logo, so - count me in.
Has everybody noticed the date?
I'll help with forkpress.
Too bad I'm going to get fired tomorrow. :(
I love the K3 theme, although maybe if the header were just a leetle bit... bigger? And bluer. Yes, bluer.
Is this for April Fools? :-)
Why does everyone hate Wordpress? BBQPress?
I would be more intrigued if this had been posted yesterday or tomorrow. Well done. ;-)
Am I the only one who........
????
If HTML/XHTML contiues to be an issue, I suggest creating a platform that can output both, if only in a half-functional way, and name it SporkPress...
Happy April Fool's day to you too!
Man...you had me hook line and sinker for a good 5 minutes. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Above and beyond the other AFD jokes out there, as you clearly put a lot of thought and effort into it. Well done. A+.
sounds good, but i'm holding out for sporkpress
Arrrggghhh! April Fool! I read this in the morning and spent all day obsessing about the Habari Schism (as it will come to be known!)
It's only just crossed my mind what day it is.....
@ Diana:
Yes! We need more blue!
April's Fool?
Gotta love a week's investment for April's Fool tho.
Me love some bbqpress and 20 million downloads. :)
I love the site of Forkpress so professional hahahahahaha
Quite impressive number of downloads already! :-D
ForkPress: When you just want to say "Fork it all anyway."
Who gives a fork?
A plugin for "Gmail paper" would be a great addition to ForkPress ;)
Love the logo, it's like "fork meets shirukan", all the better to attack habari users with, eh? ;)
I'm still waiting for WordPattern....
*hee*
That was the best jock for 1th of April :D
You get the yellow T-shirt!
âpril fool!
April Fool?
Y'know, this would be a lot easier to swallow if your blogging setup supported showing archives by date...
*grin*
I was about to say.... new thing!:D But ah well hehe...
I was right